Mark Gertler, (British, 1891-1939)

Trees at Banchory Sanatorium, Scotland

Trees at Banchory Sanatorium, Scotland
signed and dated 'Mark/Gertler DEC 20' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25.5 x 35.5cm (10 1/16 x 14in).

The present lot was painted during the Artist's stay at Banchory Sanatorium in Scotland, where he completed a number of landscape paintings. The artist had some difficulty painting during his stay there, writing to his close friend Kot (Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky) on 26 November 1920: 'I started painting a landscape seen from my bedroom window. Somehow it did not go well. I got agitated and hot, so I chucked it in disgust and despair...Today I feel better, especially as I took up my painting again and this time it went better and now I hope to do about an hour's work a day'.