Levis Fine Art specializes in the acquisition, scholarship, exhibition and sale of Pre and Post-War modernist paintings and sculpture. Our new location at 514 West 24th St., in the Chelsea Arts district of New York is a perfect venue to view fine works from this period.

As a third generation art collector, co- founder of the Fortress Corporation (the nation’s largest fine art storage and management services firm serving over 100 Museums and 6000 collectors and galleries) and owner of Levis Fine Art, Inc., Jim Levis has had the pleasure of working with collectors, corporations, artists’ estates and museums in the US and abroad for over 40 years.

Levis Fine Art represents the estates, legacies and heirs of Jose de Creeft, Beauford Delaney, Maurice Golubov, Budd Hopkins, Elaine de Kooning, Walter Plate and Albert Wein. We pride ourselves in offering the finest examples by these and other pre and post-war modernists, including George Grosz, Grace Hartigan, Ibram Lassaw, Milton Resnick, Jose de Rivera, Leon Polk Smith and Hedda Sterne who were highly respected by their peers, critics and museums, but are for the most part still relatively unknown to most collectors today.

The reasons for their undeserved obscurity are diverse, and as such allow us to present significant opportunities for a wide range of collectors and museums. Having a fine reputation for serving both our private clients and artist’s estates, we are able to secure the masterpieces by these artists that are almost never available at auction. We are proud to exhibit them alongside their highly visible peers including Alice Neel, Willem de Kooning, Milton Avery, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Archipenko, Thomas Hart Benton, Kenneth Noland and Sam Francis.

Levis Fine Art has mounted or been instrumental in organizing several exhibitions over the past 10 years, including the 2008 retrospective on Albert Wein, N.A. at the Boston Athenaeum, and more recently, “The Fourth Dimension-the genius of Maurice Golubov”, “de Kooning -works by Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning”, and “Form and Figure- Avery through Zuniga”. Jim Levis has authored numerous articles on mid-century modern art.

Levis Fine Art has participated in numerous national fine art fairs including Art20 New York, USArtists in Philadelphia, The Boston Fine Art Fair and The Los Angeles Fine Art Fair. Mr. Levis has been a speaker before museum groups and the World Presidents Organization, and is a member of the Chief Executives Organization.

Whether you’re interested in acquiring one painting or building a collection, we strive to make sure that each acquisition is not only visually and emotionally rewarding for you, but also can be viewed as an intelligent “wealth-preservation” asset.

Please view our website to get a glimpse of some of the artist’s works we currently have available. All works shown are subject to prior sale. We look forward to working with you in the near future so please call 646-620-5000 or email us if you would like to schedule a private viewing in advance of your visit.

Thank you,
Jim Levis