Literature
see Heiner Bastian 80-83
Artist Biography
Cy Twombly
American • 1928 - 2011
Cy Twombly emerged in the mid-1950s alongside New York artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. While at first developing a graffiti-like style influenced by Abstract Expressionist automatism–having notably studied under Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell at the legendary Black Mountain College between 1951 and 1952–Twombly was a prominent figure in the new generation of artists that challenged the abstract orthodoxy of the New York School. Twombly developed a highly unique pictorial language that found its purest expression upon his life-defining move to Rome in 1957. Simultaneously invoking classical history, poetry, mythology and his own contemporary lived experience, Twombly's visual idiom is distinguished by a remarkable vocabulary of signs and marks and the fusion of word and text.
Cy Twombly produced graffiti-like paintings that were inspired by the work of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. His gestural forms of lines, drips and splattering were at first not well-received, but the artist later became known as the leader of the estrangement from the Abstract Expressionism movement. Full of energy and rawness, Twombly's pieces are reminiscent of childhood sketches and reveal his inspiration from mythology and poetry.
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Cy Twombly

Octavio Paz Eight Poems - Cy Twombly Ten Drawings (see B. 80-83)

1993
The complete set of four heliogravures in colours, on Richard de Bas paper, the full sheets, with text by Octavio Paz, bound in two volumes (as issued), all contained in the original paper-covered portfolios and slipcase.
all S. 33 x 25.7 cm (12 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
slipcase 33.7 x 26.1 x 2.5 cm (13 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 7/8 in.)
Signed by the artist and author and numbered 44/100 in pencil on the colophon (from the signed special edition, there were also 10 hors commerce examples lettered A-J and an unsigned edition of 900 without the heliogravures), published by Udo and Anette Brandhorst, Cologne.

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