Acquavella Galleries
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Acquavella Galleries is an art gallery
located at 18 East 79th Street
between Madison
and Fifth Avenues
in the Upper East Side
neighborhood of Manhattan
, New York City
. It occupies a five-story French neo-classical
townhouse. It was founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1921 and is owned and operated by the Acquavella family. The gallery originally specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance
. In 1960 William Acquavella joined his father and the focus of the gallery expanded to major works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including masters of Impressionism
, Post-Impressionism
, Surrealism
and Cubism
. Today, a range of 20th century art is now represented, including Pop Art
and Abstract Expressionism
.
Numerous exhibitions have been presented at the gallery, including the works of Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir
, Pissarro, Bonnard, Tanguy
, Léger
, Picasso, Modigliani
, Matisse, Rauschenberg, Sisley
, Feininger
, Giacometti, and Miró
. The gallery is the international agent for the British painter[ Lucian Freud
, James Rosenquist
, and Damian Loeb
, and is also the American agent for Beijing-based painter Zeng Fanzhi
.
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
located at 18 East 79th Street
79th Street (Manhattan)
79th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. East 79th Street stretches from East End Avenue to Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, where it enters Central Park through Miners' Gate...
between Madison
Madison Avenue (Manhattan)
Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square to the Madison Avenue Bridge at 138th Street. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side , Spanish Harlem, and...
and Fifth Avenues
Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The section of Fifth Avenue that crosses Midtown Manhattan, especially that between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious shops and is consistently ranked among...
in the Upper East Side
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The Upper East Side lies within an area bounded by 59th Street to 96th Street, and the East River to Fifth Avenue-Central Park...
neighborhood of Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. It occupies a five-story French neo-classical
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...
townhouse. It was founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1921 and is owned and operated by the Acquavella family. The gallery originally specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...
. In 1960 William Acquavella joined his father and the focus of the gallery expanded to major works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including masters of Impressionism
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
, Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...
, Surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and Cubism
Cubism
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture...
. Today, a range of 20th century art is now represented, including Pop Art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
and Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
.
Numerous exhibitions have been presented at the gallery, including the works of Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir
Renoir
-People with the surname Renoir :* Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter* Pierre Renoir , French actor and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir* Jean Renoir , French film director and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
, Pissarro, Bonnard, Tanguy
Tanguy
Tanguy is the French spelling of Breton given name Tangi, from tan, fire, and ki, dog. It is both a given name and a patronym.-People:It was the name of Saint Tangi and many other Bretons.*Tangi Malmanche, Breton writer-Books and films:...
, Léger
Léger
Léger is a surname, and may refer to:* Alexis Leger – French poet and diplomat* Fernand Léger – French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker* Jules Léger – Governor General of Canada * Louis Léger – French writer and pioneer in Slavic studies...
, Picasso, Modigliani
Modigliani
Modigliani may refer to:* Amedeo Modigliani , painter and sculptor** Modigliani, a 2004 biographical film about the painter and sculptor* Elio Modigliani , anthropologist, zoologist, and plant collector...
, Matisse, Rauschenberg, Sisley
Sisley
Sisley may refer to:*Alfred Sisley, a French impressionist painter of English origin*Sisley, a Benetton Group brand, established in 1974*Sisley Paris, , a French cosmetics company founded in Paris in 1976 by Roland de Saint Vincent and Jean Francois Laporte, before being taken over by the famous...
, Feininger
Feininger
Feininger may refer to* Lyonel Feininger, a Jewish German-American painter and caricaturist, Andreas' father* Theodore Lux Feininger, son of Lyonel* Andreas Feininger, a Jewish Geman-American photographer, another son of Lyonel...
, Giacometti, and Miró
Miro
Miro may refer to:* Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization, a reformist Iranian political organization* Prumnopitys ferruginea, an evergreen coniferous tree endemic to New Zealand.* Miro Technologies, an MRO supplier from California...
. The gallery is the international agent for the British painter[ Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
, James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...
, and Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s.Discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, founder of Deitch Projects and current director of LAMoCA, Loeb had his first solo in 1999...
, and is also the American agent for Beijing-based painter Zeng Fanzhi
Zeng Fanzhi
Zeng Fanzhi is an artist based in Beijing.Zeng Fanzhi has exhibited internationally in shows including the First Triennial of Chinese Arts at Guangzhou Art Museum, China, China! at the Bonn Kunstmuseum in Germany and Paris – Pekin at Pierre Cardin in Paris. He is noted for his Mask series of...
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