Cy Twombly

(American, 1928–2011)

Cy Twombly was a seminal American artist who came of age immediately following the Abstract Expressionist generation. His iconic large-scale paintings consisted of looping marks scribbled and smeared on raw canvas or linen. Twombly’s practice melded his interest in Roman and Greek mythological stories, including Leda and the Swan, with the frenetic doodling of chalk on a blackboard. “My line is childlike but not childish. It is very difficult to fake,” he once explained. “To get that quality you need to project yourself into the child's line. It has to be felt.” Born Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. on April 25, 1928 in Lexington, VA, he went on to attend the Art Students League of New York where he met Robert Rauschenberg. It was Rauschenberg who recommended that he enroll at the Black Mountain College. While at the college, Twombly studied under Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, who introduced him to the work of Paul Klee. From 1960 onward, the artist spent the majority of his time between Rome and the medieval port city of Gaeta, where he steeped himself in thoughts of the Mediterranean Sea and ancient naval battles that had taken place there. He died on July 5, 2011 in Rome, Italy. In 2016, the Centre Georges Pompidou held a major exhibition on the Twombly, which included an assortment of 140 works ranging from sculptures and drawings to paintings and photographs. Today, the artist’s works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Courtauld Institute in London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which in 1989 devoted an entire room to his 10-painting suite Fifty Days at Iliam (1978).

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Cy Twombly (2,366 results)
Untitled, 1970

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1970

Sale Date: December 3, 2022

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Sans titre, 1971

Cy Twombly

Sans titre, 1971

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Sans titre, 1971

Cy Twombly

Sans titre, 1971

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Natural History Part II Trees (Some Trees of , 1976

Cy Twombly

Natural History Part II Trees (Some Trees of , 1976

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Natural History Part I Mushrooms, 1974

Cy Twombly

Natural History Part I Mushrooms, 1974

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Untitled, 1971

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1971

Sale Date: December 1, 2022

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Untitled, 1973

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1973

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Untitled, 1960–1961

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1960–1961

Sale Date: November 18, 2022

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Natural History Part I, Mushrooms, No. VI, 1974

Cy Twombly

Natural History Part I, Mushrooms, No. VI, 1974

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Natural History Part I, Mushrooms, No. VII, 1974

Cy Twombly

Natural History Part I, Mushrooms, No. VII, 1974

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Natural History Part I, Mushrooms, No. III, 1974

Cy Twombly

Natural History Part I, Mushrooms, No. III, 1974

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Untitled, 2005

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 2005

Sale Date: November 15, 2022

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Hommage à Picasso, Auflage XXX, 1973

Cy Twombly

Hommage à Picasso, Auflage XXX, 1973

Sale Date: November 19, 2022

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Untitled., 1970

Cy Twombly

Untitled., 1970

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Untitled, 1963–1964

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1963–1964

Sale Date: November 30, 2022

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Untitled (Winters Passage), 1985

Cy Twombly

Untitled (Winters Passage), 1985

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Untitled, 1957

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1957

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Untitled, 1970

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1970

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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10 Day Wait at Mugda, 1963

Cy Twombly

10 Day Wait at Mugda, 1963

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Untitled, 1990

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1990

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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STUDIO LEXINGTON, 2008

Cy Twombly

STUDIO LEXINGTON, 2008

Sale Date: November 10, 2022

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Bay for Naples, 1970

Cy Twombly

Bay for Naples, 1970

Sale Date: October 25, 2022

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Sarajevo, from Art and Sports, 1984

Cy Twombly

Sarajevo, from Art and Sports, 1984

Sale Date: November 1, 2022

Auction Closed

6 Latin Writers and Poets, 1975

Cy Twombly

6 Latin Writers and Poets, 1975

Sale Date: October 28, 2022

Auction Closed

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