Acquavella is a family-owned gallery founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1921. The gallery first specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance, but in 1960, when William Acquavella joined his father, the focus of the gallery expanded to major works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including masters of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. Recently, William Acquavella has been joined by daughter Eleanor and sons Nicholas and Alexander, and the entire scope of the 20th century is now represented, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

For over eighty years, Acquavella has sold major paintings and sculpture to private collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery has presented museum-quality exhibitions of Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Sisley, Renoir, Pissarro, Modigliani, Bonnard, Tanguy, Léger, Picasso, Matisse, Rauschenberg, Feininger, Giacometti, Miró, Braque, and Freud.

Acquavella is the exclusive international agent for James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, Damian Loeb and Enoc Perez.

Michael Findlay, Esperanza Sobrino, Tsutomu Takashima, Ken Yeh, and Fiona Biberstein are the directors of Acquavella. Their combined experience represents a wide range of expertise in acquisition, appraisal and education. Business can be conducted in French, Italian, Japanese, German, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hebrew, Spanish, and English.

Acquavella is located at 18 East 79th Street in New York City, occupying a five-story French neo-classical townhouse.

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Selected Press

GalleristNY  And the Winners Are: AICA Names the Best Shows of 2012  March 2, 2013   PDF (123 K)
Art Investment Magazine  March 2013   PDF (1.6 MB)
Art Asia Pacific  Chairman of Christie's Asia to Join Acquavella Galleries  February 18, 2013   PDF (507 K)
The New Yorker  Cover Story: Wayne Thiebaud  December 3, 2012   PDF (591 K)
The Wall Street Journal  In Search of Refreshments  November 10-11, 2012   PDF (0.9 MB)
ARTnews  James Rosenquist Review
The Wall Street Journal  Commerce and Collecting: The Value of Art  May 31, 2012   PDF (0.8 MB)
Art in America  Michael Findlay on the Value of Looking  April 30, 2012   PDF (43 K)
The New York Observer  Michael Findlay's "Value of Art" Tells Tales, Just Wants People to Like Art  May 2, 2012   PDF (59 K)
ARTnews  Review of The Value of Art by Michael Findlay  May 2012   PDF (515 K)
Financial Times  Lucian Freud Drawings, Blain Southern, London  February 20, 2012   PDF (46 K)
TimeOut London  Review of Lucian Freud Portraits and Drawings  February 9, 2012   PDF (58 K)
Bloomberg  Freud's Obese Nudes, Bohemian Cohorts Star in London Show  February 6, 2012   PDF (20 K)
The Telegraph  Lucian Freud: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Review: A show that proves Freud's greatness  February 6, 2012   PDF (96 K)
The Guardian  Lucian Freud Portraits - Review  February 5, 2012   PDF (51 K)
The Financial Times  Lunch with the FT  October 1 / October 2, 2011   PDF (259 K)
Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung  Keine Angst vorm Neuen  May 16, 2010   PDF (675 K)
NY Times Magazine  Just Looking  May 7, 2010   PDF (80 K)
New York Times  Appetite for New and Next New  April 16, 2010   PDF (43 K)
New York Times  Showing a Couple's Eye for Art (and Money)  April 10, 2010   PDF (44 K)

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