Lithograph and aquatint on cream wove paper
Italy, 1984
Cy Twombly (1928-2011) – American Post-Abstract Expressionist
‘Sarajevo’
Signed with artist’s initials in pencil lower right ‘CT.’
Numbered in pencil lower left ‘XL/L’
Printed by Pressing Company, Rome
Published by Visconti Art Spectrum, Vienna
Bastian 76
Full margins with deckled edges; framed, floating in frame
Image dimensions: 29 ½ x 21 ½ in. (73.7 x 54.6 cm.)
Sheet dimensions: 35 x 24 ½ in. (88.9 x 62.2 cm.)
Overall dimensions: 39 x 29 in. (99.1 x 74.7 cm.)
Very good condition

Created for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, this lithograph and aquatint references the ancient origins of the games by using the same characteristic scrawl he had previously used for his 1976 seriesSix Latin Writers and Poets.

Executed in 1984, this lithograph and aquatint on cream wove paper is signed with the artist’s initials and numbered XL from an edition of L. Printed by Pressing Company, Rome, and published by Visconti Art Spectrum, Vienna, the work has full margins with deckled sheet edges and is framed, floating in the frame. The image measures 29 ½ x 21 ½ inches. In overall good condition with no stains, toning, tears or repairs.

Cy Twombly (American, 1928-2011)

A member of the Post-Abstract Expressionist generation, Cy Twombly moved to New York in the early 1950s to attend the Art School League. There he met artist Robert Rauschenberg, who encouraged him to attend the Black Mountain College, then at the height of its influence. Twombly’s early works draw on gestural abstraction, but he quickly developed a personal graffiti-like style, filled with literary references. In 1957, Twombly moved to Italy, becoming famous for his large-scale graffiti paintings which blur the line between drawing and painting. In 1968, the Milwaukee Art Center mounted his first retrospective. In 1995, the Cy Twombly Gallery opened at The Menil Collection, Houston, exhibiting works made by the artist since 1954.

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