« The Ceiling » (Le Plafond)
Can I see it?
Yes, on view now
Where is “« The Ceiling » (Le Plafond)” now? Musée du Louvre, Salle 663, Aile Sully, Niveau 1, Paris. Yes, on view now. Checked September 26, 2026.
Closed· opens at 9:00 AM
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- INV 20903
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée du Louvre
- Image: Musée du Louvre — « The Ceiling » (Le Plafond), Twombly, Edwin Parker Jr. © ADAGP Paris, 2024 © 2010 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Angèle Dequier
In the life of Cy Twombly
The whole life2008
Photographs at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam
Huis Marseille, the museum for photography in Amsterdam, shows a specially curated selection of Twombly’s photographic work; the exhibition is opened by Sally Mann.
June 2008
European retrospective “Cycles and Seasons”
The retrospective Cycles and Seasons opens at Tate Modern in London, Twombly’s first solo retrospective in fifteen years; in 2009 it is shown at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.
2009
“The Natural World” at the Art Institute of Chicago
In conjunction with the opening of the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, the solo exhibition Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007 is held.
2010
His wife, Tatiana Franchetti, dies
Tatiana Franchetti dies; she and Twombly never divorced and remained friends.
29 June 2011
“Twombly and Poussin” at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Less than a week before the artist’s death, the exhibition Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters opens at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, built on his remark that in another time he would have liked to be Poussin; it is the first time his work is shown alongside Poussin’s.
5 July 2011
Died
