Grace Borgenicht Brandt

Grace Borgenicht Brandt (January 25, 1915 – July 19, 2001) was an American art dealer.

Biography Brandt was born Grace Lubell on January 25, 1915, as one of five children to a Jewish family in New York City. Her parents, Jeanette Lillian Salny and Samuel L. Lubell (born Samuel Lazarus Lubelsky), were both from Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland. Samuel founded the Bell Oil and Gas Company, an independent oil refiner in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Her siblings include oil executive Benedict I. Lubell and Shirley Black Kash (formerly married to Eli M. Black).

She attended Calhoun School and the New College at Columbia University. In 1934, while still a student, she studied in the studio of the painter André L'Hote in Paris. she was married to dress manufacturer Jack Borgenicht; they had three daughters before divorcing, Jan Borgenicht Schwartz, Berta Borgenicht Kerr, and Lois Borgenicht. (Jack would go on to have seven more children including artist Ruth Borgenicht). On July 17, 1956, she married her second husband Norman Sachs Jr., divorcing in December 1960. The same month, on December 26, she married her third husband, artist Warren Brandt. She had a stepdaughter, Isabella Brandt Johansen She lived in Manhattan and Watermill, New York. Brandt died in Manhattan on July 19, 2001, at the age of 86 after an accidental fall. Services were held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel.