CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Lot 34
09.05.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 34 | CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
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CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)Untitledsigned and dated 'Cy Twombly 1955' (on the reverse)oil-based house paint, wax crayon, colored pencil and lead pencil on canvas50 x 57 7⁄8 in. (127 x 147 cm.)Executed in 1955. Provenance Private collectionThomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, 2012Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature H. Bastian, Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I: 1948-1960, Munich, 1992, pp. 102-103, no. 53 (illustrated).A. Temkin, "Close-Up," Artforum, vol. 49, no. 10, 2011 (studio view illustrated). Exhibited New York, The Stable Gallery, Cy Twombly, January 1956.Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Cy Twombly, 1960 (illustrated, incorrectly titled and dated "Criticism 1956").Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Schrift en beeld/Schrift und Bild, May-August 1963, no. 406, p. 112 (illustrated).Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Cy Twombly, October 1965-February 1966, no. 4 (incorrectly titled and dated "Kritizismus 1956")Prato, Palazzo Pretorio, Due decenni di eventi artistici in Italia: 1950-1970, October-November 1970, no. 39 (illustrated).Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zeichen und Wunder, October-December 2016.Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Exhibition R93, June 2018.Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Ich weiss nicht, wer der Künstler ist, ich kenne nur seinen Preis (frei nach René Pollesch), July-September 2018.Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, From Warhol to Twombly to Marden and Back Again, September-December 2018. Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Beauty Attracts Beauty, December 2019-January 2020.
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