Mark Gertler, 1891-1939

This was the household easel at The White House, Charmouth that Gertler used when he painted there. 
To be sold together with Gertler's paint box (including his uncleaned palette, tin bottles and paintbrushes); the artist's Staffordshire porcelain figure, Harvest, depicted in The Harvester, exhibited by Leicester Galleries, March 1928; a blue vase depicted in the background of Gertler's portrait of the present owner's mother; the Heal's design sketch for a chaise long, also depicted in the portrait; a wooden box carved with partridges on the lid (probaby Omega Workshops), inscribed from Mark Gertler to Christine (the present owner's mother) in pencil on the inside of the lid; and an album containing archive material related to the artist: 2 photographs of Gertler with the present owner and his family, two unused postcards, a colour reproduction of Gertler's Seascape from The White House Garden, 3 original exhibition catalogues for solo and group shows of the artist's work held at The Groupil Gallery 1926, The Leicester Galleries, 1928 and Ben Uri Gallery, 1944, 3 invitations to Gertler exhibitions at Alex. Reid & Lefevre circa 1926 and The Leicester Galleries, 1928 and 1932, a collection of newspaper cuttings, and a letter from Marjorie Gertler to the present owner's father.