Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Withdraws From LGDR Gallery
Lévy, Gorvy, and Dayan will continue operating as a trio, while Greenberg Rohatyn will return to Salon 94.
A work by Zhang Zipiao hangs at LGDR on 3 East 89 Street in New York City. Photo by Elisabeth Bernstein. Courtesy LGDR.
Two years after it was founded, New York gallery LGDR will drop a letter from its acronym.
'This fall, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn will leave the existing partnership to re-open Salon 94, returning her focus to exhibitions at 3 East 89th Street, and to her art advisory practice,' said LGDR's four founders—Greenberg Rohatyn, Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, and Amalia Dayan— in a statement.
The three remaining dealers will continue to operate under the name Lévy Gorvy Dayan at 19 East 64th Street.
ARTnews described Greenberg Rohatyn's departure as a sign that the art market had returned to normal following the worst of the pandemic, which necessitated some compromises and strategic decisions.
The New York Times, however, described the split as an 'implosion' caused by predictable frictions between four strong art world personalities.
Lévy downplayed the drama, describing the split as a 'non-event'.'We have more similarities than differences, it's just that the differences have always been more public,' she told ARTnews.
Greenberg Rohatyn, for her part, looked back with longing to the independence she had running Salon 94, which she established in 2003 and shuttered in 2021 to join LGDR.
'I missed the ability to react quickly and put exhibitions on the floor without multiple people agreeing on it', she told the New York Times.
Rohatyn will re-open Salon 94 on 12 October with a solo show by Karon Davis titled Beauty Must Suffer, along with exhibitions by Myrtle Williams and Soull & Dynasty.
LGDR will present the Pierre Soulages retrospective at their East 64th Street space from 14 September, and conclude the four-way partnership with an exhibition of large-scale portraits by Jenna Gribbon in November. —[O]
