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A Friend of The Arts: Property from the Collection of Joanne Von Blon

Cy Twombly

Natural History, Part I, No II (from Natural History Part I Mushrooms)

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May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

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7,000 - 10,000 USD

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A Friend of The Arts: Property from the Collection of Joanne Von Blon

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Natural History, Part I, No II (from Natural History Part I Mushrooms)

signed with the artist's initials and numbered 90/98 (lower right)

lithograph, grano-lithograph and collotype printed in colors with collage and hand-coloring in crayon and chalk on Rives Couronne paper

sheet: 29 ¾ by 21 ⅞ in.

75 by 55.7 cm.

Executed in 1974, this impression is number 90 from the edition of 98 plus 17 artist proofs, with the blindstamp of the printer, Matthieu Studio, published by Propyläen Verlag.

Acquired in 1985 by the present owner

Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly: The Printed Graphic Work: Catalogue Raisonné, Munich, 2017, p. 71, no. 43, another example illustrated in colors