From the article by John O’Hern in the October/November issue of American Art Collector:

The English Painter Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938) has been described as “a mythic figure in the modern art movement.” He is also mythical, the imagined artists that allow Beard to paint in different styles without appearing to be unfocussed. Sargeant, who died tragically young in a wrestling accident, was in his virile prime during the First World War thought then, optimistically, to be the war to end all wars…