Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection
Primary Structures: The Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection
Cy Twombly
By the Ionian Sea
Auction Closed
June 25, 06:56 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
By the Ionian Sea
titled (upper element); signed and numbered 6/6 (on the base)
oil and crayon on bronze
34.6 by 57.8 by 49.2 cm. 13⅝ by 22¾ by 19⅜ in.
Executed in 1988, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
Acquired from the above in 2002 by Ralph I. Goldenberg
Nicola del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, Volume I, 1946-1997, Mosel 1997, no. 96, pp. 210-11, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)
Donald Kuspit, “Review: Cy Twombly at Gagosian Gallery,” Artforum, March 1998, p. 96, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)
Anne Sherwood Pundyk, “Cy Twombly: Sculpture,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2011 (text)
Mayer Rus, “A Frank Gehry-Designed Brentwood Estate with a Museum-Worthy Art Collection,” Architectural Digest, April 2017 (online) (another example exhibited)
Venice, Italian Pavilion, XLIII Esposizione. Internazionale D’arte. La Biennale di Venezia, June - September 1988, no. 4, p. 115 (another example exhibited)
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cy Twombly: Ten Sculptures, November - December 1997, no. 7, pp. 46-47, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Cy Twombly, Sensation of the Moment, June - October 2009 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cy Twombly: Sculpture, May 2011 - January 2012 (another example exhibited)
Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings, June - October 2012, no. 37, p. 151, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
New York, Lévy Gorvy, Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly, September - November 2013, pp. 144-45, illustrated in colour (detail), p. 147, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Long Run, November 2017 - May 2019 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, August 2022 - May 2023, no. 6, n.p. (another example exhibited)