Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Cy Twombly
Untitled
Auction Closed
May 14, 12:59 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
Untitled
oil, oil based house paint and graphite on canvas
38 by 55 ⅞ in.
96.5 by 142 cm.
Executed in 1959.
Private Collection, Italy
Sotheby’s London, 2 July 1975, lot 107 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Rome (acquired from the above sale)
Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above circa 1977)
Thence by decent to the present owner
Heiner Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume I, 1948-1960, Munich, 1992, no. 127, p. 203, illustrated
Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Un'avventura internazionale: Torino e le Arti 1950-1970, February - April 1993, p. 267, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1962-63)
Genoa, Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, Andy Warhol sul comò. Opere dalla collezione Rosetta Barabino, April - July 2015, pp. 34, 84-85, illustrated (in installation), p. 87, illustrated in color (detail), p. 91, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 183, illustrated (incorrectly dated circa 1961)
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