 Greenwich, CT – Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, the parent company of Martin Lawrence Galleries, has loaned a Marc Chagall original painting to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The painting, “La fenetre dans le ciel” (Window in the Sky), belongs to the private collection of David and Leslee Rogath, owners of Martin Lawrence Galleries.
The Chagall painting is one of several pieces from the Rogath collection being loaned to the Bruce Museum for it’s two-part exhibition, “Pleasures of Collecting.” The exhibition features works from the private collections of Greenwich residents. The first part features a survey of art before 1900, and is currently on view through early January, 2003. The Chagall piece will be featured in Part II of the exhibit, which will spotlight twentieth century and contemporary art, along with other pieces that the Rogaths are lending; “La Pousette” by Picasso, “Festa” by George Tooker, “Conquerant” by Rene Magritte, “Black Flower in Seventeen” by Alexander Calder, “Spanish Dancer” by Joan Miro, and “Reds” by Mark Rothko.
In recent years, David and Leslee Rogath have loaned art by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Sam Francis, and Andy Warhol to major museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the Royal Museum of Brussels and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
Martin Lawrence Galleries, America's premier gallery of fine art, represents many of today's most
important artists including Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Fanny Brennan, Erté, Kerry Hallam, Liudmila Kondakova, Thomas McKnight, and Bruce Ricker
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