Collections
The Thomas Segal Gallery has worked to build important collections for over thirty years. Shortly after the gallery's inception in 1976, Thomas Segal purchased part of the collection of Louis Cert from Harvard University. The collection consisted largely of works by Alexander Calder and Joan Miro. The gallery then went on to sell the collection internationally.
In the 1970s, Thomas Segal also sold a major Lichtenstein painting, Girl with Beach Ball III, which is now part of the Meyerhoff collection of the National Gallery in Washington. It was recently featured on the cover of the 2006 Whitney Museum's catalogue. In the 1980s, Thomas Segal sold several, major Miquel Barcelo paintings to the Banco de Espana (Bank of Spain) and then partnered with Leo Castelli in the sale of a large, outdoor Claes Oldenburg to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Geometric Mouse, Scale A, 1975. This sculpture can currently be seen in the museum's sculpture garden. The Thomas Segal Gallery brokered the sale of many Impressionist and Modern paintings from Japan in the 1990s, including works by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Picasso. The gallery also built Modern and Contemporary collections, in three different buildings, for the University of Baltimore.
Today, the Thomas Segal Gallery has entered its fourth decade with an expanded gallery space in Baltimore. We continue to work with collectors, both beginning and experienced. We can help you to form new, individualized collections or guide and add focus to existing collections.
