- Artist
- Mark Gertler 1891–1939
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 559 mm
frame: 956 × 754 × 48 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Art Fund (Thomas Balston Bequest) 1968
- Reference
- T01044
Catalogue entry
Mark Gertler 1891–1939
T01044 Mandolinist 1934
Inscribed ‘Mark Gertler 34’t. r.
Oil on board, 30 x 22 (77 x 56).
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1968.
Coll: Bought by Thomas Balston from Gertler’s exhibition in 1934; bequeathed by him to the N.A.C.F. 1967 for presentation to a public collection.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, October 1934 (92); Whitechapel Art Gallery, June–July 1949 (62); Arts Council, British Painting 1925–1950: Second Anthology, New Burlington Galleries, June 1951 and tour (27); Golden Jubilee Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Bradford, March–June 1954 (249).
Repr: Noel Carrington (ed.), Mark Gertler: Selected Letters, 1965, opp. p. 238.
This work appears to have been painted in June or July 1934 in Hampstead. Gertler wrote to Thomas Balston on 6 July 1934 that he would be leaving for a holiday in Spain on 12 July. On 5 October he wrote to him again: ‘I am very glad you chose the Mandolinist – it is the last thing I did before the holiday and one of my favourites. You must have noticed that I’ve kept it considerably higher in key than the others-with I think a satisfactory result. The little one is not a sketch – it is as finished as any of them and one of the most beautiful things in the show...’
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1967–1968, London 1968.
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