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Portraiture: From Cassatt to Warhol

Jan 21, 2025 - Mar 21, 2025

New York, NY – Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Portraiture: From Cassatt to Warhol, a group exhibition exploring portraiture, with paintings and sculptures spanning over a century and different styles of representation, from Impressionism to today. Artists include Francis Bacon, Billy Al Bengston, Pierre Bonnard, Dominic Chambers, Jean Dubuffet, Nicole Eisenman, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, Damian Loeb, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Chris Ofili, Tom Sachs, Wayne Thiebaud, Édouard Vuillard, Andy Warhol, and Hannah Wilke. The exhibition opened at the gallery’s Palm Beach location November 20th, 2024, and will open in New York January 21st, 2025.

Portraiture: From Cassatt to Warhol brings together works that delve into the techniques and methods that artists have utilized to represent their subjects in portraiture. Showing works by artists across the spectrum of the Impressionist, modern, and contemporary periods, the exhibition reflects the disparate ways of seeing and portraying, with a particular focus on the relationship between painter and model. Through these varying perspectives, the simulacrum undergoes shifts and transformations that illustrate the breadth of portraiture while delving into the genre’s inherent intimacy.



New York, NY – Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Portraiture: From Cassatt to Warhol, a group exhibition exploring portraiture, with paintings and sculptures spanning over a century and different styles of representation, from Impressionism to today. Artists include Francis Bacon, Billy Al Bengston, Pierre Bonnard, Dominic Chambers, Jean Dubuffet, Nicole Eisenman, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, Damian Loeb, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Chris Ofili, Tom Sachs, Wayne Thiebaud, Édouard Vuillard, Andy Warhol, and Hannah Wilke. The exhibition opened at the gallery’s Palm Beach location November 20th, 2024, and will open in New York January 21st, 2025.

Portraiture: From Cassatt to Warhol brings together works that delve into the techniques and methods that artists have utilized to represent their subjects in portraiture. Showing works by artists across the spectrum of the Impressionist, modern, and contemporary periods, the exhibition reflects the disparate ways of seeing and portraying, with a particular focus on the relationship between painter and model. Through these varying perspectives, the simulacrum undergoes shifts and transformations that illustrate the breadth of portraiture while delving into the genre’s inherent intimacy.



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