Roland Barthes

Simon Schama

Cy Twombly

Fifty Years Of Works On Paper

Sally Mann

Achim Hochdörfer

In tribute to the late Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery is proud to present his last paintings and one hundred of his photographs, ranging from early studio impressions from the 1950s to a group of landscape subjects that he took in St Barths last year. Since 2008, major exhibitions of Twombly's intimate photographs have been held at FOAM Amsterdam, Museum Brandhorst, Munich and the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; however this is the first time that the lesser known aspect of his oeuvre has been presented in such depth in the U.S. The eight untitled paintings are closely related to the Camino Real group that inaugurated Gagosian Paris in 2010. The inimitable, exuberant paintwork and bold, intense colors typify the freedom with which Twombly worked, never restricted to a single reference. Even in the face of his impending death, their elegiac power, vivid palette, and ardent gestures pulse with the energies of the new.--from Press Release.

The Last Paintings

"Cy Twombly's work realizes its most personal expression in his intimately sized drawings and paintings on paper. Finding inspiration as much in the forces of nature as in ancient epics and legend, and using the simplest of media - pencils, ballpoint pens, crayons, wall paint - he creates poetic and archaic worlds, usually in series and often as collages." "The eighty-four works in this retrospective, organized by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, in 2003 to mark Twombly's seventy-fifth birthday, were collected from the artist's studio, and many have not been previously exhibited. Dating from between 1953 and 2002, the drawings embrace the entire career of one of the most important American artists alive today, from his early monotypes to the major mythological cycles of later years, revealing the many nuances of his aesthetic approach."--BOOK JACKET.

Fifty Years of Works on Paper

Inverleith House

Botanical themes are rare in the earlier paintings of Cy Twombly, but here they blossom in recent plaster and bronze sculptures, large works on paper, and photographs of tulips, peonies and a polychrome sculpture. Exhibited in the serendipitous context of a great botanical garden and library, Twombly's ever more colorful work moves the senses to bloom.

Description: Lepanto, Cy Twombly's ravishing suite of 12 large canvases in acrylic, crayon, and graphite, may be the artist's most satisfactory work. First exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the summer of 2001, the series depicts the famous 16th century sea battle raged by the combined European forces under Venetian leadership against the Ottoman invasion. Twombly's glorious, luminously intense sequence of panels is meant to be absorbed as a single image, a panoramic portrayal of war on a heroic scale, with the viewer standing in the midst of a battle that ends in the destruction of the Turkish fleet.

A Painting in Twelve Parts

Lepanto

Richard Shiff

Nicholas Cullinan

Tacita Dean

Mostra, Roma, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, 5 marzo - 24 maggio 2009

Whitney Museum of American Art, April 10-June 10, 1979

Cy Twombly, Paintings and Drawings, 1954-1977

Cy Twombly

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