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Property from an Important American Collection
CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
Birth of Venus
Details
CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)
Birth of Venus
signed, inscribed and dated 'Cy Twombly Roma May 1963' (on the reverse)
wax crayon and graphite on paper
13 x 13 7⁄8 in. (33 x 35.2 cm.)
Executed in 1963.
Birth of Venus
signed, inscribed and dated 'Cy Twombly Roma May 1963' (on the reverse)
wax crayon and graphite on paper
13 x 13 7⁄8 in. (33 x 35.2 cm.)
Executed in 1963.
Provenance
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 10 November 1993, lot 177
Private collection, New York
Private collection, Aspen
By descent from the above to the present owner
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 10 November 1993, lot 177
Private collection, New York
Private collection, Aspen
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
N. del Roscio, Cy Twombly Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 3 1961-1963, Munich, 2013, p. 197, no. 280 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Rome, Studio Arco D'Alibert, Segno e Scrittura, Gastone Novelli - Cy Twombly, February 1986, p. 10 (illustrated).
Brought to you by
Rachel Ng
Associate Specialist, Acting Head of Sale, Post-War to Present