Martin Lawrence Galleries
The depth of Martin Lawrence Galleries' collection is quite staggering. It includes hundreds of Warhol screenprints, and paintings, over 100 paintings by Marc Chagall, important etchings and linocuts by Picasso, upwards of 100 paintings on paper and canvas by Sam Francis and rare subway drawings by Keith Haring.
The roots of the gallery go back to the 1980's when it was owned by Martin Blinder who commissioned, purchased, and published works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf. While Blinder had to take the company into bankruptcy it would live on after it was purchased in lieu of debt to art dealer and publisher David Rogath. With the market surge in the value of Warhol and Haring works that were once overlooked pieces like Warhol's Soupbox paintings (which Blinder commissioned) have now become highly sought after.
Under Rogath, whose own personal holdings are vast, he was able to supplement Martin Lawrence Galleries' offerings with large and/or important purchases of Picasso, Chagall, Sam Francis, Warhol, Calder and Magritte. In 2001 the Martin Lawrence Gallery in Beverly Hills exhibited 30+ "Toy Paintings" by Andy Warhol, the first such exhibition since the original show at Bruno Bischofberger's Zurich gallery in 1983. The Beverly Hills gallery followed up with Marc Chagall exhibition in 2002 featuring 6 large scale works in oil on canvas and another in 2003 featuring a complete signed suite of Chagall's "Circus". In 2002 the gallery loaned over 100 Sam Francis paintings to the Las Vegas Museum of Art. An 80" x 80" Warhol self portrait (with the artist's spiky haired wig) in the galleries holdings which was exhibited at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Selections from Mr. Rogath's personal collection of important Rene Magritte paintings have been seen at the LACMA, the SFMOMA, Museo del Risorgimento in Rome, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Belgium.
Dane Jensen worked with MLG from in California from 1999 to 2003.
The roots of the gallery go back to the 1980's when it was owned by Martin Blinder who commissioned, purchased, and published works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf. While Blinder had to take the company into bankruptcy it would live on after it was purchased in lieu of debt to art dealer and publisher David Rogath. With the market surge in the value of Warhol and Haring works that were once overlooked pieces like Warhol's Soupbox paintings (which Blinder commissioned) have now become highly sought after.
Under Rogath, whose own personal holdings are vast, he was able to supplement Martin Lawrence Galleries' offerings with large and/or important purchases of Picasso, Chagall, Sam Francis, Warhol, Calder and Magritte. In 2001 the Martin Lawrence Gallery in Beverly Hills exhibited 30+ "Toy Paintings" by Andy Warhol, the first such exhibition since the original show at Bruno Bischofberger's Zurich gallery in 1983. The Beverly Hills gallery followed up with Marc Chagall exhibition in 2002 featuring 6 large scale works in oil on canvas and another in 2003 featuring a complete signed suite of Chagall's "Circus". In 2002 the gallery loaned over 100 Sam Francis paintings to the Las Vegas Museum of Art. An 80" x 80" Warhol self portrait (with the artist's spiky haired wig) in the galleries holdings which was exhibited at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Selections from Mr. Rogath's personal collection of important Rene Magritte paintings have been seen at the LACMA, the SFMOMA, Museo del Risorgimento in Rome, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Belgium.
Dane Jensen worked with MLG from in California from 1999 to 2003.
