Brett Paul Gorvy (born July 1964) is a British

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. He is a co-founder and partner (with

Dominique Lévy Dominique Astrid Lévy (born June 1967) is a Swiss art dealer, and co-founder and partner, with Brett Gorvy, of Lévy Gorvy, a gallery with offices in New York City, London, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Paris. Early life Lévy was born in June 1 ...

) of Lévy Gorvy, a gallery with offices in

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, and

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Early life

Brett Gorvy was born in South Africa, one of four children of billionaire financier Manfred Gorvy and his wife, Lydia.

Career

In December 2016, Gorvy left his position as chairman and international head of Post-war and Contemporary Art at

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after 23 years. It was then he set up his gallery with

. This led to the rebranding of Levy's Madison Avenue Gallery as Lévy Gorvy.

Personal life

Gorvy is married to Amy Gold, an independent art dealer, who worked for Christie's for ten years, before becoming a senior director at the New York gallery L&M Arts, run by

and

Robert Mnuchin Robert E. Mnuchin (born 1933) is an American art dealer and former banker. He is the founder of the Mnuchin Gallery at 45 East 78th Street, New York. He is the father of Steven Mnuchin, who was the United States Secretary of the Treasury in the ...

. They live on the

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in Manhattan and collect works on paper from the 1930s onwards. They have one daughter together.

References

External links

Lévy Gorvy Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorvy, Brett 1964 births Living people British art dealers South African art dealers South African emigrants to the United Kingdom