SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- This summer two venues in San Francisco will be honoring the work Enrico Donati—considered the last living Surrealist artist—with major exhibitions. Weinstein Gallery will be mounting its much-anticipated follow-up retrospective of Donati’s work in June & July of 2007, after its premiere exhibition in the summer of 2006. This retrospective, on view through August 30th, will include paintings from the artist’s entire oeuvre, spanning seven decades from the 1940s through the present, and will take place at Weinstein Gallery’s flagship location, 301 Geary Street.

The de Young Museum, which recently acquired Donati’s seminal sculpture Fist for its permanent collection, has organized The Surreal World of Enrico Donati, on view from June 9 to September 2. The exhibition, curated by the head of American Art for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Timothy Burgard, will include over fifty paintings and sculpture by the artist from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as dozens of Donati's collected "Surrealist Objects"—including fossils, figurines, petrified objects, and even a pipe made for Donati by Marcel Duchamp.

“I can honestly say that working so closely with the De Young Museum to give Enrico dual exhibitions that he will attend - at age 98 - is the honor of a lifetime,” says Rowland Weinstein, president of Weinstein Gallery.

Weinstein Gallery is located at 301 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94102; (415) 362-8151, open seven days a week from 10-6 PM. The de Young Museum is located in Golden Gate Park, at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, (415) 863-3330, open Tues.-Fri.