| Acquavella is a family-owned gallery founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1925. 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 his two sons Alexander and Nicholas, and the entire scope of the 20th and 21st centuries are 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 Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre Bonnard, Yves Tanguy, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg, Lyonel Feininger, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Lucian Freud and James Rosenquist. Acquavella is the exclusive international agent for the renowned British painter Lucian Freud and the celebrated American painter James Rosenquist.
Esperanza Sobrino, Tsutomu Takashima, Michael Findlay, Eleanor Acquavella, Nicholas Acquavella and Alexander Acquavella are 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 and Spanish as well as English.
Acquavella is located at 18 East 79th Street in New York City, occupying a five-story French neo-classical townhouse.
Acquavella Galleries is part of the Art Dealer Association of America (www.artdealers.org). The gallery also participates in the following prestigious international art fairs, bringing works by modern and contemporary masters to the fairs each year.
TEFAF: Maastricht Art Fair (March)
Maastricht, The Netherlands
www.tefaf.com
Maastricht, the oldest town in The Netherlands, attracts around 195 of the most illustrious international dealers to participate in the world's greatest art and antiques fair, TEFAF Maastricht. For over 30 years, the myriad of museum quality items which are for sale at have drawn collectors from around the globe.
Art Basel: The International Art Fair (June)
Basel, Switzerland
www.art.ch
Every year, Acquavella exhibits at Art Basel, the world's premier modern and contemporary art fair. The New York Times has called Art Basel the “Olympics of the Art World." According to the Paris daily Le Monde, Art Basel is “la meilleure foire du monde," and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describes the international art show as “Die beste Kunst ist gerade gut genug."
Top galleries from Europe, America, Asia and Australia come together in Basel to present 20th and 21st century art works by over 2000 artists. The full spectrum of modern and contemporary art is represented, from the great masters of modern art to the latest generation of artists.
Art Basel Miami (December)
Miami Beach Convention Center
www.artbaselmiamibeach.com
The international art show in Miami Beach (Florida) is the American sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland, the most important annual art show worldwide for the past 37 years. In Miami Beach’s Convention Center, 200 world leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia exhibit 20th and 21st century by over 1500 artists.
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