Helly Nahmad (New York)
| Helly Nahmad | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Hillel Nahmad Circa 1978 |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Dalton School |
| Occupation | Art collector, art dealer |
| Organization | Helly Nahmad Gallery |
| Relatives |
David Nahmad (father) Joe Nahmad (uncle) Ezra Nahmad (uncle) |
| Website | Helly Nahmad Gallery |
Helly Nahmad (born circa 1978) is an American art dealer and art collector. In 2000 he founded the Helly Nahmad Gallery in Manhattan, New York, which holds several fine art exhibitions each year featuring artists such as Pablo Picasso,Chaim Soutine, Francis Bacon, and Giorgio de Chirico.
In 2014, he was sentenced to 12 months in prison (and served four) after pleading guilty to a federal charge, "operating an illegal gambling business".
Hillel "Helly" Nahmad was born circa 1978. The son of art dealer David Nahmad, his extended family had developed a reputation as art collectors and dealers "predominantly in 19th- and 20th-century art" out of countries such as Italy and Monaco. Nahmad spent his childhood in Manhattan, New York and at a young age would shadow his father to fine art galleries, auctions, and museums. His father recollects that Nahmad was "scoping out antiques at Sotheby’s auctions" by five years of age, developing a fascination with artists such as Claude Monet by the age of twelve. His younger brother, Joe, would also go on to be active in art. Nahmad attended the private Dalton School in New York's Upper East Side. According to a former school official, he was expelled in his senior year for "unclear" reasons. Nahmad has refuted this retelling and states he missed school while traveling and turned down an opportunity to repeat his senior year. He attended part of an art course at Christie's in 1997.
In 2000 he purchased the Davlyn Gallery and changed the name to the Helly Nahmad Gallery. The gallery since the 1990s has been located in the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Nahmad’s gallery would go on to host several fine art exhibitions at the gallery per year, starting with the Sounds of Colours exhibition in 2004, which displayed the works of Wassily Kandinsky. The following year the gallery held two major exhibitions, a retrospective on Fernand Léger and a celebration of the work of Amedeo Modigliani. In 2006 and 2007 his gallery held both a Max Ernst and a Pablo Picasso exhibition, followed by a second Picasso exhibition titled Picasso's Bodegones in 2008. Also in 2008, the gallery held an exhibition that collected the works of Gustave Moreau. The Helly Nahmad Gallery New York then oversaw the display of a Jean Dubuffet collection and an Alexander Calder retrospective in 2009. In 2010 the gallery curated a Sam Francis exhibition.
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