Robert De Niro, Sr.: [title needed] presents several works from 1958 to 1960, anchored by the significant oil painting Nude Seated, Back View (1960) alongside still lifes and a charcoal drawing. Closely associated with the second generation of Abstract Expressionists yet committed to figuration, De Niro sustained a dialogue between abstraction and representation throughout his career — shaped by study with Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers, yet devoted, as critic Robert Storr noted, to never giving up the image. The presentation coincides with the gallery's broader exhibition of works from the collection of Robert A. Ellison, Jr., placing De Niro within the dynamic postwar downtown New York art scene.
