Nov 12, 2015 · A blackboard covered in white scribbles by the American abstract artist Cy Twombly has fetched a record $70.5 million (£47 million) at auction at Sotheby’s last night.
Feb 13, 2015 · The untitled Twombly work is believed to date from 1970 and sold in 2012 for $17.4 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The piece is one of Twombly’s “blackboard” creations, called that for...
Oct 22, 2014 · The work was created in 1970, the pice of art is, Untitled, and was made of white wax crayon lines against a grey background, executed in four rows of by Twombly in an energetically scribbled fashion, the work is expected to bring between £21 to £34 million. A particular lyricism developed in the artist’s ‘Blackboard paintings’.
Nov 16, 2015 · Cy Twombly, Untitled (1970). Courtesy Christie's. An untitled "blackboard" work by Cy Twombly sold for a record-setting $70.5 million at Sotheby's on Wednesday, leading the way to a $295 million total at the auction house's sale of contemporary and post-war art.
Oct 09, 2014 · Christie’s to Sell Twombly ‘BlackBoard’ with $35m Est. October 9, 2014 by Marion Maneker. Christie’s announces a Twombly blackboard painting straight from the artist through his former assitant: The seller of Twombly’s untitled work is Nicola Del Roscio, the artist’s former assistant and archivist. Mr.
Cy Twombly Untitled 1970. Twombly is a key member of the generation of American artists immediately following the Abstract Expressionists. Between 1967 and 1971 he produced a number of works on gray grounds.
In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being identified by MoMA staff.
More ... Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957.
Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia, on April 25, 1928. Twombly's father, also nicknamed "Cy", pitched for the Chicago White Sox. They were both nicknamed after the baseball great Cy Young who pitched for, among others, the Cardinals, Red Sox, Indians, and Braves.
Rauschenberg encouraged him to attend Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. At Black Mountain in 1951 and 1952 he studied with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn, and met John Cage. The poet and rector of the College Charles Olson had a great influence on him.