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Natural History Part I, Mushrooms

Cy Twombly

Susan Sheehan Gallery United States

Artwork details

Artist
Cy Twombly
Title
Natural History Part I, Mushrooms
Description

Cy Twombly

Natural History Part I, Mushrooms

1974

Medium: Lithographs, grano-lithographs, collotypes, and photochromes; with hand-collage, hand-coloring, crayon, and painting by the artist after printing

Sheet size: 29 7/8 x 22 inches, each

(75.9 x 55.9 centimeters, each)

Frame size: 38 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches, each

(97.2 x 76.8 centimeters, each)

Printer: Matthieu Studio, Zurich-Dielsdorf

Publisher: Propyläen Verlag, Berlin

Edition size: 98, plus proofs

Catalogue Raisonné: Bastian 42-51

Each sheet is initialed, I-VI and VIII-X are numbered 61/98, and VII is numbered 54/98 in

pencil, lower right; printer's blindstamp and copyright stamp, lower left

 

The very rare complete portfolio of ten mixed media prints that retains its original paper-bound portfolio

Date
1974
Medium
Lithograph
Edition
98, plus proofs
Signature
Signed
Catalogue Raisonne
Bastian 42-51
Sheet
29 7/8 x 22 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.

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