Cy Twombly

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Cy Twombly


Born
in Lexington, VA, The United States
April 25, 1928

Died
July 05, 2011

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Edwin Parker (Cy) Twombly, Jr. is an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibits his paintings worldwide.

Average rating: 4.35 · 359 ratings · 37 reviews · 77 distinct worksSimilar authors
Fifty Years of Work on Paper

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4.48 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions
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The Natural World: Selected...

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4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009
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Cy Twombly: Making Past Pre...

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4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cy Twombly: Paintings, Work...

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4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Fifty Years of Works on Pap...

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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003
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Lepanto

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4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002
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Cy Twombly - Photographs Ly...

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Cy Twombly: New Sculptures ...

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Cy Twombly: Works on Paper

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988
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Cy Twombly - the Last Paint...

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
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“I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.”
Cy Twombly

“And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.”
Cy Twombly

“The past is a springboard for me….Ancient things are new things. Everything lives in the moment; that’s the only time it can live, but its influence can go on forever.”
Cy Twombly

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