20th Century British and Irish Art

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Lot 66
  • 66

Mark Gertler, 1891-1939

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mark Gertler
  • flowers
  • signed, titled and dated 1916 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 41x30.5cm.; 16x12in.

Provenance

Mrs Violet Schiff
Given to Rex Henshall by Sir Edwin Beddington-Behrens circa 1962 and thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

London, New English Art Club, Winter 1916, no. 79
London, Heal's Mansard Gallery, November 1917, no. 43
possibly Zurich, Kunsthaus, Englische Moderne Malerei as 'Blumenstilleben', August 1918, no. 23
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Memorial Exhibition, 22 June - 23 July 1949, no. 19

Literature

Carrington to Mark Gertler, November 1917, 'I want to tell you how very much I liked your Still Lifes in the London Group... How well the tulips look! There is nothing in the show to compare with them.'

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Luke Gertler and Sarah MacDougall for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.