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Sketches

Cy Twombly

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Artwork details

Artist
Cy Twombly
Title
Sketches
Description

Cy Twombly

Sketches

1967

Medium: Etchings

Sheet size: 8 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches, each

(21.9 x 30.8 centimeters, each)

Frame size: Approximately 15 5/8 x 19 1/4 inches, each

(Approximately 39.6875 x 48.9025 centimeters, each)

Printer and Publisher: ULAE, West Islip, New York

Edition size: 18, plus proofs

Catalogue Raisonné: Bastian 12-17

Each sheet is signed, numbered, and inscribed 'a-f' in sequence in

pencil with the publisher's blindstamp, lower margin

The exceedingly rare complete portfolio of six etchings which retains

its colophon page, inner paper folder, and original paper portfolio

Date
1967
Medium
Etching
Edition
18, plus proofs
Signature
Signed
Catalogue Raisonne
Bastian 12-17
Sheet
8 5/8 x 12 1/8 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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