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Adam and Eve garden roller
Artist: Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Location: Leeds Art Gallery
Date: 1910 - 1920
Materials: Portland stone & metal
Dimensions: 76 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £43,000; tax remission)
Vendor: Fine Art Society
Review number: 3597 (1991)
Provenance:
Eric Gill; Dr. Wheeler Robinson, Bucks.
Description:
This garden roller was actually intended for use. Gill secularised the biblical story: it was intended as a simple everyday object, part of the work ethos, in which Adam and Eve are literally having a roll in the Garden of Eden.
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