Shipwreck (1960s)
Photo: Paul Carter      
© Richard Eurich Paintings

Shipwreck

1960s

Oil on driftwood panel
26 x 32 cm

Private Collection, UK


Seascapes | Coastal Scenes Works | 1960 to 1969 Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports The Art of Richard Eurich Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog

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Recto: Signed upper left: R. Eurich

breeches buoy figurehead sailing ship

The worn and abraded board is painted roughly and urgently to emphasise the incipient tragedy, but not without a wild beauty and Eurich's instinctive sense of pictorial balance.

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 8th to 29th Mar 2003

"RE-Discovered, a centenary celebration show of paintings and drawings by RICHARD EURICH OBE RA (1903 - 1992)" - The First Gallery, Southampton

Cat 34; priced at £795

IN COLLECTION | 2015

Private Collection, UK

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Provenance:

  • IN COLLECTION - 2015 - Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions:

  • 8th to 29th Mar 2003 - "RE-Discovered, a centenary celebration show of paintings and drawings by RICHARD EURICH OBE RA (1903 - 1992)", The First Gallery, Southampton
    Cat 34; priced at £795

Notes:

  • None recorded.

Location  

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

Image © Bonhams

Related  

Shipwreck (c1945)

Image © The Collector

 

Shipwreck (1959)

Image © Royal Academy of Arts

 

Wreck and Landslip, Yorkshire Coast (1968)

Image © Bonhams

 

Rescue from a Wreck (1923)

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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References:

  • The Art of Richard Eurich (Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727) [fig 87, pg 110]