American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)
For his father, see Cy Twombly (baseball).
Cy Twombly
Twombly in his studio
Born
Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
(1928-04-25)April 25, 1928
Lexington, Virginia, U.S.
Died
July 5, 2011(2011-07-05) (aged 83)
Rome, Italy
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Washington and Lee University
Art Students League
Black Mountain College
Known for
Painting, sculpture, calligraphy
Spouse
Tatiana Franchetti
(m. 1959; died 2010)
Partner
Nicola Del Roscio (1964–2011)
Children
1
Awards
Praemium Imperiale Legion of Honor
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/saɪˈtwɒmbli/; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011)[1] was an American painter, sculptor and photographer.
Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat.[2][3] 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 Stéphane Mallarmé, 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 Musée du Louvre in Paris.[4]
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."[5]
^The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Times, December 18, 2011, page 64
^Matt Schudel (July 6, 2011), Cy Twombly, influential Va.-born abstract artist, dies at 83 The Washington Post.
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later said he considered the painting the "finest of my fine pictures". CyTwombly completed a painting in Rome in 1985 inspired by the story as told by...
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triggered a lawsuit from the CyTwombly Foundation, even though the painting was left untouched; the Louvre and the CyTwombly Foundation eventually found...
acclaimed exhibitions featuring seminal artists including Georg Baselitz, CyTwombly, David Hockney, Francis Picabia, Lucio Fontana, and more. He founded Artnet...
and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The nearby CyTwombly Gallery, opened in 1995, houses more than thirty of Twombly's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper...
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