TIAMSA is pleased to announce its sixteenth book discussion: Julien Levy: The Man. His
Gallery. His Legacy (Jean and Julien Levy Foundation for the Arts, 2023). Authors Beth Gates
Warren and Marie Difilippantonio will discuss their new book.
The event will be moderated by Véronique Chagnon-Burke (Chair-TIAMSA and Co-
Founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives). All are welcome to join the discussion!
To attend the discussion please register on the link.
About the book:
Julien Levy (1906–1981) is best remembered today as the art dealer who brought Surrealism to
the United States. His eponymous New York City gallery (1931–1949) was generally regarded
as the place to view cutting-edge contemporary work by such artists as Salvador Dalí, Max
Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Pavel
Tchelitchew. An in-depth study of Levy, the artists he represented, and the influence he wielded
during the 1930s and 1940s is long overdue. Consequently, the Jean and Julien Levy
Foundation charged the authors with the responsibility of giving readers an uncensored,
insider’s view of Levy and his art world activities.
Volume 1 presents a biography of Levy, including a comprehensive exhibition chronology and
the evolution of Levy’s career during his eighteen years as an art dealer. Volumes 2, 3, and 4
contain in-depth chapters discussing each of the approximately 230 solo and group exhibitions
held at the Julien Levy Gallery and highlighting the artists’ careers prior to their exhibition(s) at
the gallery, the critical response, and the artists’ interactions with Levy. Due to the authors’
unique and longstanding associations with the Levy Foundation, they have been able to
incorporate important information previously unknown about the workings of the gallery and
Levy’s relationships with his artists, allowing them to clarify or correct statements made in
Levy’s 1977 Memoir of an Art Gallery and other publications.
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