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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 https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-10
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Hero and Leandro (A Painting in Four Parts) Part III https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/hero-and-leandro-a-painting-in-four-parts-part-iii
Hero and Leandro (A Painting in Four Parts) Part III
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Untitled, (Peony Blossom Painting) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-peony-blossom-painting
Untitled, (Peony Blossom Painting)
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 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
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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No. IV http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-no-iv-p07576
Purchased 1981
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Tacitus from the portfolio Six Latin Writers and Poets http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72321
Gift of Arthur Stanton
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/205273
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift (by exchange). Given in honor of Kathy Fuld
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Apollodoro from the portfolio Six Latin Writers and Poets http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72324
Gift of Arthur Stanton
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63630
Elinor and Edmund Grasheim Annual Fund
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Min-Oe https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/min-oe
Min-Oe
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Zyig https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/zyig
Zyig
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Lepanto, Part XI https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/lepanto-panel-11
Lepanto, Part XI
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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III Notes From Salalah (Note I) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/iii-notes-from-salalah-note-i-2007
III Notes From Salalah (Note I)
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 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
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-2
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Leda and the Swan http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80083
Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest and The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection (both by exchange)
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Untitled (Peonias series) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/untitled-peonias-series
Untitled (Peonias series)
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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III Notes from Salalah, (Note II) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/iii-notes-from-salalah-note-ii
III Notes from Salalah, (Note II)
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Camino Real (IV) https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/camino-real-iv
Camino Real (IV)
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Quattro Stagioni II. Primavera https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/quattro-stagioni-primavera-1995
Quattro Stagioni II. Primavera
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Cold Stream https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/cold-stream
Cold Stream
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Lepanto, Part III https://www.wikiart.org/en/cy-twombly/lepanto-panel-3
Lepanto, Part III
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Quattro Stagioni: Autunno http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-quattro-stagioni-autunno-t07889
Purchased with assistance from the American Fund for the Tate Gallery and Tate Members 2002
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM