Mark Gertler's Merry-Go-Round in Spitalfields: London #50

This roundel, or coal hole cover, is in front of Mark Gertler's former house at 32 Elder Street, Spitalfields, and is one of 25 different ones made for Spitalfields by Keith Bowler in 1995. It depicts a detail of Gertler's painting Merry-Go-Round (1916), which clearly shows Gertler's perception of war as absurd and horrific.

Below is an earlier link to another post I made about Gertler:

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Mark Gertler in Spitalfields

Mark Gertler in Spitalfields, London

32 Elder Street, Spitalfields.

'MARK GERTLER

1891–1939

Painter

lived here'

Gertler inspired several writers to include representations of him in their novels: in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Loerke's huge frieze is modelled on Gertler's painting Merry-Go-Round; Huxley's Gombauld in Chrome Yellow is modelled on him, in which he is described as 'a black-haired young corsair of thirty, with flashing teeth and luminous dark eyes'; and Gilbert Cannan's Mendel: A Story of youth (1916) bases his central character on Gertler's early life, including his relationship with Dora Carrington and C. R. W. Nevinson.

 

Below is a link to a post I later made when I returned here to take a photo of the coal hole cover sculpture I missed:

 

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Mark Gertler's Merry-Go-Round in Spitalfields