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Battleship and Submarine

1915

watercolour on paper

9h x 12.5w (cm)

Private Collection

Wartime

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Watercolours

Juvenilia

Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist

Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R.E.1915

Subject

Royal Navy

Sea

WW1

WWI

World War 1

World War I

attack

destroyer

fire

flames

military

naval

periscope

sinking

submarines

survivors

vessel

war

warships

wartime

Medium

watercolour

This early painting, done during the First World War when RE was about 12 years old, was found in a scrapbook he compiled to show a selection of studies ". . . drawn before I went to the Slade School, London in 1924 - so they represent a cross section of what I was studying out of school up to the age of twenty one.".

- REP

Richard had to learn to deflect anti-German feeling at his boarding school.
"I found there was one way in which I could make my fellows forget their antagonisms. It was generally acknowledged that I could draw so I entertained the uncritical rabble with extravagant battle pictures, often of a murderous nature, and in their appreciation of these works they lost sight of my German antecedents."

- RE memoir

Provenance & Events

IN COLLECTION • 2018

Private Collection

References:

Books

"Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist"; Edward Chaney and Christine Clearkin (contributions by James Hyman, David McCann and Peyton Skipwith), pub. 2003: Paul Holberton Publishing, ISBN 1903470110 [Fig 6 in catalogue, not exhibited]

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