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Still Life with Guitar

Image credit: Ben Uri Collection

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The textured surface, high colouring and complex composition is typical of Gertler’s still lifes during the 1930s. Musical instruments, in combination with other still life objects, were a common motif during this period. Mark Gertler was born in Spitalfields in 1891 to Austrian-Jewish parents. The family was repatriated the following year but returned to London’s East End in 1896. After a brief training at the Regent Street Polytechnic, Gertler attended the Slade School of Art from 1908 to 1911 on the recommendation of William Rothenstein, winning a number of prizes and leaving with a British Institute Scholarship. Post-Slade Gertler embraced Post-Impressionism, fusing Jewish subject matter with modernist techniques. His most radical work, 'Merry-Go-Round', completed in 1916, expressed his pacifist views during the First World War.

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

London

Title

Still Life with Guitar

Date

1935

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 34 x W 51.5 cm

Accession number

1987-115

Acquisition method

purchased, 1937

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Mark Gertler 35

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