Remfry said it gave him “enormous pleasure” to know that Two Girls On The Shore had joined the gallery’s collection.
His exhibition at the gallery had been “a real highlight” and he “felt incredibly grateful to share that body of work with such an engaged and generous audience”.
”To now have this work permanently housed within the collection feels deeply meaningful,” he added.
The painting had been on loan at the gallery since December 2024. The acquisition was made possible with the support of the council, the Friends of Beverley Art Gallery, and Art Fund.
According to the Royal Academy of Arts, external, Remfry is known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers and his drawings and watercolours of neighbours and friends at the Hotel Chelsea, New York, where he lived from 1995 to 2016.
He was appointed an MBE in 2001.