Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly’s highly celebrated large-scale paintings incorporate abstract, expressive ingredients, including his signature scrawled and scribbled lines, cheeky representational elements, such as penises, and textual components, e.g. passages from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. The artist was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Students League of New York, and Black Mountain College, North Carolin, among other places. In 1957, Twombly moved to Italy, where he lived until his death in 2011. During his lifetime, the artist was awarded the Golden Lion at the 49th Venice Biennale and a Légion d’Honneur by the French government. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a permanent installation of his 10-part suite Fifty Days at Iliam, 1978, based on The Iliad. Many other institutions hold Twombly’s important work in their collections, including The Menil Collection, Houston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Modern, London.
Selected Works
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"Audible Presence" Echoes At Dominique Lévy
March 22, 2017
Dominique Lévy brings together the romantic abstractions of Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, and Cy Twombly with "Audible Presence."
Exhibitions
Cy Twombly
Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties
New York
January 27 - March 26, 2016
Cy TwomblyAudible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly
New York
September 18 - November 16, 2013
Cy TwomblyPaintings & Drawings
New York
July 7 - September 9, 2008
Cy TwomblyCy Twombly: Selected Works
New York
April 11 - June 2, 2007
Selected Press
T The New York Times Style Magazine | Returning, Again, to American Drawing in the 1960s
January 27, 2016
An installation view of “Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties.” …
Kunstzeitung | Konkurrenz oder willkommene Ergänzung?
January 31, 2014
Im Dezember feierte die Paul Kasmin Gallery das Jubiläum von Constantin Brancusis erstem Auftritt in …
LA Times | Moving sound to anywhere but the concert hall
December 28, 2013
NEW YORK — This has been the season of the concert hall. The one named after Walt Disney turned 10. …
The New York Times | ‘Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly’
November 1, 2013
A beautiful show of often little-known works by three revered artists, all of whom exaggerated or abused …
The New York Times | Paola Pivi - ‘Ok, you are better than me, so what?’; ‘Audible Presence’
October 17, 2013
There are several ways to describe the frisson between the shows with which Galerie Perrotin, of Paris, …
Blouin Artinfo | “Audible Presence” Echoes At Dominique Lévy
October 14, 2013
For the inaugural exhibition at Dominique Lévy’s new gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the …
Haute Living | Haute Event: Dominique Lévy Celebrates New Gallery
October 7, 2013
Connoisseur, collector, advisor, and gallerist Dominique Lévy is admired internationally as a leading …
The New York Times | Shhh. Silence Being Observed.
October 4, 2013
There’s been a lot of noise about silence lately. Last month, art and music lovers poured into an Upper …
New Yorker | Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly
October 1, 2013
This seductive show, the gallery’s first, borrows its title from Klein’s description of his rarely …
The Daily Beast | Woman as Fancy Slit?
September 26, 2013
This is “Spatial Concept: Portrait of Iris Clert”, painted by Lucio Fontana in 1961 and now on loan …
Art Observerd | New York: “Audible Presence: Fontana Klein Twombly” at Dominique Lévy Through November 16th, 2013
September 26, 2013
Twenty minutes of continuous, monotone sound, followed by twenty minutes of absolute silence
Purple FR | Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly at Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York
September 23, 2013
Image Gallery
Vogue | Two Art Shows Featuring Works by Paola Pivi, Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, and Cy Twombly
September 20, 2013
“I love bears” Paola Pivi explained on the opening day of her new Galerie Perrotin on Madison and …
The Daily Beast | A Silence Worth 1,000 Pictures
September 19, 2013
This untitled blue monochrome, painted by Yves Klein in 1956, is just a standin for another, unreproducible …
Animal New York | Hear Last Night's Yves Klein Monotone-Silence Symphony Performance
September 19, 2013
Last evening at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, an orchestra and a chorus performed Yves Klein’s …
The New York Times | The Storm Before the Calm: Strange Sounds Emerge From ‘Monotone-Silence Symphony’
September 19, 2013
I thought I heard bagpipes. I thought I heard snippets of Philip Glass’s “1000 Airplanes on the Roof.” …
Observer | ‘This Symphony Does Not Exist’: At Dominique Lévy’s Performance of Yves Klein’s ‘Monotone-Silence’
September 19, 2013
There are many ways to open a new gallery. On Tuesday night, the irrepressible Frenchman Emmanuel Perrotin …
The Styley | Audible Prescence at Dominique Levy
September 18, 2013
Does anyone remember the Rag & Bone outpost on Madison and East 73rd Street? I do, and fondly.
Interview Magazine | An Audible Presence in New York
September 18, 2013
Imagine 20 minutes of a blaring single note, emitted in unison by a symphony and a choir. Imagine it …
DuJour | Yves Klein Uptown Moment
September 18, 2013
When she was just 13 years old, in the late 70s, Swiss born New York gallerist Dominique Levy was given …
SFAQ | Review: “Audible Presence”, Fontana, Klein, Twombly at Dominique Lévy, New York.
September 17, 2013
The glamorous “L” of L&M Arts has just opened the first show of her new eponymous gallery Dominique …
whitewall | Top Exhibitions Opening This Week
September 17, 2013
Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly: “Audible Presence” at Dominique Lévy Gallery September 18 …
The New York Times | A Sound, Then Silence
September 17, 2013
The sound, a D major chord produced by an orchestra and a chorus, begins abruptly, full force, and fills …
Departures Magazine | Two New York Gallery Shows Not to Miss
September 16, 2013
In 1960 Yves Klein debuted his 40-Minute-Monotone-Symphony, a single toned work conceived 13 years earlier …
Art in America | Dominique Lévy Launches Upper East Side Venue
September 16, 2013
Dealer Dominique Lévy had been searching without success for Upper East Side real estate for her new …
The Village Voice | Art Fall Picks 2013
September 4, 2013
In 1971, L.A. artist Chris Burden spent five days jammed inside a school locker. Later that year, he …
Architectural Digest | Emmanuel Perrotin and Dominique Levy Create Manhattan's Newest Contemporary Art Destination
August 31, 2013
The most anticipated gallery opening of New York’s young fall season is actually a two-for-one.
Artdaily | Dominique Levy to inaugurate new gallery with masterworks by Fontana, Klein, and Twombly
August 5, 2013
Dominique Levy announced her gallery’s new home in New York City and the inaugural exhibition Inaudible …
Bloomberg | Million-Dollar Art Not for Sale by Stella, Twombly
May 9, 2012
The Twombly works are not for sale. Neither art the Frank Stella paintings in the museum-like show conceived …
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