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Landing at Dieppe 19th August 1942
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
aircraft, military
boat - non-specific
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cliff
coast
countries and continents
Dieppe - non-specific
Dieppe landing, 19 Aug 1942
fire
France
history
military: World War II
natural phenomena
objects
places
sea
seascapes and coasts
ship, warship
smoke
society
sunrise
times of the day
transport: air
transport: water
weapon, firing / explosion
weapons
<p>This epic painting records the Allied seaborne assault on occupied France in 1942 which resulted in heavy losses of men and equipment. Eurich was commissioned to record the occasion and was given access to top secret maps, models, photographs and written orders.</p><p>Eurich said the three sections represented different times of day. The central section records the main attack at sunrise and ‘almost becomes a battle plan’. On the right is ‘the blowing up of a munition dump [and]... other detailed action by troops landed’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
20 March 2004 – 28 May 2004
2004-05-28
20 March 2004 – 28 May 2004
2004-05-28
2004-03-20
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2004-03-20
Richard Eurich
Loan-out
9 June 2015 – 13 September 2015
2015-09-13
9 June 2015 – 13 September 2015
2015-09-13
2015-06-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-06-09
Fighting History
Exhibition
The Landing at Dieppe, 19th August 1942
support: 1219 × 1753 mm
frame: 1430 × 1950 × 130 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
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<span class="text14">This epic <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> records the Allied </span><span class="text17">seaborne assault on occupied France  in 1942 which resulted      in heavy losses  of men and equipment. Eurich was commissioned to record      the occasion </span><span class="text14">
and was given access to top      secret maps, models, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> and written orders. </span>
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<span class="text14">Eurich said the three sections represented different      times of day. The central section </span><span class="text15">records the      main attack at sunrise and ‘almost</span><span class="text14">
    becomes a battle plan’. On the right is ‘the blowing up of a      munition dump [and]</span><span class="text16">...</span><span class="text14"> other detailed action by troops landed’.  </span>
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2004-09-09T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05691</b>	THE LANDING AT DIEPPE, 19TH AUGUST 1942 1942–3
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<br/>Inscr. ‘R. Eurich. 1942–3.’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on plywood, 48×69 (122×175).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1943 (456), as ‘Dieppe’; <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1943; <i>Spring Exhibition</i>, Bradford, March–June 1945 (253); <i>National War Pictures</i>, R.A., October–November 1945 (284); <i>Works by Bradford Artists, 1851–1951</i>, Bradford, June–August 1951 (27).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Eric Newton, <i>War through Artists' Eyes</i>, 1945, p.36 (in colour).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (8 September 1956): ‘I was particularly asked if I would have a go at the subject and was sent for a day or two after the event to Headquarters Combined Operations, which was at that time in Whitehall. I was locked in a room with a sentry, where maps, models, souvenirs etc. were displayed, with orders issued to troops etc.... I was told next to nothing.... I divided the picture into a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/triptych" title="Glossary definition for 'Triptych'"><span>triptych</span></a>, the centre sunrise being that time of day, but the two flanking wings are two different times of the day. The huge explosion on the right was the blowing up of a munition dump by Lord Lovat's Commandos (the only part of the action which went to plan). The right wing represents other detailed action by troops landed - The main attack (frontal) is represented in the centre, and really if considered as a flat pattern, almost becomes a battle diagram, as seen in history books. The destroyer depicted [to the right] was lost as shown.’</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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aircraft, military boat - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cliff coast countries and continents Dieppe landing, 19 Aug 1942 Dieppe - non-specific fire France history military: World War II natural phenomena objects places sea seascapes and coasts ship, warship smoke society sunrise times of the day transport: air transport: water weapon, firing / explosion weapons