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ARTIST NAME: Cy Twombly
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AUCTION RESULTS AND INDEBT INFORMATION ON Cy Twombly
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Cy Twombly:
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In February 1995, The Menil
Collection, in collaboration with the artist Cy Twombly and Dia Center
for the Arts, New York, opened the Cy Twombly Gallery, an exhibition
annex housing a permanent installation of Twombly’s art. Born in 1928 in
Lexington, Virginia, Twombly studied art at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston (1947–49); the Art Students League, New York
(1950–51); and Black Mountain College in North Carolina (1951–52). In
the mid 1950s, following travels in Europe and Africa, Twombly emerged
as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that
included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1959, Twombly settled
permanently in Italy. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions
internationally and has been the subject of major retrospectives in both
Europe and America. Twombly‘s painting
combines elements of gestural abstraction, drawing, and writing in a
very personal expression. At once epic and intimate, his work is infused
with references to literature and aspects of the Mediterranean and
Near-Eastern worlds. The building houses more than thirty of Twombly’s
paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, dating from 1953 to 1994.
Among these are a number of his key, large-scale masterworks such as The
Age of Alexander, 1959–60, Triumph of Galatea, 1961, and the monumental
painting Untitled (Say Goodbye Catallus, to the Shores of The Cy Twombly Gallery is a joint project of The Menil Collection, Dia Center for the Arts, and the artist. |
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