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Servant Girl
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954
paper unique graphite
Sketch for ‘The Servant Girl’
support: 406 × 311 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1954
<p><b>N06232</b> DRAWING FOR ‘THE SERVANT GIRL’ 1923
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Mark Gertler - 23’ t.r.
<br/>Pencil on paper-board, 16×12 1/4 (40·5×31).
<br/>Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh through the Contemporary Art Society 1954.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Edward Marsh at the Goupil Gallery 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Goupil Gallery, February 1923 (2), as ‘Study for “The Maid”’; <i>Contemporary British Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–December 1929 (157), as ‘Girl in Apron’; British Council, <i>Empire Exhibition</i>, Johannesburg, 1936 (422), as ‘Girl in a Pinafore’; Ben Uri Art Gallery, November–December 1944 (40); Whitechapel Art Gallery, June–July 1949 (D·13); Arts Council tour, <i>Some 20th Century English Paintings and Drawings</i>, Wales, 1950 (61); <i>The Collection of the Late Sir Edward Marsh</i>, Leicester Galleries, May 1953 (7); Arts Council tour, <i>Paintings and Drawings from the Sir Edward Marsh Collection</i>, 1953 (32).</p>
<p>A preliminary <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> for ‘The Servant Girl’, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gertler-the-servant-girl-n05311" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05311</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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