Mark Gertler: Still Life with Bowl, Spoon and Apples

And finally from the PCF volumes, two pictures from Northumberland, Tees Valley & Tyne and Wear: this is Still Life with Bowl, Spoon and Apples 1913 by Mark Gertler and it's at the Hatton Gallery. This couple of weeks of exploring the PCF in detail has made us - well, not exactly indignant because the Foundation itself is doing an amazing thing, but thoughtful and concerned and a tad bewildered. In exactly the same way that thousands of extraordinary books disappear, so thousands of amazing paintings are hidden, forgotten, locked away, overlooked, whatever you like to call it. There would be a case for insisting by law that there were two or three museums spread over the UK that had changing exhibitions drawn from all the public galleries up and down the country; or there would at least be a case for insisting that the galleries themselves had to display the work on a rotating basis rather than leaving it in a basement. This is obviously a subject about which art historians know a huge amount and we at Persephone Books are mere beginners. But the PCF provokes a lot of hard thinking.