Mark Gertler. Fragments of a biography - ACE109.5

Carrington leaves Gertler’s studio. Gardens at Garsington. Bell and Fry ignore Gertler as he sings a ribald song; Bell criticises his work and Fry says that French art is better than English. Gertler painting; he says his ambition is now "to paint as well as Cézanne" and comments on his lack of money. Rain coming through his roof onto his work. The Bathers (1917-18). Self Portrait (1918). Gertler talks about contracting tuberculosis. Trees at a Sanatorium (1921). Gertler in his studio, working on The Queen of Sheba (1922). The Coster Woman (1923). He talks about becoming depressed when comparing himself to Matisse or Picasso. His wife, Marjorie Hodgkinson, paints something on his canvas. Bouquet and Sunshade (1931). Gertler talks about his experiments with colour and line. Gertler and Hodgkinson playing with their son on the Heath; he remarks that the boy was born the same year that Lytton Strachey died and Carrington sent them a wedding present. Gertler and Carrington; he says he’s not selling much. His VO talks of Carrington’s suicide. Homage to Roger Fry (1934). Violin and Bust (1934). Gertler’s VO talks of visiting exhibitions of Matisse and Picasso in Paris and describing his own show as "a complete failure", though he had teaching work.