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Primary Structures: The Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Cy Twombly

By the Ionian Sea

Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011


By the Ionian Sea

titled (upper element); signed and numbered 6/6 (on the base)

oil and crayon on bronze

34.6 by 57.8 by 49.2 cm. 13⅝ by 22¾ by 19⅜ in.

Executed in 1988, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6.

Thomas Ammann Replica Handbags , Zurich

Acquired from the above in 2002 by Ralph I. Goldenberg

Venice, Italian Pavilion, XLIII Esposizione. Internazionale D’arte. La Biennale di Venezia, June - September 1988, no. 4, p. 115 (another example exhibited)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Cy Twombly: Ten Sculptures, November - December 1997, no. 7, pp. 46-47, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Cy Twombly, Sensation of the Moment, June - October 2009 (another example exhibited)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cy Twombly: Sculpture, May 2011 - January 2012 (another example exhibited)

Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings, June - October 2012, no. 37, p. 151, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

New York, Lévy Gorvy, Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly, September - November 2013, pp. 144-45, illustrated in colour (detail), p. 147, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Long Run, November 2017 - May 2019 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum; and Boston, Museum of Replica Handbags s, Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, August 2022 - May 2023, no. 6, n.p. (another example exhibited)

Nicola del Roscio, ed., Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, Volume I, 1946-1997, Mosel 1997, no. 96, pp. 210-11, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Donald Kuspit, “Review: Cy Twombly at Gagosian Gallery,” Artforum, March 1998, p. 96, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Anne Sherwood Pundyk, “Cy Twombly: Sculpture,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2011 (text)

Mayer Rus, “A Frank Gehry-Designed Brentwood Estate with a Museum-Worthy Art Collection,” Architectural Digest, April 2017 (online) (another example exhibited)