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CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Lot 57
28.06.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 57 | CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
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CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Untitled

signed, inscribed and dated ‘Cy Twombly 1956 (signed nyc 1985)' (on the reverse)

oil-based house paint, wax crayon and graphite on canvas

45 1/8 x 53 1/4in. (114.5 x 135.3cm.)

Executed in 1956





Provenance

Robert Indiana Collection, New York and Vinalhaven (acquired directly from the artist).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1984, lot 52.

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne.

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2002).

Private Collection, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

H. Bastian (ed.), Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I, 1948-1960, Munich 1992, no. 65 (illustrated in colour, p. 123).

S. Busuttil (ed.), White, New York 2001, p. 134, no. 67 (detail illustrated, pp. 136-137).



Exhibited

Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center, Cy Twombly Paintings and Drawings, 1968, no. 7.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Cy Twombly, 1986, no. 1 (illustrated in colour on the front cover).

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Cy Twombly. Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, 1987-1988, p. 42, no. 7 (illustrated in colour, p. 43). 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.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, 1990-1991, pp. 95-96, no. 46 (illustrated, p. 94). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art.



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Artist:Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011)
Applied technique:Pencil, Oil, Painted
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Post War Art
Auction house category:Paintings
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