Live Auction 17650Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Lot 665

Cy Twombly (1928-2011)

Untitled

Closed14 November 2019

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USD 312,500

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Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed, inscribed and dated 'Cy Twombly NY 1965' (lower right)
graphite, wax crayon and colored pencil on paper
26 5/8 x 33 7/8 in. (67.6 x 86 cm.)
Executed in 1965.

Malcolm Goldstein, New York
OK Harris Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1970

Specialist note

"Each line now is 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 the private or separate indulgences rather than an abstract totality of visual perception." -- Cy Twombly