Cy Twombly: Paintings and Drawings 1954–1977
This poster featuring the work on paper Untitled (1971–73) was produced in 1979, in conjunction with the exhibition Cy Twombly: Paintings and Drawings 1954–1977 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. This important retrospective, which was also the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the city, revealed his mastery of an energetic gestural vocabulary and traced the influence of classical Roman culture on his work. The work reproduced is a collage combining an engraving of a tulip, transparent graph paper, ink calibration charts, adhesive tape, and staples, with annotations in pencil, ink, and wax crayon. Deconstructing the operation of Twombly’s work in the exhibition catalogue, Roland Barthes writes: “what happens is a fact (pragma), a coincidence (tyché), an outcome (telos), a surprise (apodeston) and an action (drama).”
Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Year: 1979
Dimensions: Unframed: 31 × 21 3/4 inches (78.7 × 55.2 cm); Framed: 33 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (80 × 62.2 × 3.8 cm)
Framed: Sold framed
