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Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633
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The Great Convoy to North Africa

1943

oil on panel

36.8h x 127w (cm)

Imperial War Museum

Narrative
Official War Artist
Wartime
Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports
Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Birds Eye View
Panoramas
Bonfires | Flames | Smoke
Commissioned Works

Recto: signed lower right: R Eurich 1943

Alternatives:
The Great Convoy to North Africa, 1942 [IWM], The Great Convoy to North Africa [Bradford]
Great African Convoy (with field glasses) [RE sales diary]

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Themes
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Subject
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Royal Navy
Sea
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WW2
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World War 2 World War II
aeroplanes
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troops
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Medium
Oil

RE has painted in a caption bottom centre that reads: "In the hands of the Royal Navy, an Allied convoy of 800 ships sailed with an army to North Africa. November 1942."

- REP

23rd September 1943: “Mavis suggested that the sea in the long convoy picture ought to have more surface. So I worked all day at it , and it looked frightful. We both looked at it and said “How awful!” and so I took a rag and wiped it all off! Most disheartening.”

- RE diary entry

See another painting of this subject, The Great Convoy to North Africa, November 1942.

- REP-PC

Provenance & Events

COMMISSIONED • 1943

by the Admiralty / War Artists' Advisory Committee

EXHIBITION • 1944

"National War Pictures"

National Gallery
GIFTED • 1947

Imperial War Museum

transferred from the War Artists' Advisory Committee; accession number IWM ART LD 3477

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

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"

Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries

Cat 32

EXHIBITION • 1986
SOLO SHOW • 26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992

References:

Archive

Books

  • "Colours of War, War Art 1939-45"; Alan Ross, Jonathan Cape [cover picture]
  • "William Rothenstein & Richard Eurich - WAR ARTISTS"; Colin Neville, Not Just Hockney, 2021 [pg 16]
  • "War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945"; by Brian Foss, pub. Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3, 2007 [illustrated, Fig. 178, pg. 143]

Reviews

  • "In Focus: The Anglo-German pacifist-turned-war artist who famously chronicled Dunkirk — despite not being there"; Peyton Skipwith, Country Life - online
  • "Art of World War II; A Culture Show Special to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain"; broadcast May 2020: BBC4 TV
  • "Poet of the Beach"; Peyton Skipwith, Country Life, 19 September 2020
  • "Illustrated London News"; [date unknown]
  • "The Sea, the sea"; review by Jonathan Meades of the Edge of All the Land exhibition (1994) republished in a book of his selected writings - Pedro and Ricky Come Again, pub. Unbound: 18 March 2021, ISBN-10 : 1783529504; ISBN-13 : 978-1783529506

Collections

Other

  • "Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]

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