Brett Gorvy
The Orchestrator
Scaling people and moving parts into one working whole.
Brett Gorvy exemplifies The Orchestrator archetype, coordinating complex webs of collectors, auction houses, dealers, and emerging platforms across global art markets. In this interview, Gorvy describes how he spent 23 years at Christie's building an international contemporary art market by aligning demand from Asia, the Middle East, and the West with carefully managed supply and price discovery mechanisms.
“Obviously Any kind of big jump into a marketplace by a broad group of buyers means that you have amazing activity. But the question then is, is that sustainable? And that sustainability really comes down to does the artists have what it takes? It's not just about creating one body of work.”
“And said, I'm looking for head of department. So it was a change of fortune, but also it ultimately put me in the right place. And that was in 1994. And I stayed with Christie's until 2016. Well, we're going to put these pieces together.”
“One of the most interesting things that actually prompted this was I had to give a presentation, actually, at Christie's about the art market. And I saw a pie chart that demonstrated basically where Christie Sotheby's Phillips were in the market.”
“And if you have an individual who ultimately comes into the market and buys a painting at a record price, as some of these players did in the early 2000s, that has not only the effect of what that purchase might do to one individual sector of the market, but when that knowledge goes out in the market, it literally rises or ships.”
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