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The Seaweed Cart

1974

oil on board

31.5h x 54.5w (cm)

Figures on a Beach

Towels | Shrouds | Figures Bending Over

Strange Pictures

RA Summer Exhibitions

Recto: signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich '74

Verso: inscribed and dated on backboard; FAS sales label dated June 1979

Alternatives:

Seaweed Cart and Two Figures [FAS]

The Sea-Weed Cart [FAS label]

Tags:

Figures on a Beach

Motifs

Problem Pictures

Themes

Towels

Subject

Sea

animal

beached boats

cart

cliffs

collecting seaweed

horse

man

sea-weed

swimming suits trunks

towels

waves

women woman female

Medium

Oil

Richard plays with a sense of scale in this work depicting figures on a beach, in common with a few other works from the 1970s. See below.

- REP - PB

Provenance & Events

EXHIBITION • 8th May to 1st Aug 1976

"Summer Exhibition 1976"

Royal Academy of Arts

Cat 348

SOLO SHOW • 26th Apr to 20th May 1977

"Richard Eurich RA"

The Fine Art Society

Cat 37

ACQUIRED • June 1979 to 9th Mar 2026

bought by private collector from The Fine Art Society

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

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"

Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries

Cat 90, illustrated

EXHIBITION • 2nd Jul to 29th Aug 1982

"Southampton Festival Exhibition of Marine Painting"

Southampton City Art Gallery

Cat 90, illustrated

AUCTION • 19th Dec 1983

"[title unknown]"

Christie's, South Kensington

lot 21

AUCTION • 9th to 18th Mar 2026

"Modern British and Irish Art"

Bonhams

Lot 127: inc. premium

Sold for £7,680

References:

Catalogues

"RICHARD EURICH, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"; by Caroline Krzesinska, pub. Bradford Art Galleries and Museums 1979 [p45]

Related Works

Figure and Planes (1974)

Figures on a Beach (1979)

No.24 Seaweed Beach (1985)

Gathering Seaweed (1985)

Girl with Seaweed (1989)