Lecture by David and Constance Yates, Private Art Dealers
This lecture will be followed by a reception at 8 p.m. in the Skylight Gallery.
David and Constance Yates are private dealers specializing in European sculpture, medals, drawings and oil sketches, late 18th century to the early 20th century. The Yates founded their business—located in the East 60s on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—in 1980. The gallery is open by appointment, which allows the Yates to research, acquire inventory and to visit clients, both private and institutional. The Yates also maintain a second location in Paris, France.
The Yates are deeply committed to educating young collectors who are beginning to discover the pleasures derived from the acquisition of works of art.
They are members of CINOA (Conféderation Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art), as well as PADA (The Private Art Dealers Association,USA), of which Constance Yates was a Vice President from 1994-1998. David & Constance Yates regularly exhibit in international art fairs, including The International Fine Art Fair, The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show and TEFAF, Maastricht.
David and Constance Yates have helped build private collections of sculpture, oil sketches and drawings, which have been included in museum exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the musée d’Orsay, Paris and the musée communal d’Ixelles, Brussels. Their museum clients include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Sterling and Francine Clarke Art Institute, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, the Princeton University Art Museum, the British Museum, and the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
This event is part of the lecture series accompanying the exhibition “The Sorrow of Too Many Joys: Satire in 19th Century France,” on view September 5 – December 6, 2015.
General admission is $5; free for OUMA members or with a Petrel Pass.
