Article: Robert De Niro, Sr., at Salander-O'Reilly.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

Andre Malraux maintained that a painter's first creative impulse comes not directly from nature but from some preceding work of art. This was especially true of the painter Robert De Niro, who lived a solitary existence shut off from the world, totally dedicated to the spirit of Rembrandt, Delacroix, Daumier, Corot, Manet Cezanne, Bonnard and Matisse. Postcard reproductions of their works surrounded him. Their compositions aided him in his own work.

The present exhibition, the first since the artist's death in 1993, consisted of 16 mostly large paintings. They covered a period beginning in 1966 and included his last, unfinish work, a still life in an interior that ...

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