Gladys Marie Spencer-Churchill (née Deacon), Duchess of Marlborough; Mark Gertler and an unknown woman Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Gladys Marie Spencer-Churchill (née Deacon), Duchess of Marlborough; Mark Gertler and an unknown woman NPG Ax142529
© 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.










