Untitled Artist: Cy Twombly (American, 1928–2011)

1967

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium

Oil and wax crayon on canvas

Dimensions

200.7 × 264.2 cm (79 × 104 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935

Accession Number

1995.32.13

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, 10/5/67
Bibliography

  • Jennifer Farrell et al., Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 296–97, fig. 1.
  • Joachim Pissarro, Then and Now and Later: Art since 1945 at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 37.
  • Fortissimo!: Thirty years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of contemporary art, exh. cat. (Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1985), 84, 148, no. 156, ill.
  • Richard Brown Baker Collects!: A selection of contemporary art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1975), 11, 128–129, no. 56, fig. 56.
  • A Selection of American and European Paintings from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973), no. 76.
  • Robert Pincus-Witten, ed., Cy Twombly: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Center, 1968), no. 10.

Object copyright
The Cy Twombly Foundation
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