Emmanuel Di Donna

Emmanuel Di Donna (born December 1971, in Paris) is a New York-based art dealer and Director of Di Donna Galleries (formerly Blain Di Donna), a secondary market gallery specializing in artworks by Impressionist and 20th Century European and American masters.[1]

Emmanuel Di Donna
Born1971
Paris, France
NationalityFrench

Di Donna appeared on Art + Auction's 'Power 100' list in 2010, and featured again in the 2012 edition.[2] He is married and currently lives in New York.

Career

Di Donna is an expert dealer in Surrealist and Modern art,[3] having staged a number of monographic exhibitions; René Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons (2011);[4] André Masson, The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945 (2012);[5] Jean Arp: A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages (2012),[6] Paul Delvaux (2013), which was curated in close collaboration with the Paul Delvaux Foundation, and was also displayed in London.[7][8] In October 2013, Blain|Di Donna present Dada & Surrealist Objects (2013), which exhibits works by major artists including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti.

Biography

After a master's degree in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, he joined Sotheby's in 1994 as a Director of their Paris office. He moved to London in 2001 as Acting Head of its Impressionist and Modern Art Department.[9] In 2002, he was appointed Deputy Head of Sotheby's London operations. He moved to New York in 2005 and participated in many of the firm's sales of property from private collections, including works from the Man Ray Estate, the Collection of Mrs Walter Buhl Ford III and the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger. He was involved in many landmark auctions in London and New York, including the sale of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition, which sold for $60m in 2008.[10]

He held the positions vice chairman of Sotheby's Worldwide, Senior Specialist and Head of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sales.[1] After 17 years with the firm, he departed in August 2010[9] and founded Blain|Di Donna with London Contemporary Art dealer Harry Blain.[11] In April 2015, Di Donna assumed full ownership of the gallery which is now called Di Donna Galleries.[12]

References
  1. Art Daily, 8 November 2010
  2. 'Power 2012', Art + Auction, December 2012
  3. ‘Experts Predict Art Market Trends, Part 1: Emmanuel Di Donna, Thomas Seydoux, Karsten Greve, Marc Glimcher’, Blouin Artinfo, March 2012
  4. 'Blain Di Donna Art Gallery Makes a Surreal Debut at the Carlyle with a Magritte Trove', Julia Halperin, Artinfo, 24 October 2011
  5. 'Desire causes the current to flow': Andre Masson's Innovations in Taste', Art Critical, 6 June 2012
  6. 'Art In Review: Jean Arp: A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages', The New York Times, 8 November 2012
  7. 'Paul Delvaux, Blain Di Donna, London - review', Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, 23 June 2013
  8. 'Exhibition Review: Rory McEwen: the botanical artist who influenced Van Morrison; Paul Delvaux: a show to savour for its unusualness', Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator, 29 June 2013
  9. The Art Newspaper, 28 September 2010
  10. 'Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition Sets Record at Sotheby's Sale', Art Daily, 4 November 2008
  11. "The Art Newspaper, 23 October 2010". Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  12. "ArtNet.com, 10 April 2015
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