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Here are all the paintings of Mark Gertler 01
| ID |
Painting |
Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
Painting Description |
| 45867 |
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Merry-go-Round |
mk178
1916
oils on linen
189.2x142.2 London deed Gallery
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| 1456 |
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The Merry Go Round |
1916
Tate Modern, London |
| 23299 |
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The Merry-Go-Round (nn03) |
1916
Oil on canvas 189.2 x 142.2 cm 74 1/2 x 56 in Tate Gallery London |
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| Mark Gertler
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| British
1891-1939
Mark Gertler Gallery
English painter. He was the son of Polish Jews and was brought up in Whitechapel in severe poverty until his father furrier workshop became moderately successful. As a child he knew nothing of art except advertisements and the work of pavement artists. He was 14 before he heard of any art institutions, and his career was determined by the discovery of W. P. Frith Autobiography in a secondhand bookshop. In 1906 he began attending art classes at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London, as well as a series of talks on Dutch and Flemish painting. His earliest still-lifes show the influence of Dutch 17th-century painting and the work of Chardin. Gertler left the Polytechnic for financial reasons in 1907 and apprenticed himself to Clayton and Bell, a firm of glass painters. In 1908 he won a prize in a national art competition and, on the strength of this, successfully applied for financial assistance from the Jewish Educational Aid Society, using William Rothenstein as a referee. That autumn he entered the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was taught by Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer. He won several prizes and scholarships and fell in love with Dora Carrington. This and other friendships established at the Slade introduced him into a society that gave him a new perspective on his own family background. While writing delightedly to others of his nice friends among the upper classes, his paintings
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