Date: Fri 26-Mar-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: DONNAM

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Dominique Levy To Head Private Sales

NEW YORK CITY -- Dominique Levy, the Swiss-born dealer and consultant, will

join Christie's in March as head of the firm's new division, Christie's

Private Sales, handling auctions of Twentieth Century and contemporary art

worldwide. She will be based in New York at the firm's townhouse on East 59th

Street.

Most recently, Levy was an art consultant for the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in

London, where she oversaw the gallery's relations with American artists and

international collectors. From 1993 to 1998, she was a senior partner with

Simon Studer at LS Art, Art Advisory Service in Geneva, Switzerland, where she

curated collections and exhibitions for museums, foundations and cultural

institutions, as well as advised on the buying and selling of works of art.

While at LS Art, Levy managed numerous exhibitions on an international scale

in New York, Oslo, Geneva, Parma and Singapore. In 1992, she was director,

sales manager and curator at the Daniel Malingue Gallery in Geneva.

Levy began her career in the art world at Christie's in New York in 1987,

working in the Contemporary art department. She later joined Sotheby's Geneva

and was the manager of the Impressionist, Modern and contemporary paintings

department.

Levy is a member of the executive committee of Amamco (Association of friends

of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva) and she is the

international chairman of Young Friends of the Israel Museum.

She earned her Master's in political sciences and sociology in Paris and the

Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Levy is fluent in French,

English and Italian.