Marlborough Fine Art was founded in London, England, in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer. In 1963, a gallery was opened in Manhattan, New York, USA, on Madison Avenue and 57th Street, which later relocated in 1971 to its present location, 40 West 57th Street. The gallery operates another New York space on West 24th Street called Marlborough Chelsea, which opened in 2007. They also have galleries in Madrid, Monaco, Barcelona, and Santiago.

History

In 1948, the two initial founders were joined by a third partner, David Somerset, since 1984 the Duke of Beaufort, and now chairman of Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd. Their early exhibitions were widely reviewed and by 1952 Marlborough was selling masterpieces of late 19th century including bronzes by Edgar Degas and paintings by Mary Cassatt, Paul Signac, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, and drawings by Constantin Guys and Vincent van Gogh.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Marlborough put on a string of prime 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 major Kurt Schwitters show in 1963. In the 1960s Marlborough staged exhibitions by Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock and Egon Schiele.