Untitled, New York, Cy Twombly, 1953
Cy TwomblyEstados Unidos, 1928–2011

Untitled, New York

1953 · Sculpture

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Untitled is among Cy Twombly’s best-known and earliest sculptures. Once painted stark white, it is now evocatively weathered. The work presents a fence-like array of wooden spoon handles and other shafts of wood that were wrapped together with bands of cloth and mounted on a miniature stepped platform. It can be variously read—either separately or simultaneously—as depicting a powerful “fetish” object, a set of mute panpipes, or an unidentified archaeological fragment.

Twombly made this assemblage in New York City after formative travels in both Italy and North Africa; fellow artist Robert Rauschenberg, who had traveled with him, kept the work in his personal collection for more than fivedecades.

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2015.138

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En la vida de Cy Twombly

La vida entera
  1. 1950–1951 · Formación

    Art Students League of New York

  2. 1950–1951

    Meets Robert Rauschenberg

    On a tuition scholarship at the Art Students League of New York, Twombly meets Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he is briefly romantically involved. Rauschenberg encourages him to attend Black Mountain College.

  3. 1951

    First solo exhibition at the Kootz Gallery

    Robert Motherwell helps arrange Twombly’s first solo exhibition, which is organized by the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in New York; his work at this time shows the influence of Franz Kline’s black-and-white gestural expressionism and of Paul Klee’s imagery.

  4. 1951–1952 · Formación

    Black Mountain College

  5. 1951–1952

    Black Mountain: meeting Cage and Olson

    At Black Mountain College near Asheville, Twombly studies with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn and meets John Cage; the poet Charles Olson, the college’s rector, has a great influence on him.

  6. 1952

    Travels to North Africa and Europe with Rauschenberg

    A grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts enables Twombly to travel to North Africa, Spain, Italy and France; Robert Rauschenberg accompanies him on the journey.

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