Mark Gertler (artist)

Mark Gertler
Self-portrait (1920)
Born
Marks Gertler

(1891-12-09)9 December 1891
Spitalfields, London, England
Died23 June 1939(1939-06-23) (aged 47)
Highgate, London, England
Education
Known forPortrait painting
SpouseMarjorie Greatorex Hodgkinson

Mark Gertler (born Marks Gertler; 9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939) was a British painter of figure subjects, portraits and still-life.

His early life and his relationship with Dora Carrington were the inspiration for Gilbert Cannan's novel Mendel. The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, and Gombauld in Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow were based on him.