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ART WORLD SPOTLIGHT: EVAN TAWIL
Mega Dealer-Advisor is the Art World Insider’s Secret Weapon by W.A. Muller
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hen Metropolitan Magazine listed Evan Tawil among the Top Art Advisors in 2020 alongside the likes of hedge fund art advisor Sandy Heller, Tawil was humbly surprised. Having been an avid collector since the age of twenty-one and listed in ARTnews Magazine at the age of 26 as one of the top collectors under 30, Tawil’s roots in the art world run deep. Early memories such as long conversations with Annina Nosei who discovered Jean Michel-Basquiat as they toured her basement stacks of Basquiat inventory. Then, the idea of a Basquiat canvas fetching $150,000 was a fantasy. Now they can sell for $10 million to $100 million. Tawil is a third-generation American though he shares the same Syrian heritage as other great art collectors/dealer families like the Nahmads and the Mugrabis. Tawil was approached by MOMA in his twenties to sell them a canvas he owned by a prominent African artist. He struck a deal with then curator Robert Storr for a promised gift of the painting. He shared the work with MOMA for the next 20 years.
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Having grown up in Manhattan in a multi-lingual school and household, Tawil joined his father’s apparel firm at the age of twenty-three. Evan Tawil quickly built an impressive portfolio of relationships with major brands. Manufacturing children’s apparel under a dozen different licenses (Baby Dior, Juicy Couture, Kate Spade, VINCE, UGG, 7 for All Mankind, Marimekko & Disney among others). Evan Tawil also filled his showrooms with art of all mediums and periods and developed a community-wide reputation as an aficionado of high art. When the firm was sold in 2016, Tawil decided to pursue his passion for art dealing and advising. Evan still maintains a strong foothold in consumer products, and brands
