Martin Lawrence Galleries was founded in 1975 and operates 10 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, Douglas Hofmann, Philippe Bertho, Kerry Hallam, and René Lalonde.
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