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

Mulberry Harbour, Selsey Bill

1944

pencil on paper

49h x 35.5w (cm)

Private Collection

Official War Artist

Wartime

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Birds Eye View

Sketches

Recto: upper sketch unsigned but inscribed and dated lower right: Mulberry Harbour Selsey Bill 1944; lower sketch (dockyard scene drawn twice) untitled and undated

Alternatives:

Two Studies, Selsy Bill [FAS]

Two Studies [Fine Art Society]

Dockyard Drawings (Dockyard Drawing 1 and Dockyard Drawing 2) [CC]

Tags:

Birds Eye View

England

Hampshire

Motifs

Official War Artist

Portsmouth

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

Southampton

The South

Themes

Wartime

Subject

Mayflower

Wool House

buildings

canal

flags

floating

harbour

lifeboat

masted ship

monument

warehouses

Medium

pencil

We are not sure how these two sketches came to be put together.. The upper one seems to be a study for Richard's painting for the Admiralty - Mulberry: The Prefabricated Harbour Assembled, Selsey Bill (1944). We suspect that the lower one was thought to be a wartime harbour, but is fact the sketch for the painting Southampton done in 1936 which was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in the USA in 1939 and bought by an American collector.

- REP