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Donati, the young Italian anointed Surrealism's Wunderkind by Andre Breton in 1942, has gone on to a rich career as an artist of the New York School, his vision transformed many times over through 55 years of highly provocative, richly textured, ravishingly colourful work.
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Throughout his long career, Donati, who was born in Italy in 1909 and now lives in New York City, has changed painting styles many times while always remaining true to his surrealist sensibilities. Art critic Wolff (Morris Graves: Flower Paintings) lucidly analyzes the phrases of Donati's art, from the subjective imagery of the 1940s that led the surrealist poet Andre Breton to laud him as the savior of surrealism to the provocative works of the 1990s that combine surrealist elements with geometric configurations and calligraphic doodles. There is an aura of magic about Donati's paintings, for they are imbued with the artist's mystical relationship to ancient myths and his own intuitions concerning the nature of life. Wolff suggests this quality reached its apogee in the iconic Fossil series of the 1960s, which had its inception in the artist's discovery of a fossil he believed "had always been my true myth and metaphor, my guide from the very beginning of my career." He goes on to show that this kind of mysterious personal imagery characterizes all the artist's works. The handsome reproductions glow with the artist's rich colors.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Enrico Donati: Surrealism and Beyond Wolff, Theodore F. 1996 hardcover with dustjacket 87 color plates plus 28 b/w I love the paintings of Enrico Donati like I love a night in May. Andre Breton Born in 1909 in Milan, Italy, Enrico Donati studied economics before turning his attention to avant-garde music and ultimately to painting, studying in Paris in the early 1930's at the Ecole de la rue de Berri. There he discovered the Surrealists and came in contact with the sacred artifacts of the Native Americans at the Musee de l'Homme. Determined to learn more about them and their ways, he traveled to the American Southwest and Canadian Northwest, living and trading with the people and learning their myths, before returning to Paris. He moved his young family to New York in 1939 to escape the growing threat of war. Donati held his first exhibition at the New School of Social Research, where André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement, saw the work and immediately embraced it. Recognized as a new voice for Surrealism, the young artist found himself welcomed into the mélange of expatriate and American artists at the center of the New York art scene. Donati exhibited at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in 1947 at the Galerie Maeght in Paris and collaborated with his friend Marcel Duchamp on the catalogue for the exhibition, painting 99 foam breasts which were attached to the catalogue with the statement "Please touch" emblazoned on the back cover. Due to an accident in his studio involving a vacuum cleaner exploding, Donati began experimenting with fiber and created a series of paintings called the "Moonscapes," as named by Duchamp. These works evolved into the "Fossil" series. Both of these series were shown at the famous Betty Parsons Gallery throughout the 1950s and 1960s to critical acclaim at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement. bx24-c. Seller Inventory # ABE-1667739210130
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