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Marlborough Fine Art was founded in 1946 in London by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer. Both had emigrated to Britain from Austria during the outbreak of war and first met in 1940 as soldiers in the Pioneer Corps of the British Army. In Vienna, Lloyd's family had been antique and picture dealers for three generations, while Fischer dealt in antiquarian books. The gallery opened at 17-18 Old Bond Street in London, selling antiquarian books and a few paintings and initially exhibiting works mainly by Impressionists, Post-Impressionist and French Modern masters. After opening the gallery, they were joined in 1948 by David Somerset, Duke of Beaufort. (English)
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Frank Lloyd, the Vienna-born entrepreneur who built the Marlborough Gallery into the wealthiest, most important art gallery business in the world and then sullied his reputation with his criminal role in the Rothko art scandal of the 1970's, died Tuesday at his home in Nassau, the Bahamas. He was 86 and also had homes in Manhattan and Paris.Mr. Lloyd had used a wheelchair and had been unable to speak since suffering a series of strokes beginning in 1992, but he continued to visit the gallery whenever he was in New York, said his nephew, Pierre Levai, president of Marlborough.A diminutive, dapper man with twinkling blue eyes, Frank Lloyd was known for his toughness, keen business sense and Viennese charm. If he did not invent the idea of the multinational art gallery, he certainly applied the concept more broadly than before, often by forming partnerships with local dealers.At the height of his prominence, from the mid 1960's to the mid-70's, his Marlborough empire included galleries in London, New York, Rome, Zurich, and Toronto and Montreal (in partnership with Mira Godard). (English)