Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
Gladings (Love's Infinite Causes). 1973.
Collage. Oil pastel, pencil, and collaged transparent graph paper over offset lithograph.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. Inscribed “(Forth Decade)” in bottom center. 99.9 x 69.7 cm (39.3 x 27.4 in), the full sheet.
As the starting point for the series “Gladings (Love’s Infinite Causes),” Twombly used unnumbered proofs of his print “Untitled” (1973); see Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly. A Catalogue Raisonné of The Printed Graphic Work, Munich/New York 1984, CR numbers 39 and 40. [JS].
• Poetic condensation and enigmatic imagery: a masterful transformation of existential feelings into a symbolic language of condensed signs.
• Love/Rome/Antiquity/Poetry: A mysterious interweaving of biographical, historical, poetic, and philosophical references.
• “Gladings (Love’s Infinite Causes)”: A rare combination of drawing and collage.
• Since 1990, only four other works from the 12-part series have been offered on the international auction market.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Art in Progress, Munich (with a label on the back of the frame).
Southern German Foundation (formerly part of a private collection in Munich, likely acquired from the above around 1974).
LITERATURE: Nicola del Roscio, Cy Twombly. Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 6: 1972–1979, New York 2016, p. 62, CR no. 53 (with ill.).
Yvon Lambert, Cy Twombly. Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper, vol. VI, 1973–1976, Milan 1979, p. 38, CR no. 15 (with ill. on p. 36).
"Cy Twombly benefitted from the fact that he lived on both shores of the Atlantic and, in particular, on the Mediterranean. That made him not only an American or European artist but bestowed upon him one of the rarest gifts: the possibility to continuously renew his art in a creative way up until the end of his life."
Nicola del Roscio, quoted from: Cy Twombly. Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 6, p. 10.
Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
Gladings (Love's Infinite Causes). 1973.
Collage. Oil pastel, pencil, and collaged transparent graph paper over offset lithograph.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. Inscribed “(Forth Decade)” in bottom center. 99.9 x 69.7 cm (39.3 x 27.4 in), the full sheet.
As the starting point for the series “Gladings (Love’s Infinite Causes),” Twombly used unnumbered proofs of his print “Untitled” (1973); see Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly. A Catalogue Raisonné of The Printed Graphic Work, Munich/New York 1984, CR numbers 39 and 40. [JS].
• Poetic condensation and enigmatic imagery: a masterful transformation of existential feelings into a symbolic language of condensed signs.
• Love/Rome/Antiquity/Poetry: A mysterious interweaving of biographical, historical, poetic, and philosophical references.
• “Gladings (Love’s Infinite Causes)”: A rare combination of drawing and collage.
• Since 1990, only four other works from the 12-part series have been offered on the international auction market.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Art in Progress, Munich (with a label on the back of the frame).
Southern German Foundation (formerly part of a private collection in Munich, likely acquired from the above around 1974).
LITERATURE: Nicola del Roscio, Cy Twombly. Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 6: 1972–1979, New York 2016, p. 62, CR no. 53 (with ill.).
Yvon Lambert, Cy Twombly. Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper, vol. VI, 1973–1976, Milan 1979, p. 38, CR no. 15 (with ill. on p. 36).
"Cy Twombly benefitted from the fact that he lived on both shores of the Atlantic and, in particular, on the Mediterranean. That made him not only an American or European artist but bestowed upon him one of the rarest gifts: the possibility to continuously renew his art in a creative way up until the end of his life."
Nicola del Roscio, quoted from: Cy Twombly. Drawings. Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 6, p. 10.
