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Property from an Important Private European Collection

Cy Twombly

Untitled

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private European Collection

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Untitled

signed, dated 1968 and inscribed NYC (on the reverse)

oil and wax crayon on paper

30 by 40 in.

76.3 by 101.7 cm.

Executed in 1968.

Acquired in 1968 by the present owner

Nicola Del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné Volume 4: 1964-1969, Munich, 2014, no. 193, p. 167, illustrated in color

Nicola Del Roscio, ed., The Essential Cy Twombly, New York, 2014, no. 25, p. 41, illustrated in color

Nicola Del Roscio, ed., "Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings," Gagosian Quarterly, February - April 2015, p. 146, illustrated in color

Kunsthalle Bremen and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Von Beuys bis Cindy Sherman: Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, May - September 1999, no. 318, p. 170, illustrated in color (titled Study after Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase)