Sketch for ‘The Servant Girl’

Catalogue entry

N06232 DRAWING FOR ‘THE SERVANT GIRL’ 1923
 
Inscr. ‘Mark Gertler - 23’ t.r.
Pencil on paper-board, 16×12 1/4 (40·5×31).
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954.
Coll: Purchased by Sir Edward Marsh at the Goupil Gallery 1923.
Exh: Goupil Gallery, February 1923 (2), as ‘Study for “The Maid”’; Contemporary British Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–December 1929 (157), as ‘Girl in Apron’; British Council, Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg, 1936 (422), as ‘Girl in a Pinafore’; Ben Uri Art Gallery, November–December 1944 (40); Whitechapel Art Gallery, June–July 1949 (D·13); Arts Council tour, Some 20th Century English Paintings and Drawings, Wales, 1950 (61); The Collection of the Late Sir Edward Marsh, Leicester Galleries, May 1953 (7); Arts Council tour, Paintings and Drawings from the Sir Edward Marsh Collection, 1953 (32).

A preliminary drawing for ‘The Servant Girl’, N05311.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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