MARK GERTLER (1891-1939)
MARK GERTLER (1891-1939)
MARK GERTLER (1891-1939)
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MARK GERTLER (1891-1939)

Portrait of Jean Kemp

Details
MARK GERTLER (1891-1939)
Portrait of Jean Kemp
signed and dated 'Mark/Gertler/31' (upper right)
oil on canvas
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1931.
Provenance
with Leicester Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 1990, lot 261, as 'Portrait of a young girl'.
with Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Mark Gertler, October 1932, possibly no. 1, as 'Head of a girl'.

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Lot Essay

Jean Kemp Hogh was one of Gertler’s pre-eminent models of the 1930s. A schoolfriend of Gertler’s landlady’s daughter, Jean sat for the artist for at least nine works (both paintings and drawings) between 1931 and 1934, most notably for The Mandolinist, 1934 (Tate, London). The present work is likely Gertler’s first painting of her. Gertler refers to her sitting for him in a letter of May 1931.

We are very grateful to Sarah MacDougall for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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