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Cy Twombly
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description
- Cy Twombly
- Untitled
- signed and dated Roma 1961
oil, pencil and wax crayon on canvas
- 25 5/8 by 19 3/4 in. 65 by 50 cm.
Provenance
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne
Private Collection, Cologne
Acquired by the present Estate from the above in 1976
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Änne Abels, Cy Twombly, 1963, n. p., illustrated
Literature
Heiner Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume 2: 1961-1965, Munich, 1992, cat. no. 33, p. 91, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
“These paintings are light and airy, as if Twombly had opened wide windows and caught inside and outside precisely at these points with perfect transparency. It is as though he wanted to let us feel that he stood before the pictures’ surfaces, returning repeatedly from experiences with dreams and voices that are now the echo of himself and others.” (Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly: Bilder – Paintings 1952-1976, Berlin, 1978, vol. I , p. 17)