Contemporary Art Day Auction
Contemporary Art Day Auction
CY TWOMBLY | VENUS
Auction Closed
June 30, 09:53 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
CY TWOMBLY
1928 - 2011
VENUS
signed and dated Rome 1962 on the reverse
graphite, colored pencil and watercolor on paper
27½ by 19¾ in. 69.9 by 50.2 cm.
framed: 31½ by 23¾ in. 80 by 60.3 cm.
Galleria Notizie, Turin
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Studio Febo, Rome
The Lone Star Foundation, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1978)
Dia Art Foundation, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 2013, Lot 57
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Nicola Del Roscio, Cy Twombly Drawings Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3, 1961-1963, Munich 2013, cat. no. 204, illustrated in color
Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cy Twombly: Bilder und Zeichnungen, May - July 1977, n.p., illustrated in color
The Hague, Artline, Cy Twombly, January - February 1978, n.p., illustrated
Houston, The Menil Collection; Des Moines Art Center, Cy Twombly, September 1989 - June 1990, cat. no. 11, n.p., illustrated in color