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Untitled

Cy Twombly

Robert Fontaine Gallery United States

Artwork details

Artist: Cy Twombly
Title: Untitled
Description: Pencil, wax crayon

Signed and Dated bottom right on recto in pencil: Twombly 62

Catalogue Raisonne #199

Provenance:

-Private Collection
-Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 1990, lot 352
-Galerie Di Meo, Paris
-Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 1996, lot 270
-Cheim & Read, New York
-Kagan Martos Gallery, New York

Exhibitions:

1997 - Brussels, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Cy Twombly
2000 - New York, Kagan Martos Gallery
Date: 1962
Medium: Mixed Media
Signature: Signed
Image: 23 × 25 × 1 inches
Sheet: 15.25 × 17.75 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.