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Cy Twombly

American • 1928-2011

Biography

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.

Insights

Twombly's work was featured in one of the first exhibitions devoted to minimalism, "Black, White and Grey," in 1964.
After growing up in Lexington, Virginia, Twombly served for the U.S. army as a cryptographer before studying at the Museum of Fine Arts.

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Cy Twombly

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Untitled, from The New York Collection for Stockholm (B. 38)
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
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Untitled (B. 28)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $16,380
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Untitled
Estimate $35,000,000 - 45,000,000
Sold for $41,640,000
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Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition poster
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $8,820
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Cy Twombly
Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition poster
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $10,710
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Untitled
Estimate £3,000,000 - 4,000,000
Sold for £2,684,500
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Untitled
Estimate $7,000,000 - 10,000,000
Sold for $8,206,000
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Untitled
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $529,200
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Untitled
Estimate $600,000 - 800,000
Sold for $786,250
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Portrait of Alvise di Robilant
Estimate £500,000 - 700,000
Sold for £510,300
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Five Greek Poets and a Philosopher
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $37,500
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Untitled
Estimate $2,500,000 - 3,500,000
Sold for $3,740,000
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Untitled
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
Sold for $350,000
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Untitled
Estimate $4,000,000 - 6,000,000
Sold for $4,700,000
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Untitled
Estimate £300,000 - 500,000
Sold for £495,000
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Five Greek Poets and a Philosopher
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
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Dithyrambus
Estimate £450,000 - 650,000
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Sperlonga drawing
Estimate £350,000 - 550,000
Sold for £1,149,000
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Untitled
Estimate £300,000 - 400,000
Sold for £489,000
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Untitled (Ramifications)
Estimate $800,000 - 1,200,000
Sold for $1,455,000
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Natural History Part I Mushrooms: No. IV
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $18,750
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Natural History Part I Mushrooms: No. VII
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $8,125
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Natural History Part I Mushrooms: No. X
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $8,125
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Natural History Part I Mushrooms: No. VIII
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $7,500
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Untitled
Estimate £500,000 - 700,000
Sold for £609,000
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