Helly Nahmad

Hillel "Helly" Nahmad (born 23 November 1976) is a billionaire UK-based art dealer.

Early life Hillel "Helly" Nahmad was born on 23 November 1976, the son of fellow art dealer Ezra Nahmad. He attended St Paul's School before studyinging History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1997, he had a course in Italian nationality.

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. The exhibition was curated by the Director of the Musée Picasso in Antibes, Jean-Louis Andral, and Marilyn McCully.

Recent exhibitions at the Helly Nahmad Gallery in London have included a retrospective of Monet, which featured seventeen paintings by the Impressionist, including two views of London, loaned by the Kunsthaus in Zurich. The Financial Times called the exhibition "the best show in London this winter". This was followed by an exhibition of Matisse's female portraits and included a loan from Tate Modern of one painting, 'La Liseuse distraite' (1919), along with the artist's series of four bronze female backs, entitled Nu de dos I-IV, which were conceived 1909–30.

In 2014, Helly Nahmad presented The Collector at Frieze Masters 2014, curated by Helly Nahmad and designed by Robin Brown and creative producer Anna Pank. Scott Reyburn of The International New York Times stated that "London dealer Helly Nahmad evoked that "true" collecting spirit". Helly Nahmad London commissioned a short film of The Collector, inspired by their Frieze stand.