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Cy Twombly
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Fan account of Cy Twombly, an American painter, sculptor and photographer.
1928-2011
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Untitled, from 8 Odi di Orazio, Series I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59665/
Title page from a portfolio of eight screenprints
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Untitled https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229371/
Cy Twombly is best known for a synthesis of drawing, painting, and writing that balances abstract with suggestively pictorial impulses. His inimitable scribbles and scrawls are at once intuitive and sublime, casual or even crude and refined. Twombly made the dynamic, brooding Untitled as one in a suite of fourteen large-scale paintings during the summer of 1969 while ensconced at Palazzo del Drago on the shores of Lake Bolsena in central Italy. Against a rich, creamy ground, he elaborated on the cascades of planar and tubular shapes that had emerged in his painting the year before, using diagram-like forms to imbue the canvas with a sense of spatiotemporal flow, as well as a certain airiness. On the other hand, the white field—darkened here and there by passages of erasure—also takes on the aspect of a heavily revised mathematical worksheet. Twombly was immersed both in his work and in his particular location, titling these paintings with the place-name Bolsena. But while typically he might find inspiration in the history of his ancient rural retreat, in this case he was as attuned to that summer’s defining moment: the Apollo II moon landing. Such context enhances our reading of the painting’s enigmatic visual language of measurement, drift, and direction. Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Untitled, (Blooming, A Scattering of Blossoms & Other Things) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-blooming-a-scattering-of-blossoms-other-things
Untitled, (Blooming, A Scattering of Blossoms & Other Things)
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-13
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Untitled, New York https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229370/
Untitled is among Cy Twombly’s best-known and earliest sculptures. Once painted stark white, it is now evocatively weathered. The work presents a fence-like array of wooden spoon handles and other shafts of wood that were wrapped together with bands of cloth and mounted on a miniature stepped platform. It can be variously read—either separately or simultaneously—as depicting a powerful “fetish” object, a set of mute panpipes, or an unidentified archaeological fragment. Twombly made this assemblage in New York City after formative travels in both Italy and North Africa; fellow artist Robert Rauschenberg, who had traveled with him, kept the work in his personal collection for more than fivedecades. Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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D from Sketches http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66235
Gift of Celeste Bartos
December 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Six Latin Writers and Poets http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72320
Gift of Arthur Stanton
December 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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School of Athens https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/school-of-athens
School of Athens
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Untitled II http://www.moma.org/collection/works/65860
Gift of Celeste Bartos
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The Rose (III) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/the-rose-iii
The Rose (III)
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Ferragosto V https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/ferragosto-v
Ferragosto V
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Nine Discourses on Commodus, Part II https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/nine-discourses-on-commodus-part-ii
Nine Discourses on Commodus, Part II
December 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-2
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Fifty Days at Iliam. Shades of Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/fifty-days-at-iliam-shades-of-achilles-patroclus-and-hector
Fifty Days at Iliam. Shades of Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector
December 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Quattro Stagioni II. Inverno https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/quattro-stagioni-estate-1995
Quattro Stagioni II. Inverno
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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No. IV http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-no-iv-p07576
Purchased 1981
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Tiznit https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/tiznit
Tiznit
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The First Part of the Return from Parnassus https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186049/
Cy Twombly’s famously inimitable art is tensely balanced between expressively abstract and suggestively pictorial impulses. His work originated under the auspices of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s and advanced uniquely along lines afforded by its freedoms. Twombly’s entire enterprise is characterized by unruly marks—stammering, energetic, and raw—that merge drawing, painting, writing, and symbolic glyphs. Scrawled, overwritten, erased, or willfully misspelled, words cite people, places, events, and stories nominally derived from Greco-Roman culture and history, especially literature, poetry, and myth. Through prior gift of Mary and Leigh Block; Marian and Samuel Klasstorner and Major Acquistions Endowment Income funds; Wirt D. Walker Trust; Estate of Walter Aitken; Director's Fund; Helen A. Regenstein Endowment; Laura T. Magnuson Acquisition Fund
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80085
Gift of the artist
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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The Second Part of the Return from Parnassus https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186050/
Cy Twombly often titled his early 1960s works with florid evocations of art, myth, and allegory. These paintings, for example, refer to Mount Parnassus, the fabled home of Apollo and the Muses, which became known as the center of poetry, music, and learning in ancient Greece. These early paintings mix regular, system-based forms, numbers, and grids together with irregular, nature-based pictograms and suggestive or intuitive references to corporeal processes—sexual and otherwise. These are aspects of a general practice in which Twombly juxtaposes such marks to connote the dualities of mind and body. In their exuberant scale and color, the artist’s works of 1961 also reflect his response to the great architectural spaces of Rome, embracing the city’s grandeur and decadence in its ancient, Baroque, and modern incarnations. Through prior partial gift of the Stenn Family in memory of Marcia Stenn
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/76658
Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Leda and the Swan https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/leda-and-the-swan-1
Leda and the Swan
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Lepanto, Part VI https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/lepanto-panel-6
Lepanto, Part VI
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Quattro stagioni I. Autunno https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/quattro-stagioni-part-iii-autunno-1994
Quattro stagioni I. Autunno
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM