1944
Oil on panel
102 x 77 cm
The Harris, Preston, Lancashire
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Aka: D-Day, Reconstruction - Bombed Cathedral [Art UK]; Bombed Cathedral
WW2 WWII World War 2 World War II architecture attack bombed building burning cathedral city crucifix fire flames public collection raid ruins smoke topographical view turban war war artist wartimeRight-hand panel of a triptych. Full set shown in related images panel below.
Links to each entry:
- Battleships at Sea
- Beach Landing
- Bombed Cathedral
From the Richard Eurich interview by James Mellen done in 1978 for the Imperial War Museum "Artists in an Age of Conflict" series of sound recordings
". . . it’s very difficult to do a thing of D-Day. I made a sort of triptych of it. The centre portion is about 9 feet and depicts men running ashore on Normandy beach. And the side pictures which are smaller, though the depth is the same, depict a bombardment from the sea, the initial bombardment which covered the landing, and the one the other side is the destruction of Caen and places …From the Richard Eurich interview by James Mellen done in 1978 for the Imperial War Museum "Artists in an Age of Conflict" series of sound recordings
". . . it’s very difficult to do a thing of D-Day. I made a sort of triptych of it. The centre portion is about 9 feet and depicts men running ashore on Normandy beach. And the side pictures which are smaller, though the depth is the same, depict a bombardment from the sea, the initial bombardment which covered the landing, and the one the other side is the destruction of Caen and places like that, which had to be unfortunately, for the troops to make an advance and to liberate Paris.’
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