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Meet Randall J. Slavin of Winn Slavin Fine Art

Hi Randall, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I started Winn Slavin Fine Art after being on the wholesale/artist agency side of the business for more than two decades. During that time, I represented artists, built their reputations, and sold their artwork to retail galleries. The company, Masterpiece Publishing Inc., was quite successful. It sold artwork to more than a hundred galleries over those two decades. But, as the saying goes, change is the only constant.

The Great Recession, social media, and inexpensive reproduction techniques so significantly altered the art business that I had to reinvent the business in response. In 2017, Winn Slavin Fine Art opened its first retail gallery in Beverly Hills. 2018 and 2019 brought locations in Shanghai, China and near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In early 2021, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, our current location on Rodeo Drive opened.