Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.)
type Dealer/Gallery
dates 1875-
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesLondon, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan;
sex n/a
history Nathan Wildenstein founded Wildenstein & Cie in 1875, and specialized in French paintings, drawings and sculpture of the eighteenth century.

In 1903, Nathan, Earnest and René Gimpel opened E. Gimpel & Wildenstein in New York City (1903-1933). The gallery became Wildenstein & Company in 1933.

Clients of Wildenstein & Company have included Calouste Gulbenkian, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry O. and Louisine Havemeyer, Jules Bache, Benjamin Altman, Sir A. Chester Beatty, Sir Samuel Courtauld, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Robert Lehman, Duncan Phillips, John G. Johnson, Edward G. Robinson, Helen Clay Frick, Sterling and Francine Clark, John T. Dorrance, Henry P. McIlhenny, Henry Ford II, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand, Samuel H. and Rush H. Kress, Josephine Bay Paul, John Hay Whitney, John D. and Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, De Witt and Lila Acheson Wallace, Norton Simon, John Paul Getty, Charles and Jayne Wrightsman, Stavros Niarchos, Gianni Agnelli and Ambassador and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg.

In January of 2014, the Wildenstein family sold it's East 64th Street headquarters to the government of Qatar.


decades1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
websitehttp://www.wildenstein.com/main.html
updated 03/22/2024 12:09:31
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Wildenstein & Co.
689 Fifth Avenue
Pace Wildenstein Gallery Records see details...
Wildenstein & Co.
689 Fifth Avenue
Wildenstein & Co. Records see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Gimpel & Wildenstein exhibition catalogs, [undated] and 1915-1919. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Wildenstein and Company exhibition catalogs, 1920-1945. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Wildenstein and Company exhibition catalog, 1921.
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The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Subject file : WILDENSTEIN & CO. (NEW YORK, N.Y.): miscellaneous uncataloged material. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Miscellaneous art exhibition catalog collection, 1813-1953, bulk 1915-1925 see details...

see alsoWildenstein, Nathan, 1851-1934
Wildenstein, Georges
Gimpel, René
Wildenstein, Daniel, 1917-2001
Pace Wildenstein Gallery