Martin Lawrence Galleries

Martin Lawrence Galleries was founded in 1975 and operates 12 fine art galleries in the United States specializing in original paintings, sculpture and limited edition graphics.

Martin Lawrence has a substantial collection of artwork, all of which is company owned, including works of art by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Sam Francis, and Keith Haring. Martin Lawrence Galleries is the publisher and representative for Erté, Robert Deyber, Liudmila Kondakova, Felix Mas, Philippe Bertho, Kerry Hallam, and René Lalonde.

Martin Lawrence has also held many stores relating to pop art and decor. One of their more famous acquisitions was the store Think Big!. The store however was sold and soon disbanded to pay for Martin Lawrence Galleries' mounting debt. The Think Big! product line has now been rejuvenated by GreatBigStuff.

In the last 15 years, hundreds of works of art have been lent to museums around the world. This includes the loan of works by: Picasso, Chagall, Magritte, Calder, Warhol, Francis and other artists to institutions that include:

  • Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
  • Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
  • City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Discovery Museum, Bridgeport Connecticut
  • Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
  • Georges Pompidou Center, Paris
  • Institut Valencia d'Art Museum (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Las Vegas Museum of Art
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  • Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
  • Louisiana Museum, Denmark
  • Malmo Konsthall, Sweden
  • Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal
  • Museé Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels
  • Museo del Risorgimento, Rome
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
  • Museu Picasso, Barcelona
  • Nassau County Museum, New York
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  • Ogunquit Museum, Ogunquit, Maine
  • Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut
  • The Menil Collection, Houston
  • University Art Museum/University of California at Berkeley
  • Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
  • Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan

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