Cy Twombly Signed American Abstract Acrylic/Board for Auction at 888 Auctions on Jan 31, 2019

Cy Twombly Signed American Abstract Acrylic/Board – January 31, 2019

Acrylic on board, framed. Featuring abstract composition. Signed Cy Twombly on the lower right corner, verso. Accompanied by a certificate. 23.8 x 24 in. (60.5 x 61 cm). PROVENANCE: Edmonton, AB (2015)

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Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was a seminal American artist who came of age immediately following the Abstract Expressionist generation. His iconic large-scale paintings consisted of looping marks scribbled and smeared on raw canvas or linen.

Twombly’s practice melded his interest in Roman and Greek mythological stories, including Leda and the Swan, with the frenetic doodling of chalk on a blackboard. “My line is childlike but not childish. It is very difficult to fake,” he once explained. “To get that quality you need to project yourself into the child’s line. It has to be felt.” Born Edwin Parker

Twombly Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, VA, he went on to attend the Art Students League of New York where he met Robert Rauschenberg. It was Rauschenberg who recommended that he enrol at the Black Mountain College. While at the college, Twombly studied under Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, who introduced him to the work of Paul Klee.

From 1960 onward, the artist spent the majority of his time between Rome and the medieval port city of Gaeta, where he steeped himself in thoughts of the Mediterranean Sea and ancient naval battles that had taken place there.

He died on July 5, 2011, in Rome, Italy. In 2016, the Centre Georges Pompidou held a major exhibition on the Twombly, which included an assortment of 140 works ranging from sculptures and drawings to paintings and photographs.

Today, the artist’s works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Courtauld Institute in London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which in 1989 devoted an entire room to his 10-painting suite Fifty Days at Iliam (1978).

Auction Overview

Richmond Hill, ON – 393 fresh to market items will be available to the discerning buyers and collectors in 888 Auctions’ January 17th auction featuring the finest in MODERN PAINTINGS, JEWELRY & ASIAN ANTIQUES 2019-01-31. Taking place in the afternoon at 2 PM (EST), bidders will be competing against one another over a variety of items on display.