Untitled Plate #3 by Cy Twombly, 1974

 

  • Artist: Cy Twombly 
  • title: “Untitled” plate # 3 
  • portfolio: Natural History Part 1  
  • medium: lithograph, collotype & drawing  on Rives paper 
  • edition size: 98 + 17 AP’s +1 PP
  • sheet size: 29” x 22” inches 
  • year: 1974 
  • Hand-signed and numbered 
  • Sold

Description

“Untitled, Plate # 3” by Cy Twombly – From the 10 piece suite portfolio titled, “Natural History Part 1.” 

Annotation

“Untitled, Plate # 3” by Cy Twombly – From the portfolio titled, “Natural History Part 1.” The 10 piece suite was published in 1974.  Untitled, plate #9 is from an edition of 98 + 17 AP’s and 1 printer’s proof. The artwork is a combination of lithograph, collage, and drawing. This lithograph has a nice clean surface and has been stored in an architectural flat-file drawer in a smoke-free adult environment.  All of our prints are kept in tissue and/or plastic sleeves and mailed flat to ensure safe travels. Expect minor wear consistent with history and age.

About Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly emerged in the 1950s, developing a characteristic painting style of expressive drips and active, scribbled, and scratched lines. “My line is childlike but not childish,” he once said. “It is very difficult to fake…to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child’s line. It has to be felt.” Early influences included Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell, but more formative would be his relationships with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, along with whom he would distance himself from the dominance of Abstract Expressionism. Twombly’s work also appeared in one of the first exhibitions to explore ideas of Minimalism—“Black, White, and Grey ” (1964)—along with Agnes Martin, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. [Upsilon Gallery, London]

Museum Collections (several) 

  • Musée du Louvre, Paris 
  • MOMA, NYC 
  • Tate Gallery, London
  • Guggenheim NY National Gallery of Art, DC