拍品專文
This work will be included in the Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings being compiled by Heiner Bastian, Berlin and is registered with the preliminary archive number 70-35.
This work relates to a series of paintings on grey backgrounds produced in Rome and New York in 1970, as well as a group of works on paper known as Roman Notes, also executed in 1970. They are characterised by a wirey calligraphy that joyfully winds its way horizontally across the canvas like flowing handwriting on a page.
Heiner Bastian writes, "As if in rebellion against the humdrum fact, [Twombly's] 'sentence' seems to parse a nameless order that lights the canvas in a gently falling rhythm. This 'script' undulates through the pictorial space, thrilling itself and exceeding all contigencies of final release; yet as enigmatic inscription, it denies resolution." (In: Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. III 1966-1971, Berlin 1994, p. 33).
This work relates to a series of paintings on grey backgrounds produced in Rome and New York in 1970, as well as a group of works on paper known as Roman Notes, also executed in 1970. They are characterised by a wirey calligraphy that joyfully winds its way horizontally across the canvas like flowing handwriting on a page.
Heiner Bastian writes, "As if in rebellion against the humdrum fact, [Twombly's] 'sentence' seems to parse a nameless order that lights the canvas in a gently falling rhythm. This 'script' undulates through the pictorial space, thrilling itself and exceeding all contigencies of final release; yet as enigmatic inscription, it denies resolution." (In: Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, vol. III 1966-1971, Berlin 1994, p. 33).