Midget Submarine Attack on the 'Tirpitz', 22 September 1943 (1944)
Photo: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London      
© Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1947 (CC BY-NC-ND)

Midget Submarine Attack on the 'Tirpitz', 22 September 1943

1944

"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."

Provenance

COMMISSIONED | c1944

by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee

EXHIBITED | 5th May to 12th Aug 1945

"Summer Exhibition 1945" - Royal Academy of Arts, London

Cat 569

GIFTED | [unknown date]

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC0684

EXHIBITED | 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992

"Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day" - Imperial War Museum, London, UK

Cat 27

EXHIBITED | 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994

"The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992" - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton    (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)

Cat 35

CAN YOU HELP?

If you can help add to this timeline, please get in touch below.

Provenance:

  • COMMISSIONED - c1944 - by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee
  • GIFTED - [unknown date] - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
    by the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number BHC0684

Exhibitions:

  • 5th May to 12th Aug 1945 - "Summer Exhibition 1945", Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Cat 569
  • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992 - "Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day", Imperial War Museum, London, UK
    Cat 27
  • 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994 - "The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton    (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)
    Cat 35

Notes:

  • None recorded.

Does this page contain inaccurate or missing information that you could help us with, or do you simply want to leave a comment?

References:

  • “Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994) (Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood.) [Figure 35]
  • Art UK [artuk.org]
  • “Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist” (Edward Chaney and Christine Clearkin (contributions by James Hyman, David McCann and Peyton Skipwith), pub. 2003: Paul Holberton Publishing, ISBN 1903470110) [Cat 30, illustrated but not exhibited]
  • National Maritime Museum [website] [Object Details]
  • 'Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks’ signed 1941 - A Wartime Incident by Richard Eurich (1903-1992), THE ELUSIVE MR BEARE AND OTHER ESSAYS [ISBN 978 0 9559118 1 1] (Nigel Surry, Fortune Press, 2015)
  • Art UK Curations 3 [Themed groups of works selected from the Art UK online catalogue by art professionals and members of the public.] [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]