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Flowers

Cy Twombly

Robert Fontaine Gallery United States

Artwork details

Artist

Cy Twombly

Title

Flowers

Description

1960/'70

Pastel and graphite on paper

Signed on the reverse
Artwork registered in the Fondazione Cy Twombly, curated by Nicola del Roscio

Provenance:

-Finarte, Italy, Modern & Contemporary Art, 28 May 2020, Lot 53

-‌Private collection, FL

Date

1960

Medium

Drawing

Signature

Signed

Sheet

12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

The Artist

Cy Twombly

Recipient of the Golden Lion in the Venice Biennale of 2001, Cy Twombly (born Edwin Parker and then renamed ‘Cy’ by his father, an athletics teacher and avid fan of Cyclone Young, a celebrated baseball pitcher of the late nineteenth century). Although he can be included in Abstract Expressionism, his legacy remains rather singular and unclassifiable. When he was 14, he was trained in drawing by Pierre Dura and along with his spiritual father, Nicholas Poussin, they reinvented classical antiquity. In his early years, he was influenced by Kurt Schwitters’ Dadaism and Chaim Soutine’s Expressionism, while he also followed the work of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. His close friendship with Robert Rauschenberg defined his artistic career.