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Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
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signed and dated 'Cy Twombly 1963' (lower right)
graphite and pastel on paper
27 ¾ x 19 ¾in. (70.3 x 50cm.)
Executed in 1963

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 1 July 1982, lot 378.
La Tartaruga Galleria d'Arte, Rome.
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 17 May 2007, lot 220.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

N. del Roscio (ed.), Cy Twombly, Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3, 1961-1963, New York 2013, no. 219 (illustrated in colour, p. 159).

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Lot Essay

“Most painting defines the image. It is at this point that I break with the more general process of painting. Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate, it is the sensation of its own realization. The imagery is one of private indulgences, rather than an abstract totality of visual perception”
(C. Twombly, quoted in L. Norden, ‘What Painting Can Contain,’ in Cy Twombly: A Gathering of Time, Six Paintings and a Sculpture, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2003, p. 16).

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