The Whitby Lights (1962)
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The Whitby Lights

1962

Oil on board
35.2 x 58.1 cm

Whereabouts unknown


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Recto: Signed and dated twice lower left: R. Eurich 1962

Aka: The Whitby Lights [RA]; Whitby [Rountree Tryon Galleries]

Verso: Inscribed 'the Whitby lights/Richard Eurich'

England The North Whitby Yorkshire bathing bench boats breakwater choppy sea crowds dogs figures fisherman fishing rods jetty lamp post light house lighthouses painter promenade quay raining sailing boats smoke street lamp tourists

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 1963

"[exhibition title unknown]", Redfern Gallery, London

EXHIBITED | 4th May to 18th Aug 1963

"Summer Exhibition 1963" - Royal Academy of Arts, London

Cat 633

ACQUIRED | 1963

bought by a private collector from the RA for £125

WITH | [unknown date]

the Maas Gallery

AUCTIONED | [unknown date]

Rountree Tryon Galleries, date unknown

IN COLLECTION | 2007

Arthur Ackermann and Peter Johnson

AUCTIONED | 8th May 2008

"The Arthur Ackermann and Peter Johnson Collection: A Connoisseur's Choice", Christie’s, South Kensington, London

lot 93, illustrated; price realised £5,000

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Provenance:

  • ACQUIRED - 1963 - bought by a private collector from the RA for £125
  • AUCTIONED - [unknown date] - Rountree Tryon Galleries, date unknown
  • IN COLLECTION - 2007 - Arthur Ackermann and Peter Johnson
  • AUCTIONED - 8th May 2008 - "The Arthur Ackermann and Peter Johnson Collection: A Connoisseur's Choice", Christie’s, South Kensington, London
    lot 93, illustrated; price realised £5,000

Exhibitions:

  • 1963 - "[exhibition title unknown]", Redfern Gallery, London
  • 4th May to 18th Aug 1963 - "Summer Exhibition 1963", Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Cat 633

Notes:

  • [unknown date] - WITH
    the Maas Gallery

Sketches  

Sketch_02-03b LT trawlers putting to sea, Whitby lights (27th Aug 1962)

Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

Related  

Pierrot and Fisherman (1975)

 

Fog Bank, Whitby (1934)

Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

Note how the brown triangle of the sail is picked up in 'Whitby Lights'.

A Moment of Sadness (1981)
Note how the brown triangle of the sail is picked up in 'Whitby Lights'.
Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

None of Richard’s holiday paintings survive but this ‘Coast Scene with Rainbow’ of 1953, surely harks back to his excitement at the first sight of Whitby that day

Coast Scene with Rainbow (1952-53)
None of Richard’s holiday paintings survive but this ‘Coast Scene with Rainbow’ of 1953, surely harks back to his excitement at the first sight of Whitby that day
Image © Crown Copyright, UK

 

The Queen of the Sea,1911 painted in 1954. Richard brings to life the memory of that holiday in Whitby with hallucinatory clarity

Queen of the Sea, 1911 (1954)
The Queen of the Sea,1911 painted in 1954. Richard brings to life the memory of that holiday in Whitby with hallucinatory clarity
Image © Royal Academy of Arts

 

Whitby, North Yorkshire, to Represent Sheffield on Holiday (1960-61)

Image © Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

Whitby, Yorkshire (1934)

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References:

  • RA Illustrated [1963]
  • Southern Daily Echo (Hampshire magazine)