Artwork details

Artist

Title

Untitled

Description

This original lithograph in colours is hand signed by the artist with his initials in black ink “C T.”, on a label verso.
It is also hand numbered in black ink above the signature from the edition of 250, verso. There were also 30 artist’s proofs aside from the standard edition, numbered with Roman numerals.
This lithograph was printed by Henry Deckner, Cologne and was published by Verein Progressiver Galerien, Köln, in 1970.

Note: This lithograph was commissioned for a special, deluxe edition of the 1970 Cologne Art Fair Catalogue under the supervision of Hans Neuendorf, Hamburg.

Literature: Bastian, H. (2017). Cy Twombly: The Printed Graphic Work: Catalogue Raisonné. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel.
Reference: Bastian 28

Condition: Excellent condition.

Date

1970

Medium

Colour Lithograph

Edition

250

Signature

Signed

Sheet

31.5 x 42.5 cm

Status

Available

Price

$12,500.00

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.