Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly (1928-2011), born in Lexington, Virginia, lived and worked in Lexington, Rome and Gaeta, Italy. Known for his gestural strokes of paint, broad areas of empty space and his inimitable, nearly illegible scrawl, Twombly developed a style where every line and color carries energy, spirituality, and significance. Gaining recognition in the mid-1950s after extensive travels across Europe and North Africa, he created works that blend personal expression with mythology, allowing narrative, language, and inner visions to emerge from his abstract notations. Although a contemporary of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Twombly's work soon diverged from American postwar abstraction. While movements like Pop art distanced themselves from historical narratives, he turned toward ancient, classical, and modern poetic traditions. As Twombly lived in various locations over the decades – and spent a significant part of his life in Italy – places, landscapes, and natural forms came to figure prominently in his collages, photographs, and watercolors.
Untitled (Detail of Painting)
2002/2007
From Re-Object/Mythos
Digital pigment print (Ditone) on Inova paper, from a drypoint, 81 x 61 cm (32 x 24 in). Edition of 45, signed and numbered.
This edition was published as part of the group portfolio Re-Object/Mythos, which was released on the occasion of two exhibitions held at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2007 dedicated to the topics of the object and the myth, respectively.
EUR 3,000
