Doyle New York: Modern & Contemporary and European & American Paintings: Lot 57
Enrico Donati
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Italian/American, b.1909
CHAMBRE A PRESSION OSMOTIQUE II
Signed and dated Donati 48 (lr), and dated 1948 (lr); also signed and dated on the stretcher
Oil on canvas, with pen and ink
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Provenance:
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Exhibited:
Davenport, Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, 1978
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Enrico Donati: Surrealist Paintings and Objects from the Forties, Jan. 20-Feb. 28, 1987, no. 12A
Donati is considered to be a member of Surrealism's last generation. He met Andre Breton in New York, who championed his work and even created titles for many of the paintings. According to Carter Ratcliff, in Art in America, May 1989, Donati's designs of 1947-48 look 'like an engineer's designs for equipment to be used in an imaginary laboratory.'
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