84 × 58 (213.4 × 147.3 cm)

Richard Aldrich. Art and Language II. 2014

理查德·奥尔德里奇。艺术与语言II。2014-

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托姆布雷-

Cy Twombly * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome)
Untitled, 1963/1964, signed Cy Twombly, colored pencil, wax crayon on paper, 86 x 67 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Private Collection, 德国y
Kunsthaus Lempertz, 3 December 2016, lot 450 - acquired there by the present owner

Literature:
Nicola Del Roscio, Cy Twombly, drawings, catalogue raisonné, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Ed.), Munich 2011, vol. 4, no. 20

Cy Twombly occupies a unique position among US artists. Twombly lived and worked in Italy, far from the 美国 art world, and felt free to experiment. In Rome, Twombly refined his distinctive artistic language. Twombly\'s visual language is informed by classical literature, ancient history, poetry and mythology, as well as his own life experience. Since the 1950s, Twombly\'s drawings have been dominated by rhythmically repeated line progressions, swirls, dense tangles and isolated numbers. Pencil, coloured pens and ballpoint pens enabled Twombly to make this \'scriptural\' drawing, which ultimately includes the signature of the artist himself. On the white of the paper, the pictorial elements provoke by appearing as scribbles, appearing as if randomly distributed on the surface.

The untitled work offered here is a vivid example of Twombly\'s unique pictorial language. The pictorial elements merge into an abstract composition that is both delicate and dynamic. The work was created in Italy between 1963-64. Twombly lived in a 17th-century palazzo on Via di Monserrato in Rome at the time the work was created. Untitled is emblematic of the groundbreaking work Twombly produced in the 1960s, widely regarded as a critical and highly fruitful period in his long and illustrious career.

“Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don’t like oil because you can’t get back into it, or you make a mess. It’s not my favourite thing... pencil is more my medium than wet paint.”
Cy Twombly

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RUSSIAN ART JOURNAL.:Zhar-Ptitsa/Jar-Ptitza [The Firebird]. Paris and Berlin: Russkoe Iskusstvo, August 1921-January 1926. 14 issues in 13 volumes (No. 4/5 double issue). 4to (315 x 240 mm). Illustrated in color and black and white, with many plates tipped in. Original color lithographed wrappers. Some issues missing spines with pages detached; internal tears and some loss.

A COMPLETE SET OF THE RARE RUSSIAN EMIGRE LITERARY ART MAGAZINE IN ORIGINAL ISSUES, reportedly no more than 300 copies were printed. Supplemental summaries of the numbers were provided in the back in a variety of languages including English. Zhar-ptitsa was the most influential art journal of the flourishing community of exiles who were feverishly trying to keep the culture of Old Russia alive. Due to paper shortages and extensive censorship by the Bolsheviks back in the USSR, the Russian book business was booming in Germany and France. This lavish periodical was the natural successor to S. Diaghilev\'s Mir iskusstva since many of those involved had been members of the World of Art Group and designers for the Ballets Russes. The rich selection subjects and contributors under A. E. Kogan\'s art department embraced L. Bakst, A. Benois, I. Bilibin, M. Chagall, S. Chekhonin, N. Goncharova, B. Grigoriev, B. Kustodiev, M. Larionov, V. Shukaev, K. Somov, S. Sudeikin and many other important artists. Poet Sasha Cherny was literary editor; and such important writers as L. Andreev, K. Balmont, I. Bunin, V. Khodasevich, B. Pilnyak, A. Remizov, N. Teffi, A.N. Tolstoi, B. Zaitsev, and the young Vladimir Nabokov (as \"V. Sirin\") appeared in its pages. Fekula called Zhar-ptitsa \"perhaps the most famous of post-revolutionary art journals, whose contributors threw new light on the development of Russian art at the beginning of the twentieth century.\" According to Vengerov, \"Even separate issues of the magazine, let alone complete sets of its issues, are a great bibliographic rarity.\" Fekula 5742; Vengerov Staraya russkaya kniga 105.

俄罗斯艺术杂志。 Zhar Ptitsa/Jar Ptitsa[火鸟]。巴黎和柏林：Russkoe Iskustvo，1921年8月至1926年1月。