© Imperial War Museum
The Raid on the Bruneval Radio Location Station, 27-28 February 1942
1942
oil on canvas
76.2h x 101.9w (cm)
Narrative
Figures on a Beach
Official War Artist
Wartime
Night | Dusk
Landscapes | Gardens
Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports
Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Commissioned Works
- Nicholas Usherwood from ‘The Edge of All the Land’ 1994This dramatic painting describes a daring but successful night-time raid by parachutists and commando boats to obtain radar equipment from a cliff-top site. Using detailed reconnaissance photographs and eye-witness accounts Eurich heightened the narrative drama by making the various incidents in the raid appear to happen at the same time. In reality the parachute descent happened at least thirty minutes before the motorboats, waiting in fact well off-shore to avoid detection, were called to come in and take the raiders off.
Provenance & Events
References:
Archive
- "Art UK"; [artuk.org]
Reviews
- "Illustrated London News"; [date unknown]
Collections
- "Imperial War Museum"; [link]
Other
- "Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
- "Art UK Curations 2"; [A Year through Art: February | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
- "Art UK Curations 1"; [Artists and places: Official Artists of the Second World War, part 1 | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
