2016 Norwich Native Daughter Marsha Malinowski has 26 years of experience as Senior Vice President in charge of books and manuscripts at Sotheby’s, she created her own enterprise, Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts LLC.
Marsha Malinowski has been involved with some of the most extraordinary sales of manuscripts in auction history. From the sale of Magna Carta for over $21 million to being in charge of the groundbreaking sale of baseball memorabilia from the collection of Barry Halper, which fetched in excess of $24 million, Marsha’s expertise and range of experience is unparalleled. Single-handedly, Marsha carved out the collecting field of artists’ letters.
She has brought to the market stunning collections, which have included letters by Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Magritte, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Giacometti to name just a few. From history to literature––a letter by Catherine of Aragon while imprisoned to a Sherlock Holmes manuscript story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; from science to music––Einstein’s Theory of Relativity manuscript to a cache of Chopin letters, Marsha’s depth of knowledge in all fields of manuscript collecting is second to none. Marsha Malinowski has a B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A. from Brown University.
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