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 Artworks

Cy Twombly (2,337 results)

Untitled (Bastian 32), 1971

Cy Twombly

Untitled (Bastian 32), 1971

Sale Date: April 19, 2024

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Untitled, from: "New York Collection for..., 1973

Sale Date: April 25, 2024

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Untitled, from Hommage à Picasso (B. 41), 1973

Cy Twombly

Untitled, from Hommage à Picasso (B. 41), 1973

Sale Date: April 17, 2024

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8 odi di orazio, 1968

Cy Twombly

8 odi di orazio, 1968

Sale Date: April 16, 2024

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8 odi di orazio, 1968

Cy Twombly

8 odi di orazio, 1968

Sale Date: April 16, 2024

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Senza titolo

Cy Twombly

Sale Date: April 10, 2024

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8 odi di orazio, 1968

Cy Twombly

8 odi di orazio, 1968

Sale Date: March 26, 2024

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Untitled (Roman Note), 1970

Cy Twombly

Untitled (Roman Note), 1970

Sale Date: March 13, 2024

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No. X, from Natural History Part I: Mushrooms, 1974

Cy Twombly

No. X, from Natural History Part I: Mushrooms, 1974

Sale Date: March 14, 2024

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Untitled, 1969

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Untitled, 1969

Sale Date: March 6, 2024

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Untitled, 1961

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1961

Sale Date: March 9, 2024

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Tree (II), 1994

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Tree (II), 1994

Sale Date: March 1, 2024

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Tree (I), 1994

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Tree (I), 1994

Sale Date: March 1, 2024

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Untitled, 1970

Cy Twombly

Untitled, 1970

Sale Date: March 1, 2024

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Natural History Part I: Mushrooms, 1974

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Natural History Part I: Mushrooms, 1974

Sale Date: February 15, 2024

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Five Greek Poets and A Philosopher, 1978

Cy Twombly

Five Greek Poets and A Philosopher, 1978

Sale Date: February 15, 2024

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Natural History Part I. Mushrooms II, 1974

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Natural History Part I. Mushrooms II, 1974

Sale Date: March 22, 2023

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Octavio Paz. Eight poems. Ten drawings, 1993

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Octavio Paz. Eight poems. Ten drawings, 1993

Sale Date: February 1, 2024

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Untitled (Detail of Painting)

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Untitled (Detail of Painting)

Sale Date: February 13, 2024

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Untilted, 1970

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Untilted, 1970

Sale Date: April 18, 2021

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Senza titolo (Dalle 8 Odi di Orazio), 1968

Cy Twombly

Senza titolo (Dalle 8 Odi di Orazio), 1968

Sale Date: January 17, 2024

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

Cy Twombly

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

Sale Date: January 17, 2024

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Domitilla, 1991

Cy Twombly

Domitilla, 1991

Sale Date: December 15, 2023

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Senza titolo

Cy Twombly

Sale Date: December 19, 2023

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