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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\tBorn in Israel, David (1921\u20132011) lived in Old Wesbury, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida. The president of Hi-Shear Industries, an aerospace contractor, he started out collecting stamps as a child, and graduated to art and design, ranging from Tiffany lamps to paintings by leading artists of his time, often focusing on renditions of the human figure. Shoshanna, born in Syracuse, New York, and herself a sculptor, and died at 104 years of age this past January.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe couple began collecting upon meeting pioneering New York dealer Edith Halpert, and acquired many works from her Downtown Gallery by artists like Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, and William Zorach. Over the years, they expanded their purview to collect works by major 20th-century figures Giacometti, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso. The Wingates would also collect from European galleries; they bought Giacometti\u2019s La Clairi\u00e8re<\/em> at Galerie Maeght in Paris and his L\u00e9ger at Galerie Louise Leiris, according to their son, Ealan Wingate.<\/p>\n \n\tEalan Wingate became the first director of legendary dealer Ileana Sonnabend\u2019s SoHo gallery in 1971, when he was only 23 years old. After working with his father at Hi-Shear Industries, Wingate fils<\/em> opened his own gallery, Koury Wingate, and upon its closure in 1990, he began a 35-year tenure as a director of Gagosian Gallery. He has led teams to create numerous books devoted to artists with whom he has worked, including Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown, Howard Hodgkin, Anselm Kiefer, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn one way, it\u2019s fitting that the collection should come to the auction block, as Ealan Wingate explains. \u201cOf course Dad bought from many galleries, but what he really loved was buying at auction,\u201d he told ARTnews<\/em> in an email. \u201cHe liked the immediacy, the competition, the excitement, and he also appreciated the accuracy of the pricing. Most of his auction buys were at Sotheby\u2019s and the earlier Parke Bernet. He bought his Stepanova and his Rodchenko at a singular Sotheby\u2019s auction in Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cEverything we bought, we really bought to enjoy,\u201d David Wingate once said, \u201cnot to put in a vault as an investment.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDad\u2019s great pleasure was bringing his new acquisitions home\u2014choosing a place for it, having it hung, having it join the others, visiting it,\u201d said Ealan Wingate. \u201cHis collection was a sort of community of beautiful things. As he was buying more works that were contemporary, he often kept the paintings he loved that he had purchased decades before on the walls with the new: Abraham Rattner keeping company with Ed Ruscha.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tTheir Old Westbury home provided space to live with and display their collection, with Giacometti and Picasso sculptures set against large windows that overlooked a forest glade, and Tiffany lamps accompanying paintings by Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tEalan helped to guide his parents to collect more Pop art and abstract work.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI was smitten with Andy Warhol, but Dad wasn\u2019t having any of it,\u201d he says. \u201cHe thought it wasn\u2019t art, that it was silly, not his cup of tea. But he kept looking at it. One day in about 1965, he came to me with a twinkle to show me a waste paper basket in the form of a Campbell\u2019s soup can he had just bought for his office. It\u00a0was his way of telling me he was ready for Pop Art.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/wingate-collection-sothebys-giacometti-1234782085\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alberto-Giacometti-La-Clairiere-Composition-avec-neuf-figures-Conceived-in-1950-and-cast-in-1960_view-2.jpg?w=1024″] The collection of modern and contemporary art built over some seven decades by David and Shoshanna Wingate will come to auction at Sotheby\u2019s New York and London over evening and day sales on May 19 and 20. The group of over 50 works, including canonical artists like Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Roy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1897283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/David-and-Shoshanna-Wingate-engagement-1943.jpg?w=400\")
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