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 1967, in

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, Switzerland. Her father, a cotton merchant, left Egypt in 1956 after

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came to power. She organized her first exhibition when she was 18. Lévy studied art history and politics at the

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and received a BA in Political Science and an MA in Sociology of Art.

Career

In 1987, Lévy completed her first internship for

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in New York. When she came back to Switzerland, she was hired by Simon de Pury to work at

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where she worked for four years. Afterwards, she worked with French art dealer Daniel Malingue on the opening of his gallery, and followed his co-director, Simon Studer, in the creation of an art curation business. Then she joined the team of London's art dealer

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. In 1999, headhunted by François Pinault, Lévy founded and was the international director of the private sales department at

in New York. In 2003, Lévy founded Dominique Lévy Fine Art, a boutique art advisory service with a focus on building long-term relationships with collectors.Melanie Gerlis (November 15, 2021)
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L&M Arts, 2005–2013

In August 2005, Lévy co-founded L&M Arts with

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, which was based in New York and Los Angeles. The bi-coastal gallery provided client services and organized exhibitions of modern and postwar art, as well as new work by such artists as David Hammons and

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Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2013-2017

In September 2013, Dominique Lévy Gallery opened its Manhattan space with the exhibition ''Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly'', which was accompanied by the first public performance in New York of Yves Klein's seminal ''Monotone Silence Symphony''. In October 2014, Dominique Lévy expanded to London, opening a location at historic 22 Old Bond Street, close to the

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in the city's

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district. She co curated an exhibition of

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in New York in collaboration with Emmanuel Perrotin. In 2015, her galleries exhibited

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's color charts, miniatures of

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, Gego's work

Lévy Gorvy, 2017–2021

In 2017, Lévy partnered with art dealer Brett Gorvy, former chairman and international head of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's and they co-founded Levy Gorvy with spaces in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2020, the gallery added a Paris space. In 2019, for the 100th birthday of

, Lévy Gorvy notably organized an exhibition ahead of his retrospective at the Musee du Louvre. The gallery currently represents the estates of Yves Klein,

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and Carol Rama (since 2016) in the United States, as well as artists Enrico Castellani, Boris Mikhailov,

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, and

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.Alex Greenberger (November 23, 2020)
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''.

LGDR

In August 2021, Lévy Gorvy announced plans to join forces with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Amalia Dayan.

Recognition

* 2014: ''Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world'', by ''

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'' * 2013: ''Women in art'', by

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* 2012: ''10 most influential art dealers'', by

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References

External links

Official website

Lévy Gorvy Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Levy, Dominique 1967 births Living people Swiss art dealers People from Lausanne University of Geneva alumni 20th-century Swiss businesswomen 21st-century Swiss businesswomen