Helly Nahmad (London)
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Helly Nahmad (UK)
Helly Nahmad (b. 23rd November 1976) attended St Paul’s School, London before reading History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. In 1998, he founded Helly Nahmad London in Cork Street, Mayfair, and has built the gallery’s reputation for dealing exclusively in works by Modern and Impressionist masters of the 19th and 20th Century, including Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, René Magritte, Kasimir Malevich, Joan Miró.
Helly Nahmad inherited his love for the arts from his family, who had been influential dealers and now collectors, in Modernist and Impressionist masters for over 50 years. The Nahmad Collection, founded by Joseph ‘Guiseppe’ Nahmad who first started collecting in earnest in Milan in the late 1950s, is now one of the world’s largest and most important private collections. The brothers started out by buying and selling works from the renowned Parisian dealer of Pablo Picasso, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, as well as dealing with some of the world’s most important private collections including Peggy Guggenheim and Baron Thyssen. David Nahmad and his brother Ezra Nahmad were instrumental figures within the international art market, travelling regularly between Paris and Milan in the 1950s, then moving to New York and Japan during the boom of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The family have been based in Monaco ever since. They have become synonymous with the international art market which is well known today. The Nahmad Collection now comprises over 3,000 artworks, many of which are considered to be museum quality, including one of the largest private collections of works by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.
In 2011, Helly Nahmad (UK) organised and curated the first ever exhibition of highlights from The Nahmad Collection, at Kunsthaus Zurich. The exhibition comprised over 100 masterpieces by artists from the Impressionist, Surrealist and Cubist movements, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-August Renoir, Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and George Braque. Works displayed included those which have been in the family collection for decades, and which have rarely been exhibited in public before.
This exhibition was followed in 2013 by ‘Picasso in the Nahmad Collection’ at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, an exhibition of over 120 works from the collection brought together to celebrate the worldwide 40th anniversary of the artist. The exhibition was curated by the Director of the Picasso Museum in Antibes, Jean-Louis Andral, and Marilyn McCully, an expert on the artist.
The first exhibition was described by Helly Nahmad in an interview for the exhibition catalogue as ‘These works are those which are very rare and which we feel especially privileged to own…We hoped to create a coherent experience for the viewer and show what we feel are the highlights.’
Commenting on exhibiting a large proportion of the collection for the first time, Nahmad said, ‘I think part of the attraction for us to exhibit at the Kunsthaus is to see where the collection stands today and how we, and the public, respond to it. Our aim is to look with fresh eyes and learn from this dialogue.’
Scott Reyburn of The International New York Times stated that 'The Collector' "...evoked that “true” collecting spirit." [1] Read the full article here. Further comments and reviews of 'The Collector' can be found at Vogue Italia, [2] Art Das Kunstmagazin [3] and The Guardian [4].