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Mark Gertler

(1891-1939), Painter

Sitter in 99 portraits
Artist of 6 portraits
Born into a Polish-Jewish immigrant family in Spitalfields, in 1908 Gertler enrolled in the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks and alongside Paul Nash, where he befriended Edward Marsh and Dora Carrington. Lady Ottoline Morrell became his patron, through whom he met members of the Bloomsbury Group. Gertler was a conscientious objector and used the de-humanising lessons of Vorticism to create, in Merry-Go-Round (1916, Tate Gallery), one of the most powerful images of the futility of war. His obsessive love for Carrington was not returned, and together with his anti-war beliefs, this fuelled his creativity. Suffering from ill health and depression, and disappointed by his career, he committed suicide in 1939.

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Mark Gertler ('Self Portrait with Fishing Cap')
by Mark Gertler
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Mark Gertler
possibly by Dora Carrington
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Group including Duncan Grant and Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler; Dorothy Brett
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Madeline Clinkard; Aldous Huxley; Mark Gertler; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Philip Edward Morrell; Mark Gertler and an unknown woman
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Aldous Huxley; Mark Gertler; (Arthur) Richard Murry
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Dorothy Brett; Mark Gertler; Aldous Huxley with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler; Dorothy Brett; Aldous Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Mark Gertler; Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett; Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Aldous Huxley; Dorothy Brett; Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Marjorie Gertler (née Hodgkinson, later Kostenz) (wife)

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