India Ross
Associate Specialist
Lot 199
Mark Gertler(British, 1891-1939)Portrait of Anne Gertler
Ending from 26 November 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge£5,000 - £7,000
Ask about this lot
Catherine King
Senior Specialist
Mark Gertler (British, 1891-1939)
Portrait of Anne Gertler
signed and dated 'Mark Gertler-1911-' (lower right)
oil on canvas
86 x 61cm (33 7/8 x 24in).
signed and dated 'Mark Gertler-1911-' (lower right)
oil on canvas
86 x 61cm (33 7/8 x 24in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Miss C. Gertler
Their Sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1973, lot 67
Sale; Christie's, London, 4 March 1977, lot 41
Exhibited
London, Ben Uri Gallery, Jankel Adler, Mark Gertler, Bernard Meninsky, 19 November-8 December 1957, no. 6
London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Modern British Paintings, 1900-1934, October 1981
Literature
J. Woodeson, Mark Gertler, Biographer of a Painter, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1972, p. 359 (titled as Mrs Harry Gertler, Mrs Celia Gertler)
The present lot is an early example by Mark Gertler. The three-quarter length portrait depicts the artist's sister-in-law, Ann Gertler. During the 1910s and the time of this portrait, Gertler was living with his brother's family in an attic studio at 32 Elder Street, Spitalfields. Harry Gertler, his wife Anne and their baby, Renée, occupied the floors below. Gertler produced a series of family portraits in this period, including The Artist's Brother, Harry in the same year (Ben Uri Collection) and culminating in the well-known portrait, The Artist's Mother, in the Tate's collection. Executed shortly after his studies at the Slade School of Art, the present lot demonstrates Gertler's early academic discipline, balanced with the artist's expressive tendencies that would later define his mature style.
We are grateful to Sarah MacDougall for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.