Background
Ezra was born in Beirut, Lebanon in a Lebanese Jewish family.
Ezra was born in Beirut, Lebanon in a Lebanese Jewish family.
He has four children, including the British art dealer Helly Nahmad, and resides in Monaco. The roots of the Nahmad family are in Aleppo, Syria, where Ezra"s father, Sephardic Jewish banker Hillel Nahmad lived until just after the second world war. As teenagers, the three began to deal in art - and skipped school to trade on the Italian stock market.
Ezra"s first career"s milestone is believed to have taken place at a Juan Gris exhibition in Rome, organized by cubist dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Kahnweiler befriended them, selling them works by Picasso, Braque, and Gris. With the emergence of the Red Brigades terror group in the 1970s, Milan was perceived as too dangerous, and the family moved again.
They own a vast inventory of between 4,000 and 4,500 works, stored in a duty-free warehouse next to the airport in Geneva, Switzerland. The brothers buy and sell most of their works at auction.
