CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011) / RARE American Abstract Expressionist- Minimalist painting on board.Size of the works with the frame is 39 x 32 Inches and without the frame 32 x 26 Inches .In excellent condition with only minor aging.The work is signed and dated :Cy Twombly" 1971. There are several more signatures written on a piece of paper and attached to verso.The artist eperimented with a chalkboard effects called "The Blackboard series" executed during 1960's and early 1970's.

Edwin Parker (Cy) Twombly Jr. April 25, 1928 - July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat.His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward (romantic symbolism, and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted poets such as Stephane Mallarme, Rainer Maria Rilke and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories, in his works. Examples of this are his Apollo and The Artist and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "VIRGIL".Twombly's works are in the permanent collections of modern art museums globally, including the Menil Collection in Houston, the Tate Modern in London, New York's Museum of Modern Art and Munich's Museum Brandhorst. He was commissioned for a ceiling at the Museum du Louvre in Paris. In a 1994 retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe described Twombly's work as (influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well.) Signed on the verso.Provenance: Private collection purchase.If you would like to receive more information about certification that this piece or any other might have you are more than welcome to contact us directly or trough Live Auctioneers.

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