Mulberry Harbour, Selsey Bill (1944)
Photo: Paul Carter      
© Richard Eurich Paintings

Mulberry Harbour, Selsey Bill

1944

Pencil on paper
49 x 35.5 cm

Private Collection, UK


All Sketches Official War Artist Works | 1940 to 1949 Birds Eye View Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports Wartime

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Recto: Upper sketch unsigned but inscribed and dated lower right: Mulberry Harbour Selsey Bill 1944; lower sketch (dockyard scene drawn twice) untitled and undated

Aka: Mulberry Harbour, Selsey Bill [IWM]; Two Studies, Selsy Bill [FAS]; Two Studies [Fine Art Society]; Dockyard Drawings (Dockyard Drawing 1 and Dockyard Drawing 2) [CC]

Other measurements: framed set 49 x 34.5 cm, upper sketch 13 x 21.5 cm, lower sketch 16.5 x 25 cm

Cat: REP0253

England Hampshire Portsmouth Southampton The South Mayflower Wool House buildings canal flags floating harbour lifeboat masted ship monument warehouses

We are not sure how these two sketches came to be put together.. The upper one seems to be a study for Richard's painting for the Admiralty - Mulberry: The Prefabricated Harbour Assembled, Selsey Bill (1944). We suspect that the lower one was thought to be a wartime harbour, but is fact the sketch for the painting Southampton done in 1936 which was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in the USA in 1939 and bought by an American collector.

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992

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

Cat 36

EXHIBITED | 1st to 25th Feb 1994

"A Tribute to Richard Eurich" - The Fine Art Society, London

Cat 37; priced at £450

IN COLLECTION | 2018

Private Collection, UK

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Provenance:

  • IN COLLECTION - 2018 - Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions:

  • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992 - "Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day", Imperial War Museum, London, UK
    Cat 36
  • 1st to 25th Feb 1994 - "A Tribute to Richard Eurich", The Fine Art Society, London
    Cat 37; priced at £450

Notes:

  • None recorded.

Details  

upper sketch

upper sketch
Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

lower sketch

lower sketch
Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

 

Southampton (1936)

Southampton (1938)
Southampton (1936)
Image © Carnegie Institute

 

Mulberry Harbour Selsey Bill (1944)

Mulberry - The Prefabricated Harbour Assembled, Selsey Bill (1944)
Mulberry Harbour Selsey Bill (1944)
Image © IWM Art.IWM ART LD 5189

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