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Property from Jacqueline Bisset

Cy Twombly

Notes from a Tower

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from Jacqueline Bisset

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


Notes from a Tower

signed and dated 1964 (in the center)

graphite, colored pencil, wax crayon and ballpoint pen on paper

27 ¼ by 39 ⅜ in.

69.2 by 100 cm.

Executed in 1964.

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

Jim Jacobs, New York

Keith Barish, Los Angeles

Gagosian, New York

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

Pace Wildenstein, New York

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Private Collection

Acquired as a gift of the above in 1994 by the present owner 

Nicola Del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly Drawings, Catalogue Raisonné Volume 4: 1964-1969, Munich, 2014, no. 48, p. 55, illustrated in color

Munich, Galerie Friedrich + Dahlem, Cy Twombly. Notes from a Tower / The Artist in the Northern Climate, 1964, n.p., illustrated