© Richard Eurich Paintings
The White Sail
1980
oil and pencil on board
42h x 46w (cm)
Private Collection (UK)
Families
Figures on a Beach
Umbrellas | Hats
Lepe Beach and The Solent
RA Summer Exhibitions
All Works in NEAC Exhibitions 1927 to 1992
- REP/PCThe title subject is dead centre of the picture, and yet if I had been composing a name for the painting I’d probably have referred to the human figures. Yet, when your attention is drawn to the sail you realise how it shines out at you like a light. But the figures are strangely flat and the tall man weirdly elongated with his child draped awkwardly against him. This is one of the earliest examples I have come across where he uses pencil as well as oil paint which contributes to the overall flatness and the second where he has used figures in this monumental fashion.
