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CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed, inscribed and dated ‘Cy Twombly 1956 (signed nyc 1985)' (on the reverse)
oil-based house paint, wax crayon and graphite on canvas
45 1/8 x 53 1/4in. (114.5 x 135.3cm.)
Executed in 1956
Provenance
Robert Indiana Collection, New York and Vinalhaven (acquired directly from the artist).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1984, lot 52.
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne.
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2002).
Private Collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
H. Bastian (ed.), Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I, 1948-1960, Munich 1992, no. 65 (illustrated in colour, p. 123).
S. Busuttil (ed.), White, New York 2001, p. 134, no. 67 (detail illustrated, pp. 136-137).
Exhibited
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center, Cy Twombly Paintings and Drawings, 1968, no. 7.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Cy Twombly 1986, no. 1 (illustrated in colour on the front cover).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Cy Twombly Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, 1987-1988, p. 42, no. 7 (illustrated in colour, p. 43). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Palacio de Velazquez and Palacio de Cristal; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, 1990-1991, pp. 95-96, no. 46 (illustrated, p. 94). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art.
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