The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction
The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from an Important East Coast Collection
Cy Twombly
Untitled
Auction Closed
November 21, 01:38 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important East Coast Collection
Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
Untitled
signed and dated 1967 (on the reverse)
oil-based housepaint and wax crayon on canvas
66 ¼ by 59 ⅛ in.
168.3 by 150.2 cm.
Executed in 1967.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Jared Sable, Toronto (by 1975)
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection, New York
Christie's New York, 5 May 1987, lot 94
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Claude Berri, Paris
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1993 by the present owner
Suzanne Delehanty, “The Alchemy of Mind and Hand,” Arts in Virginia, Vol. 18, Fall 1977, no. 9, pp. 25-26, illustrated
Heiner Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume III, 1966-1971, Munich, 1994, no. 27, pp. 84-85, illustrated in color
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and San Francisco Museum of Art, Cy Twombly: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions, 1951-1974, March - June 1975, p. 22 (text) and p. 50, illustrated
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Positionen heutiger Kunst, 1988, p. 147, illustrated in color