Lot 12
12
Cy Twombly (b. 1928)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION
Cy Twombly (b. 1928)

Untitled [New York City]

Details
Cy Twombly (b. 1928)
Untitled [New York City]
oil and pencil on canvas
26¾ x 56 in. (68 x 142.2 cm.)
Painted in 1956
Provenance
The Stable Gallery, New York.
Heiner Friedrich, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1970.
Literature
M. de la Motte, "Cy Twombly," Kunstforum International, no. 4/5, 1973 (illustrated, p. 120).
H. Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1948-1960, vol. I, Munich, 1992, p. 127, no. 69 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Bern and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Cy Twombly, Bilder 1953-1972, April-August 1973, no. 2 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Please note the exhibition catalogue of the Kunsthalle, Bern, 1973 and the journal Kunstforum International, 1973 had incorrectly reproduced the present lot with the next lot [13] as one painting with two parts.


Fig. 1 Cy Twombly, 1955, photograph by Louis A. Stevenson

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