Bilbao

Celebrating Cy Twombly's 80th Birthday

Filed under: Art

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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