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Enrico Donati

Enrico Donati (1909 - 2008) was active/lived in New York / Italy.  Enrico Donati is known for Abstract expressionist and surreal painting.

Enrico Donati, a surrealist and abstract expressionist painter, was born in Milan, Italy in 1909 and died in Manhattan on April 25, 2008.  He was known for his association with the surrealist movement of the 1940's, but his artwork continued to transform itself through the many trends that have occurred during his long career. 

In Italy he attended the Universita degli Studi in Pavia where he studied economics.  In 1934, he moved to the United States settling in New York where he studied at the New School for Social Research and the Art Students' League.

Considered the surviving dean of the Surrealist Movement and a member of the New York School, Donati painted with Ernst, Matta and Tanguy in the thirties and forties, and in particular with Andre Breton, regarded by many to be the grand master of Surrealism.

He helped organize the Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme in Paris in 1947 where he exhibited three of his pieces. The Surrealists were   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12957 characters.]  Artist bio

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