LOT DETAILS

Materials:

graphite on cardboard

Measurements:

26.62 in. (67.61 cm.) (height) by 34.00 in. (86.36 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Art,. Cy Twombly Paintings, Drawings, Constructions 1951-1974 , March - June 1975, p. 48. New York, Nahmad Contemporary,. Poetics of the Gesture: Schiele, Twombly, Basquiat , May - June 2014, pp. 104-105 and 128, illustrated in color

Literature:

Suzanne Delehanty, "The Alchemy of Mind and Hand,". Arts in Virginia , Vol. 18, No. I, 1977, fig. II, p. 27, illustrated. Nicola del Roscio, . Cy Twombly Drawings: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, 1964-1969, Munich 2014, cat. no. 180, p. 154, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Collection of Malcolm Goldstein, New York. Christie's, New York, 16 February 1984, Lot 1973. Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, New York. Private Collection, Switzerland. Sotheby's, Paris, 3 December 2013, Lot 14. Acquired from the above sale by the present owner