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Robert de Niro, Sr.
Two Figures, c.1960
c.1960

Name: Two Figures, c.1960
Brand: Robert de Niro, Sr.
Rating: 4.9 (51 reviews)

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Robert De Niro Sr. (1922-1993). Two Figures, c. 1955. Ink, paint, charcoal, pastel and conte crayon on paper. Sheet measures 26 x 40 inches; 28 x 42 inches framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Biography: Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993) was a postwar artist whose paintings combined modernist abstract and expressionist methods with traditional compositions and subject matter. Part of the New York School of the forties and fifties, De Niro, painted representational subject matter—landscapes, still lifes, and figures—but used these themes primarily as formal constructs for exploring the possibilities inherent in paint, color, and form. De Niro's utilization of action painting and gestural expression places his work within the abstract expressionist discourse but it nonetheless remains firmly grounded in European, specifically French, antecedents. Born in Syracuse, New York, De Niro showed artistic promise at a very early age. At 18, he attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina where he studied under Josef Albers. However, chafing under the rigidity of Albers' theories, he decamped to New York a year later, in 1941, to study with Hans Hofmann. De Niro had his first solo show in 1946 at Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Art of This Century. Throughout the fifties he exhibited at the Charles Egan Gallery alongside artists such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston. In the 1960s, he moved to Paris, where he continued to paint, enjoying the patronage of legendary collector Joseph Hirshhorn, and receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. De Niro often executed hundreds of studies of a single composition and scraped and repainted individual canvases repeatedly until he achieved a balance of color and line. He held a strong reverence for 19th-century French painting and greatly admired the French modernists, favoring the works of André Derain, Henri Matisse, Chaim Soutine, and Pierre Bonnard, among others. Their influence, especially in regards to De Niro's brushwork and palette, is evident in his work. De Niro continued to focus on his primary painterly interests of color and form until his death in 1993. Recently, De Niro, Sr.'s work has received renewed attention and, in 2005, a 208-page monograph on his life and work, written by Peter Frank, was published. Robert De Niro work is represented in major American museums including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Solo Exhibitions: 1945 Art of this Century Peggy Guggenheim Gallery, New York 1950 Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (also 1952, 1953, 1954) 1963 Five American Paintings, Knoedler Gallery, NY 1967 State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 1969 Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco 1970 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY (1968, 1967, 1965, 1962, 1960, 1958) 1971 Brenner Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1973 Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA 1974 Lithographs, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KA 1976 Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY (also 1955, 1956) 1978 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA William Grappo Gallery, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA Arts Gallery, Works on Paper, Baltimore, MD 1979 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also 1978) 1980 Hobart Smith College, MA 1981 Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC Foster White Gallery, Drawings by Robert De Niro, Seattle, WA 1983 David Hamilton Gallery, Charleston, NC 1984 Art Center in Hargate, St. Pauls School, Concord, NH 1986 Contemporary Arts Center, Great Falls, MT Crane Kalman Gallery, London, England Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY (also 1980, 1982, 1984, 1994 Salander -O'Reilly Galleries, Robert De Niro, Sr: Paintings, NY 1996 Salander- O'Reilly Galleries, Robert De Niro, Sr.: Charcoals, NY 1997 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Robert De Niro Sr.: Paintings, NY 1998 Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1999 Galerie Piltzer, Paris, France Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Robert De Niro, Sr.: Works on Paper, 2000 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Robert De Niro, Sr.: Landscapes, NY 2002 La Galerie Metta, Madrid, Spain 2005 Paintings, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 2006 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also 2000, 1998)

Creator:
Robert de Niro, Sr. (1922-1993, American)
Creation Year:
c.1960
Dimensions:
Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 42 in (106.68 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media,Rag Paper
Movement & Style:
Abstract Expressionist
Period:
1950-1959
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Wilton Manors, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU24522858881

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