Blain Di Donna

Di Donna Galleries

Located on New York City’s Upper East Side, Di Donna specializes in museum quality exhibitions and private sales of Surrealist, Modern and Contemporary Art. Founded by Emmanuel Di Donna, formerly Vice Chairman of Sotheby’s Worldwide, Senior Specialist and Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Sales, the gallery advises clients on building collections, selling works discreetly and buying and selling through auction. Di Donna has placed important works of art in both private and museum collections worldwide.

Since its inaugural exhibition René Magritte: Dangerous Liaisons, Di Donna continues its commitment to Surrealism in all of its forms. Subsequent exhibits include André Masson, The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945, and Paul Delvaux, the first monographic show of the artist’s work in the United States since 1969. Di Donna provides to New York audiences a unique opportunity to see Surrealist works in an intimate gallery setting. In 2013 Di Donna mounted their first historical thematic exhibition Dada & Surrealist Objects in collaboration with renowned Surrealism specialist Timothy Baum.

Broadening the scope of the exhibition program, the gallery opened with the acclaimed exhibition, Warhol: Jackie in the spring of 2014. Organized by Warhol expert Bibi Khan, the exhibition brought together over fifty portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy grouped in approximately twenty individual works which were inspired by media coverage of her husband’s assassination. The gallery’s exhibitions have been supported by artworks generously loaned from important private collections, foundations, and museums namely the Calder Foundation, Foundation Paul Delvaux, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Hall Art Foundation, the Schorr Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

The gallery is currently located on the second floor of The Carlyle Hotel at 981 Madison Avenue, New York City, the former home of Ursus Books.[1] The gallery was designed by award-winning New York design firm the Steven Learner Studio, and comprises two galleries, a private viewing area, two secure, environmentally controlled storage areas, and offices. As well as staging two exhibitions a year, the gallery's directors offer advice to collectors on building collections, selling works discreetly, or buying and selling through auction. Di Donna has placed important works of art in both private and museum collections worldwide.Works are available to view at the company's private viewing space in New York.

The gallery was founded in November 2010 and was formerly known as Blain|Di Donna. A number of monographic, museum-quality exhibitions were staged there such as René Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons (2011);[2] André Masson, The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945 (2012);[3] Jean Arp: A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages (2012),[4] Paul Delvaux (2013), which was curated in close collaboration with the Paul Delvaux Foundation,[5][6] and was also displayed in London. In October 2013 it presented Dada & Surrealist Objects (2013), which exhibits works by major artists including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. In October 2015, it presented a major survey of the Surrealist Landscape with Fields of Dream: the Surrealist Landscape featuring over 70 works, several loaned from prominent foundations and private collections. It includes works by Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Alexander Calder, Leonora Carrington, Federico Castellón, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Adrien Dax, Paul Delvaux, Oscar Domínguez, Enrico Donati, Paul Eluard, Jimmy Ernst, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Arshile Gorky, Marcel Jean, Jacqueline Lamba, René Magritte, Man Ray, Matta, Joan Miró, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Pablo Picasso, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, and Antoni Tàpies.

Di Donna and Blain appeared on Art + Auction's "Power 100" list in 2010, with Di Donna featuring again in the 2012 edition.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Duray, Dan. "You're So Blain: Meet the Surreal New Upper East Side Gallery". Gallerist NY. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Halperin, Julia. "Blain Di Donna Art Gallery Makes a Surreal Debut at the Carlyle with a Magritte Trove". Artinfo. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Desire causes the current to flow': Andre Masson's Innovations in Taste". Art Critical. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Art In Review: Jean Arp: A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ Wullschlager, Jackie. "Paul Delvaux, Blain Di Donna, London - review". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Lambirth, Andrew. "Exhibition Review: Rory McEwen: the botanical artist who influenced Van Morrison; Paul Delvaux: a show to savour for its unusualness". The Spectator. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  7. ↑ "'Power 2012', Art + Auction, December 2012".

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