Legendary Filmmaker John Waters On the Audacity of Cy Twombly

New York | April–May 2016

What is it like to live with a work by post-war master Cy Twombly? According to legendary filmmaker John Waters, it’s “great because every day when you pass it you think of his nerve. The audacity of him doing this.”  Watch our video to find out more about John Waters’ longstanding admiration for the artist and to see the two Twombly paintings that will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 11 May in New York. 

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