Our Services
In the quest to match client wants with the very best possible artworks available, we are dedicated and fully committed to searching out, acquiring, and offering for sale those pieces that will stand the test of time and be appreciated over many years both aesthetically and as wise investments.
Our Mission
The best art has the power to move people, bridge gaps in understanding by provoking new perspectives and alternative points of view, spark our collective imagination in building a better, more equitable world, create change by engaging with the complex issues of our time, and turn the individual personal experience into the universal and the eternal. Believing art is for everyone and committed to the ideals of diversity, and artistic and intellectual freedom, championing open minds and fostering an inclusive culture, we offer works across seven centuries of human artistic endeavor that speak to every lifestyle, budget, and taste. In the quest to match client wants with the very best possible artworks available, we are dedicated and fully committed to searching out, acquiring, and offering those pieces that will stand the test of time and be appreciated over many years both aesthetically and as wise investments.
Our Vision
To inspire lifelong learning and engagement with art
To educate gallery goers by supporting open communication about works of art, their historical background, and their aesthetic, symbolic, philosophical, psychological, and spiritual meaning and significance.
To support and nurture artists and audiences, bringing both together by being a hub for open dialog and artistic expression.
To explore and be open to progressive, innovative and challenging ideas, including those using new technologies
To explore and develop partnerships and collaborations locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
History of the Collection
Something for Everyone
The genesis of Galerie Nouveau springs from the realization that the pervasive daily bombardment of images plays an ever-increasing role in our lives, together with the counterintuitive recognition of the power of the visual image, which has been part of our DNA and social fabric since prehistoric times. Along with individuals’ personal quest for meaning in an indifferent post-modern world and the paucity of memorable and/or meaningful (and affordable) images to plug holes in our souls, Galerie Nouveau was created to satisfy the hunger and fill the void. In the public interest to actively engage with the arts communities at large, thus building and reinforcing strong relationships with other arts enterprises, Galerie Nouveau is proud to work with and lend works to educational institutions and requesting museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts & Popular Culture, among others.
Something for Everyone
Our gallery’s offerings encompass paintings across seven centuries, sculptures, graphic works of art, original manuscripts and documents, important costumes, toys, film memorabilia, and cartoon & animation art, all the finest caliber and the product of discerning eyes.
The Paintings
Our painting collections span the last 700 years of Art History and represent that period's major art movements, starting with Byzantine icons circa 1325, continuing through the Renaissance and Mannerist centuries, leading to a concentration in the 19th Century / Victorian period, including Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism & Surrealism, and Modern & Contemporary works. The gallery offers an especially interesting collection of Trompe L’Oeil paintings, which artfully play with viewer perceptions of the apparent presence on the canvas of ordinary objects in commonplace settings, which, as the French term translates, "fools the eye", making these paintings the original virtual reality.
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Old Master Paintings
19th Century & Impressionist Paintings
Modern & Contemporary Art
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La Belle Epoque Posters
Graphic Works
Graphic works include woodcuts, etchings, and among the best lithographic images ever produced – those during La Belle Époque, that period of time starting in the later quarter of the 19th Century and running up to the beginning of World War I when everything in Art was changed, a consequence of the war machines of technology ushering us all into the modern world. The fascinating world of the Circus and the related field of Magic is represented in the gallery’s offerings of engaging posters depicting everything from breathtaking feats of acrobatic artistry to awe-inspiring acts of alchemy to those human oddities whose fame and fortune made them a staple at sideshows.
Contemporary Surrealism
Galerie Nouveau is particularly proud to exclusively offer works by the Everclever Art Collective, a group of anonymous surrealist artists whose works have garnered wide acclaim (see the Testimonials page) and interested collectors of all age groups and familiarities with art history and appreciation. In the group’s prolific output of digital “ecollages”™, the Everclever Art Collective sees the world always in surprising ways, many times hysterically funny, sometimes poignantly, but always succinctly and cleverly commenting on everything from power to pathos, fables to foibles, irreducibilities to ironies, metaphysics to mundanity.
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The Everclever Art Collective
Sculptures & Readymades
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American Folk Art
American Folk Art
Galerie Nouveau’s collection represents the artful imagery created during our country's formative years, a time when much of the population was illiterate, necessitating creative artistic solutions to this challenge, to be found in the iconic symbols incorporated into trade signs, and those often-poignant symbols which also found their way into individual and group portraits of the largely-agrarian populace, painted by unschooled itinerant limners before photography came into common usage.
Cinema
From its earliest origins in France (Lumiere Brothers) and the United States (Thomas Edison), the moving image continues to be a huge influence on culture (both good and bad). Galerie Nouveau’s collection holds among the earliest film posters and advertising, documenting cinema in its nascent stage when its imagery was rich and silence spoke volumes. Of particular note were early German films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu - A Symphony of Terror (1922) and Metropolis (1926), the latter widely recognized as the first major Science Fiction film, produced only five years after the term "robot" first made its way into human consciousness from Czech writer Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), a (wo)man-machine character Fritz Lang made iconic in Metropolis. With film posters of all sizes (three sheets, one sheet, half sheets, inserts and lobby cards), glass coming attraction slides, and movie stills, the gallery covers the rich history of the art of film.
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Classic Film Posters
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Animation Art
Animation Art
A coincidence and parallel development in the history of the moving image is that of cartoon animation, and the gallery's collection includes perhaps the world's most comprehensive collection of animation art from the legendary Fleischer Studios (1921-1942). As Walt Disney's only serious competitor at the time, Max Fleischer, his brothers and a sister ran the studio (under the Paramount Pictures umbrella) and produced some of the world's most beloved and recognizable cartoon character cartoons (Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman), which are also universally-recognized and revered by cartoon art historians as some of the most inventive cartoons ever produced. The gallery's extensive Animation Art holdings include a revealing Fleischer Studios Animation Training Handbook, internal company newsletters, original cartoon scripts, character model sheets, animation drawings, storyboards, cartoon cels, original cartoon background paintings, and an important collection of movie posters and lobby cards advertising its innovative catalog, which heavily incorporated into its imagery the concepts of Surrealism and Jazz, paralleling the corresponding then-contemporaneous movements in fine art and music in the 1920 and 30s.
Art Advisory Services
An art advisor provides expert advice to a private individual and plays a key role in assisting a client to acquire, manage, and expand their client’s private collection by negotiating on the collector’s behalf. Art advisors perform extensive research on behalf of their clients and will typically attend auctions and private viewings in order to acquire new works for their discriminating client/collector.
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Art Consulting Services
An art consultant is someone who deals primarily in an art area of specialty, commissioning working artists to produce work for the private or public sector. Art consultants understand the complex needs of interior designers and architects in sourcing the best art for their professional needs.
Both art consultants and art advisors are distinguished by their discerning eye and talent for curating art into cohesive collections.
With over 45 years of acquisition experience for clients, Galerie Nouveau’s Approach to Art Consultancy includes understanding the client's vision, performing contextual art research, identifying appropriate locations for art placement, developing an artwork strategy, commissioning artists, project management, and art installation, presentation and framing.
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