Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves, depicting Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (I)
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Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves

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This poster featuring Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (I) (2009) was produced in 2009, in conjunction with Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves at Gagosian, Athens. This exhibition inaugurated the Athens gallery and featured a group of four canvases inspired by a quote from the seventh-century-BCE choral lyric poet Alkman. Twombly’s abbreviation of the original line announces the departure from Paphos, a city sacred to the goddess Aphrodite. The recurring boat ideograph in Twombly’s work is a figure for passage and exile, voyaging and homecoming, death and imperial decline.

Publisher: Gagosian
Year: 2009
Dimensions: 39 × 27 1/2 inches (99.1 × 69.9 cm)
Framed: Sold unframed

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