Mark GERTLER English 1891-1939 The apple woman and her husband 1912 oil on canvas 66.0 x 56.0 cm Purchased 1953 3002-4		Mark Gertler was born at Spitalfields in the East End of London, son of a poor Polish migrant family. He had no formal art training until he was fifteen, when he attended evening classes at the Regent St Polytechnic. In 1908 he won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art. The apple woman and her husband was painted just after he left the Slade and was loosely based on the subject set for the Slade Sketch Club in 1912, which was the 'Apple gatherers'. His parents Louis and Golda Gertler are the models for the painting and posed for numerous compositions in this period. The painting received critical acclaim when it was shown at the New English Art Club in 1912, where it was praised for its sureness of purpose, fine colour and strong sense of form.
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