Contemporary Day Auction, including Works on Paper from the Duerckheim Collection

Contemporary Day Auction, including Works on Paper from the Duerckheim Collection

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Cy Twombly

Untitled

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Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Untitled

signed and dated Roma 1961 (upper centre)

oil, wax crayon and graphite on paper

70 by 100 cm. 27⅝ by 39⅜ in.

framed: 95.4 by 124.5 cm. 37½ by 49⅛ in.

Executed in 1961.

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome

Luciano Pistoi, Rome

Galerie D. Benador, Geneva

Private Collection, Munich

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

Private Collection, United States

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1981)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Geneva, Galerie D. Benador, Cy Twombly. Peintures, dessins, December 1963, no. 16, illustrated on the back cover (titled The Beautiful...)

Nicola Del Roscio, Cy Twombly Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol 3, 1961-1963, New York 2013, no. 20, p. 32, illustrated in colour