1944
Oil on mahogany panel
40.6 x 106.7 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Panoramas Birds Eye View Official War Artist All Works in RA Summer Exhibitions 1937 to 1993 Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog Landscapes | Gardens All Works in Public Collections Seascapes | Coastal Scenes Narrative Commissioned Works Works | 1940 to 1949 Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports Bonfires | Flames | Smoke Wartime Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist
Recto: Signed and dated: R Eurich 1944
Aka: Midget Submarine Attack on the Tirpitz, 22nd September 1943 [Southampton; and Millais Gallery]; Torpedoing of the Tirpitz by Midget Submarines [RA and IWM]
Kaa Fiord Norway NMM National Maritime Museum WW2 WWII World War 2 World War II barrage boats ships explosion fiord inlet mountains public collection reflection sea snow war war artist wartime"Of the war pictures, "Torpedoing of the Tirpit? by Midget Submarines" by Richard Eurich (No. 569) gave me most pleasure. No minefields, even in the clear waters of the Norwegian fiords, were ever so visible as these--never was there such a whelk as crawls on the bottom of this sea, yet all have their place in this picture, and no one would wish them away. Whether or not we have here an echo of the Futurist 'plastic interpenetration of matter' I neither know nor care ; drawing, design and painting are all good, and the picture pleases me."
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