
Mark Gertler
Through the Window (Holt End, Berkshire), 1937
oil on canvas
53 x 79 cm; 21 x 31 in
JC79
Out of Copyright
Provenance
H. Gertler.Mrs R. Diamond, the artist’s niece.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 22 November 1995, lot 52 as ‘View from a bedroom window’.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 23 June 1999, lot 22 as ‘View from a bedroom window’, where purchased.
Exhibitions
London New Burlington Galleries, The London Group, 36th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, October - November 1937, no. 10.London, Lefevre Galleries, Recent Paintings by Mark Gertler, April - May 1937, no. 13 as ‘The Window’.
London, Leicester Galleries, Mark Gertler Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1941, no. 45 as ‘Garden seen though a window, 1937’.
London, Ben Uri Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Mark Gertler (1892-1939), November - December 1944, no. 29 as ‘The Window, 1937’ (lent by H. Gertler Esq.).
London, Ben Uri Art Gallery, Mark Gertler, The Early and the Late Years, March - May 1982, no. 55, illustrated p. 20, as ‘Through the Window’ (lent by Leslie Diamond Esq.).
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Coast, Country, City, August - November 2021.
Literature
J. Woodeson, Mark Gertler, Biography of a Painter (1891-1939), London, 1972, p. 390.A. Causey, ‘Gertler After the First World War’, in Mark Gertler Paintings and Drawings, Camden Arts Centre Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1992, p. 31, pl. 9.
S. MacDougall, Mark Gertler, London, 2002, p. 308.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 31.