Cy Twombly: Drawings – Catalogue Raisonné Vol. 5 1970-1971
Nicola Del Roscio
Gagosian Gallery & Schirmer/Mosel, 2015
€165,00
The years 1970–71 were a very prolific period in which Cy Twombly, influenced by Leonardo da Vinci’s Deluge drawings, created his iconic style: scribbled, calligraphic, and graffiti-like works on solid fields. In the late Kirk Varnedoe’s words, this – most minimal – phase of Twombly’s œuvre is characterized by a “nervous, obsessed energy, yet its trance- like mono – tony also opens out into a sense of serene, oceanic dissolution, in a nebular cloud of great depth and in- finite complexity”. His drawings of this phase featured in Vol. V of his Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings include, among others, acclaimed extensive series such as Roman Notes, Study for Treatise on the Veil, and Beyond (A System of Passing.)
ISBN: 9783829604895
