$22,000
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. (April 25, 1928-July 5, 2011) mixed media abstract composition in red, yellow, & purple hues on unframed & previously stretched canvas (see photographs), measuring approximately 35" in height with width of 52-1/4". Signed verso consistent with the artist's markings. Provenance: from the estate of a prominent Texas collector, passed down with no paperwork, but was acquired directly from the artist himself.Cy Twombly was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but made the specific choice to live in Europe (Italy) after 1957. His paintings of large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors are in the permanent collections of most of the museums of modern art around the world, including the Menil Collection in Houston, the Tate Modern in London or the New York's Museum of Modern Art. He was also commissioned for the ceiling of a room of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Many of his later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. In a 1994 retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe described Twombly's work as “influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well.” After acquiring Twom
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2017-02-18
