CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Lot 133
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Lot 133 | CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
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CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Untitled

signed 'Cy Twombly' (lower right)

ink, colored pencil and graphite on paper

19 1⁄2 x 27 1⁄2 in. (49.5 x 69.9 cm.)

Executed in 1960-1961.







Provenance

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome

Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Mr. Adler, Switzerland

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

Private collection, Switzerland

Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1986





Literature

N. del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly: Drawings Catalogue Raisonné Vol. 3 1961-1963, New York, 2013, p. 20, no. 8 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Cy Twombly: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions 1951-1974, March-June 1975, p. 48 (illustrated on the invitation card).

Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cy Twombly. Bilder und Zeichnungen, May-July 1977, n.p. (illustrated).

Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, Wendepunkt: Kunst in Europa um 1960, May-July 1980, pp. 109 and 118, no. 88 (illustrated).

New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Cy Twombly, April-May 1986, no. 14 (illustrated).
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