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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | Art | Australia, International & Aboriginal
• Sale Date:
  06 Sep 2021 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  6079
• Lot Description:
  Enrico Donati
  Italy/USA, (1909-2008)
  Blue Coptic Wall 1980
  Mixed media on canvas
  Overall: 91 x 91 cm
  Signed lower left; Signed, titled & dated verso
  together with: Burgard, Timothy A. The Surreal World of Enrico Donati Exhibition Catalogue Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with Weinstein Gallery, 2007
• Provenance:
  Weinstein Gallery, California USA , April 2007, original invoice; Private Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  Enrio Donati, was the last surrealist artist who had connections with Andre Breton, the pioneering Surrealist artist & writer & his friends & colleagues included Marcel Duchamp & Yves Tanguy, Salvator Dali, max Ernst, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Andre Masson, Roberto Massa & William Hayter, as an emigre artist in New York, after moving his family there in 1940. Active for over 6 decades, Donati's works record the evolution of American art from Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism to Pop Art, and was a member of the Surrealist group surrounding AndrÈ Breton in New York City during WWII. Donati was one of the organizers of the Exposition Internationale du SurrÈalisme held in Paris in the summer of 1947, to which he contributed a painting and two sculptures. In the late 1940s he responded to the crisis in Surrealism by going through a Constructivist phase, from which he developed a calligraphic style and drew onto melted tar, or diluted paint with turpentine. He also became associated with Spatialism, founded by Lucio Fontana. Thus began his long fascination with surface and texture, including mixing paint with dust, that culminated in the 1950s in his Moonscapes, a series that has similarities with the work of Dubuffet. The fossil became a major theme for Donati through the 1960s, and he gave new importance to color in his Fossil works, for example in Red Yellow Fossil (1964; Miami, Hills Col., see Selz, p. 19). In 1961, he was given a major retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and frequently exhibited at group shows in the USA and elsewhere. He held a number of important teaching and advisory posts, including Visiting Lecturer at Yale University (1962-1972). He later became the head of the perfume company, Houbigant. Condition: Good, some small losses, orginal framing
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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