Mark Gertler
The Irish Yew (Garsington, Oxfordshire), 1921
oil on canvas
78.7 x 63.5 cm; 31 x 25 in
JC132
Out of copyright
Provenance
Mr and Mrs S. Samuels.Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 19 July 1967, lot 109, as ‘Landscape with Cypress’, where purchased by Dunphy.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 19 July 1968, lot 109, as ‘The Yew’.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 16 November 2007, lot 25, as ‘The Yew at Garsington’, where purchased.
Exhibitions
London, Goupil Gallery, Mark Gertler, A New Series of Paintings, February 1922, no. 17, as ‘The Irish Yew’.London, Leicester Galleries, Mark Gertler Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1941, no. 13 as ‘Landscape with Cypress (Garsington) 1921’.
London, Ben Uri Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Mark Gertler (1892-1939) [sic 1891], November - December 1944, no. 54 as ‘Landscape with Cypress 1921’ (lent by S. Samuels
Esq.).
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Mark Gertler (1891-1939), Memorial Exhibition, June - July 1949, no. 31 as ‘Landscape with Cypress’ (lent by Mr and Mrs S. Samuels).
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revealed, February - April 2014.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Coast, Country, City, August - November 2021.
London, Garden Museum, Three Women’: Gardens and the imagination in Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Ottoline Morrell, May - October 2024.
Literature
J. Woodeson, Mark Gertler, Biography of a Painter (1891-1939), London, 1972, p. 374, as ‘Landscape with Cypress – Garsington’.S. MacDougall, Mark Gertler, London, 2002, p. 118.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 31.
C. Tobin, exhibition catalogue, Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, Garden Museum, London, 2024, p. 45, illustrated.
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