Mark Gertler 1891-1939
St Tropez, 1925
oil on canvas
37 x 59 cm
framed: 53 x 75 cm
framed: 53 x 75 cm
initalled and dated (lower right corner) 'MG 25'
2024-04
Copyright The Artist
Gertler spent January and February 1925 in St. Tropez in the South of France. In the autumn of 2024 he had been briefly engaged to a North London Jewish girl,...
Gertler spent January and February 1925 in St. Tropez in the South of France. In the autumn of 2024 he had been briefly engaged to a North London Jewish girl, named Phyllis Wilkinson, and had booked a cottage in St. Tropez for their honeymoon. After breaking the engagement, he travelled to St. Tropez in the company of his friend and patron Walter Taylor and painted three fine, mellow landscapes of the view from the cottage window.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Francis Guilfoyle with Art Fund supportExhibitions
2002 Mark Gertler: A New Perspective, Ben Uri Gallery - The London Jewish Museum of ArtLiterature
Sarah MacDougall, Mark Gertler: A New Perspective (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2002), cat. no. 34, illus., p. 18;Sarah MacDougall, Mark Gertler (London: John Murray, 2002), p. 233.
