Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. Page #2
would help him, too,
and be supportive
of him and his work.
I wouldn't see him that often.
Sometimes I'd see him in
the street, I'd run into him,
you know, or I'd
see him on his bike.
He liked to take me to movies.
So, I remember seeing--
is it "Beauty and the Beast"
that was Cocteau?
I can't remember.
Charlie Chaplin...
the original
"King Kong", I think.
And we'd go to movies
on 42nd Street.
He liked me
to go to his shows,
which I didn't want to
do when I was young,
but my kids
are the same way, so...
One of my father's first
big opportunities
was when he had a show at
Peggy Guggenheim's
Art of This Century.
I'm sure it meant
a lot to him.
STORR:
Peggy Guggenheimwas a power broker
who had gone to Europe,
befriended most of the
great modernists of Paris
and then came back
during the war
Art of This Century.
It was in this context that
she was first presenting
American artists as the
peers of all of these
famous European artists.
And so, to have Peggy
Guggenheim pick you for a show
was a very, very big deal
and it made reputations.
KELLY:
De Niro exhibitedin the Fall Salon
at The Art of This Century
gallery in 1945.
The show was largely made
up of abstract paintings,
but the figures influenced by
Analytical Cubism were still,
to some extent, recognizable.
The figurative strain in
his work soon took over,
influenced by Ingres,
Corot and Courbet.
MAN:
His entry into the artworld was that he captured the
attention of this art world.
gotten reviews
in all of the art magazines.
Clement Greenberg
was a potent voice.
De NIRO:
"Peggy Guggenheimhas discovered another
important abstract painter
"at her Art of
This Century gallery--
"Robert De Niro, whose first
show exhibits monumental effects
rare in abstract art."
KELLY:
Thomas Hess was theeditor of "Art News."
Hess developed a series,
which became very popular
was a part of.
STORR:
In terms of power people,starting with Peggy Guggenheim
and Tom Hess, you couldn't
have done better in those years.
Right away, when we
got out of Hofmann's,
this is when he started selling.
He got very good write-ups.
And he was still young,
maybe in his early 30s,
he was already painting
like someone very mature.
He found his way very early
and didn't much change
in 30 or 40 years
of painting.
He didn't have the struggle
that many of us had with going
this way or that way
to find our way.
He had known right
away what he was.
His studio, I mean,
this was it.
It was really like this
moving, live, active place.
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