The Hammock - with acknowledgements to Wadsworth (c1943)
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The Hammock - with acknowledgements to Wadsworth

c1943

Oil on gesso on (plywood) panel
25 x 35 cm

With Dreweatts Auctioneers (as of March 2024)

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Recto: Not signed or dated

Verso: Signed on frame: R. EURICH; Thomas Agnew label no. 47432; Fine Art Society label with title 'The Hammock - with acknowledgements to Wadsworth', dated November 1983; label of unknown origin with same title.

Other measurements: 25 x 35 cm; 25.5 x 35cm [Dreweatts]

France Le Havre French flag Wadsworth anchor berth bridge hammock harbour old woman passenger ship quayside sailor steamship young man

This painting is a pastiche of a picture by Edward Wadsworth with whom Richard had a long correspondence.

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During what were for him the often dull days of the war (he had no work as a War Artist to preoccupy him), Edward Wadsworth suggested that he and Eurich painted, purely as a wartime pastime, versions of each other’s paintings. He picked Eurich’s Mousehole, Cornwall (1938), now in the collection of Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service, while his correspondent chose to paint a version of Wadsworth’s Le Havre (Basin de l’Eure), 1939, in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Towards the end of October 1942, Eurich wrote in his diary: ‘Started a small painting from one of …

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During what were for him the often dull days of the war (he had no work as a War Artist to preoccupy him), Edward Wadsworth suggested that he and Eurich painted, purely as a wartime pastime, versions of each other’s paintings. He picked Eurich’s Mousehole, Cornwall (1938), now in the collection of Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service, while his correspondent chose to paint a version of Wadsworth’s Le Havre (Basin de l’Eure), 1939, in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Towards the end of October 1942, Eurich wrote in his diary: ‘Started a small painting from one of Wadsworth’s pictures, making alterations where I felt like it.’ Two days later, he had finished it, writing: ‘I wonder what he will think of my “improvements”.’ There is no record of what the older artist thought, and the painting, which Eurich titled The Hammock and painted in oil on a gessoed panel, is currently untraced. The main change is that the strange draped shape across the foreground has been wittily turned into a hammock containing two figures. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a “Eurich" by Wadsworth: perhaps he never attempted one, or was dissatisfied with the results and destroyed it.

Provenance

AUCTIONED | 15th Nov 1978

"[title unknown]", Sotheby’s, London

lot 109

WITH | [unknown date]

Thomas Agnew and Sons

AUCTIONED | 6th Nov 1981

"[title unknown]", Christie's, London

lot 141, illustrated

WITH | November 1983

The Fine Art Society, London

WITH | March 2024

Dreweatts Auctioneers

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Provenance:

  • AUCTIONED - 15th Nov 1978 - "[title unknown]", Sotheby’s, London
    lot 109
  • AUCTIONED - 6th Nov 1981 - "[title unknown]", Christie's, London
    lot 141, illustrated

Exhibitions:

  • None recorded.

Notes:

  • [unknown date] - WITH
    Thomas Agnew and Sons
  • November 1983 - WITH
    The Fine Art Society, London
  • March 2024 - WITH
    Dreweatts Auctioneers

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The starting point for The Hammock was this picture by Edward Wadsworth, "Le Havre, France", painted in 1939, now in the collection of the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.

The starting point for The Hammock was this picture by Edward Wadsworth, "Le Havre, France", painted in 1939, now in the collection of the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.

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