Marlborough Fine Art

Coordinates: 51°30′30″N 0°8′28″W / 51.50833°N 0.14111°W / 51.50833; -0.14111
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Mill on the River (1900–06) by Paul Cézanne at Marlborough Fine Art, London.
River Landscape with a Ferry (1625) by Jan van Goyen, sold by Marlborough Fine Art in 1954.

Marlborough Fine Art was founded in London in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer.

West 25th Street, which opened in 2007. It briefly opened a Lower East Side space on Broome Street
.

History

In 1948, the two initial founders were joined by a third partner, David Somerset, from 1984 the

Auguste Renoir, and drawings by Constantin Guys and Vincent van Gogh.[citation needed
]

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Marlborough put on a string of exhibitions related to expressionism and the modern German tradition: "Art in Revolt, Germany 1905–1925", "Kandinsky, the Road to Abstraction" and "The Painters of the Bauhaus". These were followed by a Kurt Schwitters show in 1963. In the 1960s Marlborough staged exhibitions by Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock and Egon Schiele.[citation needed]

In the 1960s, Frank Lloyd moved to New York City and in 1972 his son Gilbert Lloyd assumed control of Marlborough Fine Art in London. At this time Pierre Levai, Frank Lloyd's nephew, took over the running of Marlborough in New York. During the 1970s and 1980s, Marlborough staged exhibitions by Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, R. B. Kitaj, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Max Beckmann, Max Bill, and Henri Matisse. The gallery organized the "Schwitters in Exile" exhibition of 1981 which renewed interest in the late work of this artist.

During the 1980s and 1990s, exhibitions of work by

Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum in Kendal, northern England, which travelled to the Yale Center for British Art in the USA. Another retrospective exhibition of Rego's work, curated by Marco Livingstone, was shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, in 2007. The exhibition then travelled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., in 2008. In 2005, London held an exhibition of prints by the 90-year-old Louise Bourgeois. Lucian Freud's etchings was followed by an exhibition by the American artist Dale Chihuly
.

During the 1990s, Marlborough took another new step in exhibiting contemporary art from China. In 1953 Marlborough had already staged a small exhibition of two Chinese painters in London and during the 1960s Marlborough exhibited the abstract paintings of the Taiwanese artist Lin Sho-Yu [zh] (who worked in London under the name of Richard Lin [de; fr]). The gallery exhibited "New Art from China: Post 1979" at the London gallery in 1994.[1]

In 2019, the galleries were consolidated under the direction of Max Levai. Levai began working with the organization in 2012 where he focused on creating exhibitions under the gallery subdivisions of Marlborough Chelsea and Marlborough Contemporary.[3]

Notable exhibitions

In a 2010 exhibition called "Celebrating the Muse: Women in

Picasso's Prints from 1905–1968", the gallery exhibited 204 prints by Pablo Picasso.[4]

Rothko case

Before being stopped by a court ruling, Marlborough Gallery sold more than 100 paintings by the late artist Mark Rothko which it had acquired at fraudulently undervalued prices and split the profits with the Rothko executor from whom it had obtained them.[5] In 1975, a New York State court removed the executors, canceled contracts with Marlborough and fined them and the gallery $9.2 million.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "About". Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Marlborough New York". Marlborough Gallery, New York. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  3. ISSN 0029-7712
    . Retrieved 1 July 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ Smith, Roberta (8 April 2010). "Conversation About Picasso Spanning 4 City Blocks". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  5. ^ Adams, Tim (13 October 2012). "Marlborough Fine Art tries to throw off burden of the Rothko scandal". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  6. ^ Dobrzynski, Judith H. (2 November 1998). "A Betrayal The Art World Can't Forget; The Battle for Rothko's Estate Altered Lives and Reputations". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2011.

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