ID 1044980
Lot 35 | CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
Estimate value
£ 500 000 – 700 000
Untitled
signed, numbered and stamped with the artist's signature ‘5/6 Cy Twombly’ (on the underside)
painted synthetic resin
66 x 8 ½ x 6 ¼in. (168 x 21.5 x 16cm.)
Executed in 1977, this work is number five from an edition of six
Provenance
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s New York, 15 May 2002, lot 35.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, in partnership with Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
N. Del Roscio (ed.), Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, Volume I, 1946-1997, Munich 1997, p. 66, no. 24 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 67).
Exhibited
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Cy Twombly. Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, 1987-1988, no. 103, pp. 188 and 227 (incorrectly dated '1976'; illustrated, p. 189). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Palacio de Velazquez and Palacio de Cristal; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne.
Paris, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cy Twombly: Peintures, Oeuvres sur Papier et Sculptures, 1993.
São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo Parque do Ibirapuera, 23ª Bienal de São Paulo - Salas Especiais, 1996, p. 502 (another from the edition exhibited; incorrectly dated '1976').
Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cy Twombly, 1997, pp. 70 and 125 (incorrectly dated ‘1976’; illustrated in colour, p. 71; installation view illustrated in colour, p. 122.)
Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst, Illuminasjoner: kunst fra to tusenårsskifter. Illuminations: art from two millennia, 2000, pp. 32 and 118 (illustrated in colour, p. 33; incorrectly dated '1976').
Edinburgh, Inverleith House, Evergreen, 2005.
Rome, Gagosian Gallery, Made in Italy, 2011, pp. 38-39 (another from the edition exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 11; illustrated in colour, pp. 143 and 164).
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Deliberation. Curated by Maison d'Art. Works from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, 2023.
Berlin, Bastian Gallery, Forms and Shades, 2023.
| Artist: | Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Artist: | Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
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