Celebrating Cy Twombly's 80th Birthday
Famed Abstract Expressionist Cy Twombly's 80th birthday is being celebrated with a major new touring retrospective. It just opened at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which notes that he is "one of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century's most influential artists."To coincide with these events D.A.P. has published a comprehensive overview of Twombly's work titled Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons, a must-have for any serious connoisseur of contemporary art. Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening Sotheby's will auction off an important Twombly work, 1986's two-part Untitled, estimated at $4 - $6 million. We expect his work will prove recession-proof.
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Photo Tim Nov 10th 2008 9:30PM
My God, Cy Twombly on Luxist. Your street cred just went through the roof.
just me Nov 11th 2008 11:34AM
Recession proof? I'm not so sure. Some of his canvases have very little paint on them and are close to being a case of the emperor has no clothes--I think one day soon he and artists like Agnes Martin are going to depreciate quickly and irrevocably.
JPS Nov 11th 2008 11:36AM
I couldn't say re: Agnes Martin, but I should think Twombly will weather the storm better than flash-in-the-pan types like Murakami. I guess we'll find out when the auction results are in.
conor sweeney Dec 2nd 2008 8:59AM
I am currently doing a project on cy twombly and I am not quite sure if he is still alive? Is he?
JPS Dec 2nd 2008 8:59AM
Yes he is.
janet langman Jan 2nd 2009 11:39AM
this is not art although you have to hand it to him for sheer audacity to present such rubbish as such. I went to the Guggenheim in Bilbao and saw this exhibition and wanted to ask for my money back. The sculpture is pathetic and the paintings are worse. Cy Twombly's products are the art version of 'the King's new clothes'.