Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
Cy Twombly (1928-2011)

Untitled

Details
Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Cy Twombly Mar. 1970' (on the reverse)
gouache and wax crayon on card
27½ x 34 3/8in. (70 x 87.5cm.)
Executed in 1970
Provenance
Galerie Art in Progress, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1981.
Exhibited
Siegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Cy Twombly Photographien 1951-2011, 2011.

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Lot Essay

The work will be included in the Catalogue Raisonn of Cy Twombly Drawings being prepared by Nicola Del Roscio.



'Each line now is the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate - it is the sensation of its own realization...' (C. Twombly quoted in K. Varnedoe (ed.), Cy Twombly: A Retrospective, exh.cat., New York, 1994, p. 27).

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