1989
Oil on board
47 x 62.2 cm
Whereabouts unknown
All Works in RA Summer Exhibitions 1937 to 1993 Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports Works | 1980 to 1989 Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog Birds Eye View Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich '89
Other measurements: 47 x 62.2; 45.7 x 61 cm
Devon England The South West Torquay breakers breakwater large waves sailing ship tall ship two masterThis painting is based on sketches that Richard did on a visit to Torquay with his mother 65 years earlier.
They went there in January 1924 for his mother's health. The sun didn’t reach their house in Ilkley during the winter months which was not good for someone suffering from TB.
He used the trip to sketch and paint. Sketches he did from his hotel room window of a ship in the harbour pounded by waves in a storm were not realised as paintings until several decades later - this one Storm Torquay (1989), another one that he showed in the …
This painting is based on sketches that Richard did on a visit to Torquay with his mother 65 years earlier.
They went there in January 1924 for his mother's health. The sun didn’t reach their house in Ilkley during the winter months which was not good for someone suffering from TB.
He used the trip to sketch and paint. Sketches he did from his hotel room window of a ship in the harbour pounded by waves in a storm were not realised as paintings until several decades later - this one Storm Torquay (1989), another one that he showed in the same RA summer exhibition High Seas, Torquay (1989), and Torquay Storm (c1983).
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