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The Prodigal Son · Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle (English)
22 July 2024
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Founded in the 1960s by Harry Fischer, a Viennese emigre who had previously worked at Marlborough Fine Art with Frank Lloyd. Continued by his son Wolfgang, who closed it in the early 1990s when the lease came up for renewal, and retired to Vienna. (British English)
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Measured in terms of money, Marlborough is the biggest and most successful commercial enterprise in the world dealing in modern art. The gallery has quickly blossomed from a small,, two‐man operation that Mr. Lloyd ands, a friend, Harry Fischer, fourided on Bond Street in London in 1946, into a gigantic complex stretching from New York to Tokyo.It is estimated that Marlborough's annual sales volume exceeds $30‐million. It has more than 125 employes, represents approximately 70 renowned living artists and handles the estates of 14 modern masters like Jackson Pollock, David Smith and Kurt Schwitters.“Marlborough is no longer gallery in the traditional sense,” says one New York art dealer. “It is big business, a conglomerate like General Foods. It is an empire and possesses the power of an International cartel. No one can compete with it.”In addition to its well‐known galleries in London, Rome and New York, Marlborough recently opened branches in Zurich, Montreal and Toronto. It has representatives in such farflung cities as Madrid, Sydney and Johannesburg. Soon Marlborough will occupy an entire building in the embassy area of Tokyo. (English)
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In what appeared to be almost simultaneous actions the Marlborough Gallery which was assessed $9.2 million in fines and damages by Surrogate Millard L. Midonick last week for wrongdoing in its dealings with the estate of the late abstract expresionist painter Mark Rothko, has resigned from and been expelled by the Art Dealers Association of America, an organization formed to promote and uphold ethical practices among dealers.The expulsion, announced yesterday, followed quickly on the heels of a letter of resignation sent by Marlborough last Saturday to Ralph F. Colin, administrative vice president of the association. The letter, signed by Richard L. Plaut Jr., vice president and administrator of the gallery, charged Mr. Colin with “impropriety” for a statement released in behalf of the association's board last week that said the court's opinion contained “findings and views that are most disturbing.” The statement went on to say that an emergency meeting of the board would be called to consider what action should be taken. (English)
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But what provoked the A.D.A. was the discovery, reported by John Canaday in the New York Times, that last May the Metropolitan had secretly sold two paintings to the Liechtenstein branch of a leading international dealer, Marlborough Fine Art. The pictures were Henri Rousseau's The Tropics and The Olive Pickers by Van Gogh. Last week the Met disclosed that two more of its paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, had also been traded to Marlborough for two unnamed works of art. Though the Metropolitan refuses to confirm or deny it, it is an open secret in the art world that these are a painting by Clyfford Still and a sculpture by David Smith, both of whom are represented by Marlborough. (English)
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The painting, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, was purchased by award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Lehman in 1964 from the Marlborough Gallery in London. In 2016, Mr. Lehman transferred ownership of the work to his family’s foundation to be sold at auction. It was the auction house, Christie’s, that recognized the painting’s potentially questionable provenance and contacted Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG), which represents the Jewish community of Vienna, about the painting’s history. IKG recognized Eva Zirkl as the painting’s true owner. Ms. Zirkl, who has had other works by Egon Schiele returned to her, is the heir of Karl Mayländer, a Jewish businessman and art collector who was killed during the Holocaust. (English)
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Metromod Archive (English)
25 January 2023
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- enwiki Marlborough Fine Art
- eswiki Galería Marlborough
- ruwiki Галерея Мальборо