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Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Lot 132 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR 

Cy Twombly (1928-2011)

Untitled

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 98,500

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Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Cy Twombly 1963' (lower right)
graphite and pastel on paper
27 ¾ x 19 ¾in. (70.3 x 50cm.)
Executed in 1963

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 1 July 1982, lot 378.
La Tartaruga Galleria d'Arte, Rome.
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 17 May 2007, lot 220.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“Most painting defines the image. It is at this point that I break with the more general process of painting. Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate, it is the sensation of its own realization. The imagery is one of private indulgences, rather than an abstract totality of visual perception”
(C. Twombly, quoted in L. Norden, ‘What Painting Can Contain,’ in Cy Twombly: A Gathering of Time, Six Paintings and a Sculpture, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2003, p. 16).