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Untitled [Bolsena] by Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Untitled [Bolsena], 1969

Oil-based house paint, wax crayon, graphite and felt-tip pen on canvas
199.4 x 240 cm (78.5 x 94.5 in)
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (07 Oct 2020)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Oct 7, 2020
Christie'sNew York20th Century Evening Sale16
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Untitled [Bolsena]
May 6, 1992
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Part I33
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Untitled [Bolsena]
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

199.4 x 240 cm (78.5 x 94.5 in)

Materials

oil-based house paint, wax crayon, graphite and felt-tip pen on canvas

Provenance

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne

Anon. sale; Sotheby & Co., London, 3 April 1974, lot 50

The Mayor Gallery, London

Saatchi Collection, London

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 1992, lot 33

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992

Exhibited

London, The Mayor Gallery, Cy Twombly: Paintings and Drawings 1959-1976, March-April 1980.

London, The Saatchi Collection, Donald Judd, Brice Marden, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, January 1985.

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-86, December 1986-January 1988.

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cy Twombly Bolsena, December 1989-January 1990, no. 4 (illustrated).

London, Tate Modern; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons, June 2008-May 2009, p. 117 (illustrated).

Literature

J.C. Ammann, et al., Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. 2, London, 1984, p. 27, no. 65 (illustrated).

H. Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1966-1971, vol. III, Munich, 1994, p. 196, no. 88 (illustrated).

E. Booth-Clibborn, The History of the Saatchi Collection, London, 2011 p. 47 (illustrated).