May 11, 2017 - Sale 2447

Sale 2447 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ROBERT DE NIRO, SR.
Plaster Cast--Buffet.

Oil on canvas, 1963. 645x990 mm; 25 3/8x39 inches. Signed and dated in oil, upper right recto, and annotated on the stretcher bars in pencil, verso.

Ex-collection Zabriskie Gallery, New York, with the label on the stretcher bar; acquired from the above by Silas Rhodes (1915-2007), New York; thence by descent. Rhodes was a co-founder of the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, New York, in 1947, which became the School of Visual Arts in 1955.