ID 990264
Lot 125 | CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
Estimate value
£ 180 000 – 250 000
Untitled
signed, inscribed and dated 'Cy Twombly Roma 1961' (on the reverse)
graphite, wax crayon and coloured pencil on paper
13 1/8 x 14in. (33.3 x 35.6cm.)
Executed in 1961
Provenance
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne.
Ingrid and Willi Kemp Collection, Düsseldorf (acquired from the above in 1963).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Neue Farben - Eine Auswahl aus der Sammlung Kemp, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, 2011, p. 501.
N. Del Roscio, Cy Twombly Drawings, Cat. Rais. Vol. 3 1961-1963, Munich 2013, no. 38 (illustrated in colour, p. 44).
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cy Twombly, 1963.
Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Die Sammlung Ingrid und Willi Kemp, 2001, p. 473 (illustrated in colour, p. 346).
Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Schrift, Zeichen, Geste, Carlfriedrich Claus im Kontext von Klee bis Pollock, 2005 (illustrated in colour, p. 341).
Special Notice
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