Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection

Cy Twombly

Untitled

Live auction begins on:

May 13, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection 

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Untitled

oil, oil based house paint and graphite on canvas

38 by 55 ⅞ in.

96.5 by 142 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Private Collection, Italy

Sotheby’s London, 2 July 1975, lot 107 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Rome (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above circa 1977)

Thence by decent to the present owner 

Heiner Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I, 1948-1960, Munich, 1992, no. 127, p. 203, illustrated

Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Un'avventura internazionale: Torino e le Arti 1950-1970, February - April 1993, p. 267, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1962-63)

Genoa, Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, Andy Warhol sul comò. Opere dalla collezione Rosetta Barabino, April - July 2015, pp. 34, 84-85, illustrated (in installation), p. 87, illustrated in color (detail), p. 91, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 183, illustrated (incorrectly dated circa 1961)