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ENRICO DONATI Composizione #2.
Pen and ink and gouache on smooth wove paper, circa 1947-48. 352x278 mm; 13 7/8x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.
Donati (1909-2008) was an Italian-American surrealist painter and sculptor. After his initial studies in Pavia, Italy, he moved to the United States in the 1930s and trained at the New School for Social Research and the Art Students League, both in New York. He met André Breton, Marcel Ducahmp and other European Surrealists in New York at the time, and became a devotee. During the crisis in Surrealism in the late 1940s, he responded by entering a Constructivist phase, as evidenced by the current work, and later in his career he became associated with Spacialism and was influenced by Lucio Fontana.
