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[Wyndham Lewis]
 Mark
Gertler (1891 - 1939)
Biography
Gertler was a British painter born in Spitalfields, London as
the youngest child of Jewish immigrants. His relationship with
Dora Carrington in his earlier life was to inspire the novel
Mendel, by Gilbert Cannan, alongside the character of Loerke
from Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence) and Aldous Huxley’s
Crome Yellow.
Due to family poverty he became an apprentice to a stained glass
company, and after getting third place in a National art competition
he successfully applied for a scholarship and enrolled at the
Slade School of Art.
He struggled with poverty during his career as an artist after
alienating potential posers for his art, by painting with his
own vision in a temperamental manner.
In 1916, he created his master painting – The Merry-Go
Round, which lead Lawrence to proclaim it as the best modern
picture he had seen.
Gertler committed suicide in 1939, with difficulty in selling
his work and fear of another looming World War.
Mark Gertler's Paintings
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Merry Go Round |
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Sonata |
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The Bokhara Coat |
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Mark Gertler (Hardcover)
by Sarah MacDougall (Author)
This biography of Mark Gertler reappraises an
extraordinary artist. Gertler was admired and
encouraged by Walter Sickert, Vanessa Bell,
Roger Fry and Henry Moore; his magnificent and
haunting pictures were keenly collected by London
society and yet at 48, feeling alienated, he
killed himself.
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Nash] [Augustus John]
[Austin Spare] [Bruce
Bairnsfarther] [Alfred Lee]
[David Bomberg] [Eric
Ravilious] [William
Rothenstein] [Leonard
Raven-Hill] [Frank Brangwyn]
[John Lavery] [Francis
Dodd] [Stanley Spencer]
[Mervyn Peake] [Muirhead
Bone] [Cyril-Bird] [William
Roberts] [William Orpen]
[Mark Gertler] [Philip
Steer] [John Hassall]
[Wyndham Lewis]
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