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Mark Gertler (artist)
British artist (1891 - 1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mark Gertler (born Marks Gertler; 9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939) was a British painter of figure subjects, portraits and still-life.
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Born | Marks Gertler (1891-12-09)9 December 1891 Spitalfields, London, England |
Died | 23 June 1939(1939-06-23) (aged 47) |
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Known for | Portrait painting |
Spouse | Marjorie Greatorex Hodgkinson |
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His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert Cannan's novel Mendel.[2] The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love,[3] and Gombauld in Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow were based on him.[4]