Shipwreck (c1945)
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Shipwreck

c1945

22.9 x 30.5 cm

Private Collection


Paintings for Children Works | 1940 to 1949 Bonfires | Flames | Smoke Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

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Recto: Signed

Aka: Shipwreck; Ship-wreck

Verso: Redfern Gallery label with title 'Shipwreck' and purchaser, dated May 1945

choppy sea distress flares large waves lifeboats oars ships sinking wrecks

Another work from the 1945 Paintings for Children exhibition at the Redfern that ended up where Richard had hoped it might - pleasing children, as this note confirms in some correspondence from the family who still have it:

. . . a  small seascape of a lifeboat going out in the dark to rescue a sinking ship, hung in my sister's and my nursery when we were small children in the late 1940s

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 10th to 28th Apr 1945

"Paintings for Children by Richard Eurich" - Redfern Gallery, London

Cat 100; priced at 12 Guineas

ACQUIRED | May 1945

by private collector from the Redfern Gallery

BY DESCENT | [unknown date]

passed down the family

IN COLLECTION | 2021

Private Collection

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Provenance:

  • ACQUIRED - May 1945 - by private collector from the Redfern Gallery
  • BY DESCENT - [unknown date] - passed down the family
  • IN COLLECTION - 2021 - Private Collection

Exhibitions:

  • 10th to 28th Apr 1945 - "Paintings for Children by Richard Eurich", Redfern Gallery, London
    Cat 100; priced at 12 Guineas

Notes:

  • None recorded.

Related  

Letter to Richard from Bernard Dunstan RA c1984: "Dear Richard, This is a memory of a small picture of yours I saw at a friend's house last night. A shipwreck at night, about 14" x 12" with a lifeboat approaching a fiery ship . . .

Letter to Richard from Bernard Dunstan RA c1984: "Dear Richard, This is a memory of a small picture of yours I saw at a friend's house last night. A shipwreck at night, about 14" x 12" with a lifeboat approaching a fiery ship . . .
Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

Wreck and Landslip, Yorkshire Coast (1968)

Image © Bonhams

 

Shipwreck (1959)

Image © Royal Academy of Arts

 

The Wreck of the 'Madeleine Tristan', Chesil Beach (1934)

Image © Bonhams

 

Rescue from a Wreck (1923)

Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

Shipwreck (1960s)

Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

The Wreck of the Herzogin Cecilie (1944)

Image © Southampton City Art Gallery / Richard Eurich Paintings

 

Beached Trawler (1955)

Image © Rosebery's London

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