Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — © Richard Eurich Paintings

Bait Diggers and Sunbathers

1985

oil on board

22h x 50w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

Figures on a Beach

Seascapes | Coastal Scenes

Lepe Beach and The Solent

Recto: signed and dated lower left: Richard Eurich 81-5

Alternatives:

32h x 61w [FAS?]

Tags:

England

Figures on a Beach

Hampshire

Lepe Beach

Seascapes / Coastal Scenes

The Solent

The South

Themes

Subject

Dog

Island

Isle of Wight

animals

asleep

buckets

groynes

low tide

man

sailing boats

sand spit

seaweed

shingle

spades

spit

sun glasses

windbreak

women woman female

Medium

Oil

This is quite a funny picture as well as a beautiful one. The windbreak appears in earlier works. The question is whether it was added later to the painting to liven up the placidity of the composition. Dad dates this picture as extended over some years and this is an obvious conclusion one might jump to.

- REP / PB

A visitor was browsing through sketches on this site and found the reference sketch for this work. See below. It includes the windbreak, showing it was not an afterthought at all. Well spotted, thank you!
When we added the sketch to this record we discovered it was already associated with another painting - The Black Dog - also done in 1985! In this picture the windbreak has been left out but the figures and setting are almost the same.

- REP / PB

Provenance & Events

ACQUIRED • c1987

purchased by private collector from The Fine Art Society

IN COLLECTION • 2015

Private Collection (UK)

Related Works

The Black Dog (1985)

This is another work done in 1985 that references the same sketch.

Windbreak (1988)

Windbreaks appear in a number of other RE beach scenes.