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.