CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

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£ 2 800 000
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28.06.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 792288
Lot 39 | CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Untitled

signed and dated 'C. Twombly 1971' (on the reverse)

oil and wax crayon on canvas

19 3⁄4 x 25 3⁄4in. (50.2 x 65.4cm.)

Executed in 1971





Provenance

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples.

Ira Young Collection, Vancouver.

James Goodman Gallery, New York.

Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 May 1987, lot 12.

Private Collection.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989.



Literature

H. Bastian (ed.), Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume III 1966-1971, Munich 1994, p. 228, no. 142 (illustrated, p. 228).



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