CY TWOMBLY | Untitled

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Collection of Malcolm Goldstein, New York
Christie’s, New York, 16 February 1984, Lot 1973
Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sotheby’s, Paris, 3 December 2013, Lot 14
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Art, Cy Twombly Paintings, Drawings, Constructions 1951-1974, March - June 1975, p. 48
New York, Nahmad Contemporary, Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele, Twombly, Basquiat, May - June 2014, pp. 104-105 and 128, illustrated in color

Suzanne Delehanty, "The Alchemy of Mind and Hand," Arts in Virginia, Vol. 18, No. I, 1977, fig. II, p. 27, illustrated
Nicola del Roscio, Cy Twombly Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, 1964-1969, Munich 2014, cat. no. 180, p. 154, illustrated in color 

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling to the edges. The top, bottom and right edges are even, inherent to the artist's chosen medium and working method. There are several brown and black pinpoint spot accretions scattered throughout the work, also likely inherent to the artist's chosen medium. The cardboard is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the top and lateral edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"Around 1967-1968, Twombly isolated the abstraction of movement, whether at rest or in motion, and its coefficient, space-time; the passionate centrifugal motion of Galatea is transformed into the supreme poetry of movement which intrigued Leonardo throughout his life… It is as if Twombly entered Leonardo’s mind to envision the affinities between natural and human processes—to see the drawn line, like a natural phenomenon, unfold in space and time.”
Suzanne Delehanty, "The Alchemy of Mind and Hand" in Nicola del Roscio, Ed., Writings on Cy Twombly, p. 68