Contemporary Art Day Auction

Contemporary Art Day Auction

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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