ABSTRACT
Sadler or Sadleir, as he later spelt his name (1888-1957), was a bibliographer and son of the educationalist and collector Michael Ernest Sadler (1861-1943). His father was converted to Post-Impressionism in the autumn of 1910 (see headnote for no. 45), and at about the same time Sadleir, fils, began to buy works by Kandinsky (see headnote for no. 53). His articles for Rhythm on fauvism serve as a reminder that it was this form of Post-Impressionism that was most acceptable to the British, particularly in the work of Anne Estelle Rice, S.J. Peploe (1871-1935) and J.D. Fergusson (1874-1961) who was art editor for the journal Rhythm and whose picture Rhythm appeared on its cover.
