Acquavella Galleries
Coordinates: 40°46′35″N 73°57′45″W / 40.776372°N 73.962617°W
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.
Acquavella Galleries was founded at 598 Madison Avenue in 1921 by Nicholas Acquavella, a native of Naples who had come to the United States in 1919 and begun a private trade in Italian paintings. The gallery has since been operated by the Acquavella family. It originally specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance. Under Acquavella's leadership, the Acquavella Galleries introduced many leading American museums and collectors to Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting, and later to 19th- and 20th-century European masters.
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. William Acquavella's first real coup was buying 22 paintings in 1965 from the estate of the French painter Pierre Bonnard. Before mounting a show of the works, he sold 17 of them by mail. His international clientele included top museums and collectors like Henry Ford II, Paul Mellon, and Walter H. Annenberg. Acquavella later bought the collection of Edward G. Robinson in conjunction with Armand Hammer. Since 1967, the gallery has occupied an elegant five-story French neo-classical townhouse at 18 East 79th, once the New York outpost of London art firm founded by Joseph Duveen. Today, a range of 20th-century art is represented, including Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism.
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