Back to all Member GalleriesDi Donna Galleries
744 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10065
212 259 0444
New York, NY 10065
212 259 0444
Di Donna Galleries specializes in museum-quality exhibitions and sales of European and American art from 1900 to 1970, with an emphasis on Surrealism. The gallery also advises private and institutional clients in building distinguished collections; it has placed important works of art in private collections and museums worldwide.
Founded in 2010 by Emmanuel Di Donna, formerly Vice Chairman of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Worldwide, Di Donna Galleries has organized monographic exhibitions of work by René Magritte, André Masson, and Andy Warhol, among others—in addition to ambitious group exhibitions. Di Donna Galleries opened a state-of-the-art space on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2016 with the inaugural exhibition, "Paths to the Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rothko, and Still," uniting masterworks that exemplify two defining moments in the evolution of European and American abstract painting.
Subsequent exhibitions have included: "A Surrealist Banquet;" "Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965," curated by Germano Celant; "Moon Dancers: Yup’ik Masks and the Surrealists," organized in collaboration with Donald Ellis Gallery; "A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Juan Antonio Pérez Simón Collection;" "The Life of Forms;" "Surrealism in Mexico; " Enigma & Desire: Man Ray Paintings," in collaboration with Andrew Strauss of the Man Ray Expertise Committee. In Spring 2023, in collaboration with Timothy Baum, Di Donna presented "Man Ray’s Paris Portraits: 1921-1939," featuring 70 rare vintage silver prints; this show celebrated Man Ray and his community in Paris and included rarely seen self-portraits and intimate portrayals of André Breton, Meret Oppenheim, Marcel Duchamp, André Derain, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Paul Éluard, Tristan Tzara, and Louis Aragon, among others.
From April to June 2024, Di Donna Galleries, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, is honored to present "Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder." The exhibition brings together over forty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from public and private collections to show the artists’ work in dialogue.
Di Donna Galleries participates annually in Art Basel in Switzerland and Paris, and in TEFAF New York. We are a member of The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).
A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón Collection
Paths to the Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rothko and Still
Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965
A Surrealist Banquet
Hallowed Ground: Tanguy, Lam, Penalba, Cárdenas
October 29, 2024 - December 6, 2024
Di Donna Galleries is pleased to present "Hallowed Ground: Tanguy, Lam, Penalba, Cárdenas", an exhibition on view at the gallery’s Madison Avenue location from October 30 to December 6. The exhibition unites the works of Yves Tanguy, Wifredo Lam, Alicia Penalba, and Agustín Cárdenas—artists whose journeys from diverse locales converged in the creative capital of Paris. The exhibition explores how these masters integrated their native environments within the framework of Parisian Modernism, showcasing Tanguy and Lam’s fantastical painted worlds alongside Penalba and Cárdenas’ poignant sculptures. Each of these artists used their shifting environments, as well as their native natural landscapes, as resonant material, emphasizing their respective cultures and individual narratives. Elements found in both Tanguy and Lam’s painted worlds appear to come forth into real space with the sculptures of Penalba and Cárdenas.
Monday - Friday | 10AM - 6PM
Saturday November 2, 9, 16 | 11AM - 6PM
Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder
April 18, 2024 - June 8, 2024
Di Donna Galleries is pleased to announce Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder, organized in close collaboration with the Calder Foundation. The first exhibition in eighty years to pair these Modern masters, Enchanted Reverie brings together over forty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper to present Paul Klee (1879–1940) and Alexander Calder (1898–1976) in dialogue, illuminating their shared metaphysical understanding of the universe’s unseen forces.
The exhibition includes loans from distinguished private collections and international institutions including the Fondation Beyeler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as an impressive selection of works from the Calder Foundation. A fully illustrated catalogue featuring essays by historians Olivier Berggruen and Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner will accompany the exhibition.