Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
The Mo Ostin Collection
Cy Twombly
Untitled
Auction Closed
May 19, 10:59 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Mo Ostin Collection
Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
Untitled
signed with the artist's initials and dated 74 (lower right)
ink, wax crayon, graphite, tape, printed paper and paper collage on paper
29¾ by 22½ in.
75.6 by 57.2 cm.
Executed in 1974.
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Roger Davidson, Toronto
Francesco Pellizzi, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above in April 2000 by the present owner
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Roger Davidson, Toronto
Francesco Pellizzi, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above in April 2000 by the present owner
Thomas Albright, “Twombly’s Abstract Caligraphy,” San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 1975, illustrated
Suzanne Delehanty, “The Alchemy of Mind and Hand,” Arts in Virginia, vol. 18, no. 1, 1977, no. 15, p. 31, illustrated
Yvon Lambert, ed., Cy Twombly. Catalogue raisonné des oeuvres sur papier. Volume VI, 1973-1976, Milan, 1979, no. 76, p. 95, illustrated
Nicola Del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly: Drawings Catalogue Raisonné Vol. 6, 1972-1979, Munich, 2016, no. 90, p. 91, illustrated in color
Suzanne Delehanty, “The Alchemy of Mind and Hand,” Arts in Virginia, vol. 18, no. 1, 1977, no. 15, p. 31, illustrated
Yvon Lambert, ed., Cy Twombly. Catalogue raisonné des oeuvres sur papier. Volume VI, 1973-1976, Milan, 1979, no. 76, p. 95, illustrated
Nicola Del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly: Drawings Catalogue Raisonné Vol. 6, 1972-1979, Munich, 2016, no. 90, p. 91, illustrated in color
Turin, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Cy Twombly, March - April 1974
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Cy Twombly: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions 1951-1974, March - April 1975, p. 45, illustrated
Houston, Menil Foundation; Paris, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Frankfurt, Städel Galerie, Fifty Years of American Drawing: 1930-1980, April 1985 - January 1986, no. 57, p. 115, illustrated
New York, Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., Cy Twombly, September - October 1988, n.p. illustrated in color
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Cy Twombly: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions 1951-1974, March - April 1975, p. 45, illustrated
Houston, Menil Foundation; Paris, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Frankfurt, Städel Galerie, Fifty Years of American Drawing: 1930-1980, April 1985 - January 1986, no. 57, p. 115, illustrated
New York, Vrej Baghoomian, Inc., Cy Twombly, September - October 1988, n.p. illustrated in color