Bernard Banks (20th Century) Sheep on a country track at dusk, signed lower left, oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, together with two smaller oils of sheep in rural settings and Mallards in Flight over a River at Sunset, by the same hand, (total 4)

Provenance: Ex Collection of a Northern Art Gallery

Bernard Banks was a Lancashire artist. Banks served in Burma during World War Two, being captured by the Japanese and spend three and a half years as a Prisoner of War. He continued to draw when he could, creating portraits of his fellow prisoners and he helped artist Ronald Searle (1920-2011) illustrate the camp magazine. Banks’ paintings were primarily influenced by his love of the land and sea.

Condition Report

The paintings are all on canvas, unframed. They have been stored in a gallery setting and wrapped in plastic covering prior to sale. All of the paintings are in generally good and clean condition. The larger painting showing sheep on a country lane with trees down the right side has some surface abrasion to the upper left.

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