Bernard Sleigh (1872-1954)
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Bernard Sleigh (1872-1954)

The Garden of Enna

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Bernard Sleigh (1872-1954)
The Garden of Enna
signed with monogram (lower right)
tempera on board
12 x 15½ in. (30.5 x 39.4 cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Bernard Sleigh worked as a mural decorator, stained glass designer and as chief wood engraver to fellow polymaths of the Birmingham school, including Joseph Southall and Arthur Gaskin. Stephen Wildman calls Sleigh 'the most visionary' of the group in his catalogue to the 1990 exhibition The Birmingham School (Birmingham City Art Gallery).
Enna is the mythical location where Pluto captures Ceres's daughter Prosperine and takes her to the Underworld; afterwards she returns for the spring of each year.

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