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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Cy Twombly

Untitled (Snafu)

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Untitled (Snafu)

incised with the artist's initials and numbered 2/3 (lower edge)

bronze

35 ¼ by 15 ¾ by 7 ⅝ in.

89.3 by 40 by 19.3 cm.

Executed in 2009, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3.

Cy Twombly Foundation

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner

Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Cy Twombly: Photographs III, 1951- 2010, Munich, 2011 , pl. 78, 79, 81, n.p., illustrated in color (photographed by the artist in the foundry in 2009) (edition no. unknown)

Michael Krüger, Cy Twombly, Vol. IV: Unpublished Photographs 1951- 2011, Munich, 2012, pl. 27, n.p., illustrated in color (photographed by the artist in the foundry in 2009) (edition no. unknown)

Nicola Del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, Volume II, 1998-2011, Munich, 2019, no. 94, pp. 202-03, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)

Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Cy Twombly, March - May 2009, p. 222, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cy Twombly: Eight Sculptures, September - October 2009, no. 2, pp. 43, 53, illustrated in color and p. 44, illustrated in color (detail) (another example)

London,Gagosian Gallery, Cy Twombly: Sculptures, September - December 2019, no. 5, pp. 19, 36, illustrated in color (in installation), pp. 38-39, 150, illustrated in color and p. 42, illustrated in color (detail)