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Finding aid for the Enrico Donati letters received and manuscripts, 1943-1963.
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Title: Enrico Donati letters received and manuscripts
Date (inclusive): 1943-1963
Number: 940120
Creator/Collector:
Donati, Enrico, 1909-2008
Physical Description:
250.0 items
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Italian-born painter and sculptor. Circa 200 letters received from galleries, museums, and artists, four manuscripts, and
circa 20 printed items primarily relate to the Surrealist retrospective "Le Surrealisme en 1947" curated by Andrei Breton
and Marcel Duchamp and held at the Galerie Maeght in Paris, July-August 1947.
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Language: Collection material is in French, English and Italian.
The Italian-born painter and sculptor, Enrico Donati, became an American citizen in 1945. During the 1930s and 1940s he was
associated with Surrealists in Paris and New York, contributing to the Surrealist retrospective in Paris in 1947.
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Enrico Donati letters received and manuscripts, 1943-1963, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 940120.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa940120
Acquired in 1994.
Processed by Hillary Brown, with later additions processed and added to the finding aid by Beth Guynn.
Scope and Content of Collection
A major focus of the letters, manuscripts and ephemera that comprise this collection is the Surrealist retrospective "Le Surrealisme
en 1947" curated by Andrei Breton and Marcel Duchamp and held at the Galerie Maeght in Paris, July-August 1947. The collection
comprises circa 210 published and unpublished letters, postcards, and notes received by Enrico Donati, many relating to the
organization and impact of the Surrealist exhibition. Other letters from galleries, museums, and Donati's fellow artists reflect
his professional life and that of his friends.
Also included are four manuscripts by Donati, clippings relating to his work or the 1947 surrealist exhibition, and articles
about Donati's work by American and European critics such as Dore Ashton, Hubert Crehan, Alain Jouffroy, and Jaroslav Serpan.
Arranged in 2 series:
Series I. Letters received, 1943-1963;
Series II. Manuscripts and ephemera, 1943-1963
Donati, Enrico, 1909-2008
Art--Exhibitions--20th century--France--Paris
Surrealism
Solution surréaliste Surreialisme en 1947
Ephemera
Ashton, Dore
Baj, Enrico, 1924-2003
Ballet International
Biennale di Venezia
Brauner, Victor, 1903-1966
Breton, André, 1896-1966
Breton, Elise
Brooks, James, 1906-1992
Cagli, Corrado, 1910-1976
Calas, Nicolas
Cardazzo, Carlo, 1908-1963
Clarac-Sérou, Max
Craven, John, 1912-1981
Crehan, Hubert
Delanglade, Freideiric
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Faucheaux, Pierre
Fontana, Lucio, 1899-1968
Galerie Maeght (Paris, France).
Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna (Italy)
Geist, Sidney
Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
Gómez-Correa, Enrique, 1915-
Hare, David, 1917-1992
Heisler, Jindřich, 1914-1953
Hérold , Jacques, 1910-1987
Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993
Jouffroy, Alain, 1928-
Kober, Jacques
Lam, Wifredo
Lamba, Jacqueline, 1910-
Lebrun, Rico, 1900-1964
Luca, Géirasim
Martins, Maria, 1900-1973
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián, 1912-2002
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).
Nadeau, Marthe
Nadeau, Maurice
Péret, Benjamin, 1899-1959
Reggiani, Mauro, 1897-1980
Renne, René
Sage, Kay
Seligmann, Kurt, 1900-1962
Selz, Peter Howard, 1919-
Serbanne, Claude
Serpan, 1922-1976
Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955
Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-
Tapié, Michel
Tyler, Parker
Wolff, Theodore F.