The Art Newspaper: New York dealer Annina Nosei donates catalogues to Magazzino Italian Art

Annina Nosei, the Italian-born gallerist who was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first art dealer and staged his debut New York solo show, has donated the nearly three-decade run of her eponymous gallery’s catalogues to Magazzino Italian Art’s Germano Celant Research Center in Cold Spring, New York, the museum announced Thursday (16 May).

Taken together, the catalogues chronicle a “significant and tumultuous period in recent art history”, Magazzino said in a statement. Nosei previously donated most of the gallery’s archive to the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University (NYU).

Nosei was born and raised in Rome, studied literature and philosophy and worked at Ileana Sonnabend's gallery in Paris before moving to the US in 1964 to teach at the University of Michigan on a Fulbright grant. She later taught in California and New York.