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

Mulberry - The Prefabricated Harbour Assembled, Selsey Bill

1944

oil on canvas

37.4h x 81.9w (cm)

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Seascapes | Coastal Scenes

Panoramas

Commissioned Works

The Art of Richard Eurich

Recto: signed and inscribed lower left: R Eurich. Selsey Bill, May 1944

Alternatives:

Mulberry – the Pre-Fabricated Harbour Assembled []

Mulberry: The Prefabricated Harbour Assembled, Kelsey Bill [Art UK]

Selsey Bill 1944 [RE sales diary]

36h x 81w []

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Commissioned Works

England

Narrative

Official War Artist

Panoramas

Seascapes / Coastal Scenes

Selsey

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

The South

Themes

Wartime

West Sussex

Subject

Beach

Flag

IWM

Imperial War Museum

Sea

WW2

WWII

World War 2 World War II

boats ships

dinghy

dragon's teeth

floating

harbour

public collection

tank traps

war

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wartime

Medium

Oil

22nd May 1944: To Selsey with Commanders Kimmins and Moore to see the subject to be painted: Mulberry Harbour for the landings in Normandy.

- RE diary entry

From an interview with Richard done for the Imperial War Museum in about 1990
"That is the Mulberry harbour being assembled at Southsea Bill, prior to D-Day which took place about a fortnight after I was down there. It was very interesting. They wouldn’t tell me what it was for, but they took me out in a duck. It was most extraordinary. It was like a lot of factories standing up out of the water. I had some pretty plain idea what it was. And it was eventually towed across to Normandy of course, where it became an artificial harbour for our landing craft to go into to land. It was certainly one of the most extraordinary things of the war."

- IWM REP

Provenance & Events

COMMISSIONED • 1945

by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee

GIFTED • 1947

Imperial War Museum

from the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number IWM ART LD 5189

SOLO SHOW • 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"

Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries

Cat 33

SOLO SHOW • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992

"Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day"

Imperial War Museum

Cat 30

EXHIBITION • 27th May to 31st Oct 2021

"SEASIDE MODERN: ART & LIFE ON THE BEACH (1910-1960)"

Hastings Contemporary

References:

Collections

"Imperial War Museum"; [link]

Books

"The Art of Richard Eurich"; Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727 [fig 48, pg 68]

Other

"Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
"Art UK Curations 1"; [The Great British Coastline Art Tour: Sussex - Camber to Bosham |curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]