Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mark Gertler NPG Ax140588

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lady Ottoline Morrell

Born into a Polish-Jewish immigrant family in Spitalfields, in 1908 Gertler enrolled in the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks and alongside Paul Nash, where he befriended Edward Marsh and Dora Carrington. Lady Ottoline Morrell became his patron, through whom he met members of the Bloomsbury Group. Gertler was a conscientious objector and used the de-humanising lessons of Vorticism to create, in Merry-Go-Round (1916, Tate Gallery), one of the most powerful images of the futility of war.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.