CY TWOMBLY | UNTITLED (AUGUSTA, GEORGIA)

The Artist

Private Collection, New York

Private Collection, Rome

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Nicola del Roscio, Ed., Cy Twombly Drawings Catalogue Raisonne Vol. 1 1951-1955, Germany 2011, p. 81, no. 25, illustrated in colour

“Unreadable missives…are their own category in Twombly’s art, the 'writing' that isn’t just imagined by the viewer, but named by the artist, one that calls to poets and writers with the seduction of all that could be said but isn’t. That never will be. These signs without attachments. Is this a love letter or one of pleading for forgiveness? Is this a note about the weather in Rome or the hunger for flesh? Is this for us or for another?”

Joshua Rivkin in Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, New York 2018, p. 194