Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Primary Structures: The Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Cy Twombly

Untitled (Formian Dreams + Actuality)

Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Untitled (Formian Dreams + Actuality)

signed and dated Aug 15 83 (upper centre)

oil and wax crayon on paper

100 by 70.3 cm. 39⅜ by 27⅝ in.

Executed on 15 August 1983.

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

Private Collection, Badenweiler

Sotheby’s, New York, 8 November 1989, lot 37 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by Ralph I. Goldenberg

Michelangelo Castello, “I tambura di pietra,” Tema Celeste: Rivista D’Arte Contemporanea, October 1984, no. 4, p. 24, illustrated in colour

William L. Vance, America’s Rome: II Catholic & Contemporary Rome, New Haven 1989, p. 439 (text)

Nicola Del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol 7, 1980-1989, New York 2013, no. 157, p. 146, illustrated in colour

Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve; London, The Mayor Gallery; and Vienna, Galerie Ulysses, Cy Twombly, January - June 1984, no. 12, n.p., illustrated in colour; and illustrated in colour (on the Galerie Karsten Greve exhibition announcement)