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Di Donna Galleries

www.didonna.com
744 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10065
212 259 0444
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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; "Man Ray’s Paris Portraits: 1921-1939," in collaboration with Timothy Baum; "Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder," in collaboration with the Calder Foundation; "Hallowed Ground: Tanguy, Lam, Penalba, Cárdenas"; and most recently, "The Surrealist Collage: Where Dreams and Reality Meet," curated in collaboration with Timothy Baum.

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).


 

 
Paths to the Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rothko and Still
A Surrealist Banquet
Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965
A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón Collection
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Past Exhibitions

The Surrealist Collage: Where Dreams and Reality Meet


April 25, 2025 - June 27, 2025
Di Donna Galleries is pleased to announce "The Surrealist Collage: Where Dreams and Reality Meet", opening at the gallery’s Madison Avenue location on April 25. Organized in collaboration with Timothy Baum—a renowned poet, essayist, collector, and expert in Dada and Surrealism—the exhibition will showcase a significant collection of collages by leading Surrealist artists. "The Surrealist Collage" celebrates the evocative power of collage as a unique medium and explores how it embodied both the imagination and ingenuity of the Surrealists. By assembling fragments of printed images, photographs, and other ephemera, they created dreamlike compositions that merged the boundaries between reality and the imagination. The exhibition features works by Surrealist poets and artists alike, including André Breton, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Nusch Éluard, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Georges Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, René Magritte, Man Ray, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Jindřich Štyrský, Remedios Varo, and others active in the movement.

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.