Meet the team
Alexandra Coutavas
Alexandra Coutavas is the Gallery Manager at Nicholas Hall, where she is the first point of contact for incoming enquiries and gallery appointments. She is responsible for the logistics, cataloguing, and research of the artworks we take on at the gallery. Most recently Alexandra was a PhD candidate in Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, with an academic interest in 15th-century Netherlandish paintings on cloth. From 2017 to 2019 Alexandra was the Zukerman Departmental Assistant for Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, where she managed the Drawing Study Center. Alexandra is a member of the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA), and an editorial assistant at Gesta, a peer-reviewed academic journal for medieval art and architecture published by the University of Chicago Press. She is a recipient of the Kress Foundation Grant for studying the Arts of Flanders (2023) and the Kilfinan Scholarship at the Courtauld Institute of Art (2016–2017), where she obtained an MA in Art History. She has worked at The Armory Show, as well as in the laboratory of two Nobel Laureates for Physiology or Medicine— the late Dr. Günter Blobel and Sir Paul Nurse. Alexandra is born and raised in New York.
Yuan Fang
is the business partner of Nicholas Hall. Besides directing the gallery’s digital initiatives, she is responsible for the content planning, writing and design of our public-facing projects.
Yuan’s career began in the Old Masters and 19th Century Art department at Christie’s New York before relocating to Hong Kong in 2014 as their first Asia-based specialist. A native of Hangzhou, she grew up between China and the UK. She moved to the U.S. to study chemistry and art history at Duke University, followed by an M.A. in Art History and Archeology from Columbia University. Her training was in the art of the Low Countries and 20th-century art theory but her interest extends well beyond. Yuan is a passionate cook and very much enjoys travelling and meeting people from different cultures, which has brought her to work with Save the Children in Amman, Jordan in her not-so-distant youth.
Nicholas Hall
is a respected art dealer specializing in European Old Masters and Nineteenth Century paintings. Before founding his eponymous gallery in 2016, Nicholas was an International Chairman at Christie’s for twelve years, following their acquisition of his first gallery, Hall & Knight. During his tenure, Nicholas pioneered thematic sales and notably played a central role in the private sale of the Madonna and Child by Duccio to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nicholas’ first job in the art world was at Colnaghi on Old Bond Street, London.
Born in Oxford, U.K., Nicholas has lived in New York since 1983. He read History at the University of Oxford. Having spent much of his formative years travelling to Venice, Nicholas speaks Italian and returns to the lagoons every Spring to teach art history on the John Hall Venice course.