‘Making Past Present’ explores how the American painter, who died in Rome, made art that connected the ancient world with the new. In 1952, 24-year-old Cy Twombly won a grant to study art in Rome with ...
“Cy Twombly” at Gagosian is a major presentation of an artist who can be difficult to grasp. The swanky gallery’s uptown Manhattan location on Madison Avenue devotes two floors to Twombly’s output ...
Upon encountering Cy Twombly’s monumental nine-part polyptych “Untitled” (1971), I thought about the dark, domineering monolith that appears early on in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space ...
Size (unframed): H 19.5" x W 15.5" (H 49.5cm x W 39.5cm) Size (framed): H 21" x W 17" (H 53.5cm x W 43cm) ...
Like most of the artist's output, the paintings, sculpture and works on paper in this exhibition are hard to categorize but easy to love. Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1971; oil-based house paint and wax ...
Cy Twombly’s 9-foot tall Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II) was announced on Tuesday as the top lot of Christie’s marquee 21st-century auction with an estimate between US$18 million and US$25 million.
The present work is one print from Cy Twombly's Natural History Part I: Mushrooms, a series of ten works each created with a combination of lithograph, collotype, photochrome, collage and drawing.
Cy Twombly is the man who went backward. In 1957, when New York City had plainly overtaken Paris as the art world’s center of gravity, Twombly, who was not yet 30, left Manhattan to settle for good in ...
World famous abstract sculptor and painter Cy Twombly, who was born in Lexington and maintained a home there, died Tuesday in Rome after coping for years with cancer. He was 83. Lexington-based ...
It’s difficult to make a calibrated and semi-nuanced case in favor of a prominent artist who’s just died. Opinions at that moment -- and we have one here with the passing of Cy Twombly-- tend to fall ...
In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she bonds with Cy Twombly through works on paper, films and photographs. By Robin Pogrebin Exhibitions at the Getty Center and Gagosian focus on his ...
The collector’s holding companies had sued his insurers for $400 million to cover paintings that they say had been damaged in a fire. The insurers said they had survived untouched. By Colin Moynihan ...