Battleship and Submarine

1915

watercolour on paper

9h × 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

Format:

Watercolour

Subject

Royal Navy

Sea

WW1

WWI

World War 1

World War I

attack

destroyer

fire

flames

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]

Related Works

Sinking Ship in Flames (1915)

Troops on Parade (c1915)

Ship on Fire (1914)

Searchlights (1916)