Untitled, Lexington

1948

Cy Twombly
American, 1928–2011

Status: On View, Gallery 398
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Cy Twombly
Title: Untitled, Lexington
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1948
Medium: Wood, porcelain and metal knobs, cloth, and house paint
Dimensions: 35.7 × 26.7 × 30.5 cm (14 1/8 × 10 1/2 × 12 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation
Reference Number: 2022.1825
Copyright: © Cy Twombly Foundation

Kirk Varnedo, Cy Twombly: a Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994), 12, 66, cat. 2 (ill.).
Nicola Del Roscio, ed. and Arthur C. Danto, Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, Volume I, 1946–1997 (Munich: Schirmer Mosel, 1997), 36, cat. 8 (color ill.), 37, (color ill.).
Dr. Katharina Schmidt, Katharina, Cy Twombly: Die Skulptur/The Sculpture, exh. cat. (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz; New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the US by D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2000), 16, 19, cat. 2 (color ill.), 21, 23, 198.
Achim Hochdörfer, Cy Twombly: Das Skulpturale Werk, (Klagenfurt, AT: Ritter, 2001), 16, 17, fig. 5 (ill.).
Kate Nesin, Cy Twombly’s things (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 13, 32, fig. 10, (color ill.), 37–39, 40, fig. 11 (color ill.) 50, 53–54, 58, 59, fig. 14 (ill.), 62, 85, 159, 174.

Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Cy Twombly: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions, 1951-1974, Mar. 15-Apr. 27. cat. ?????; San Francisco Museum of Art, May 9-June 22, 1975.
Naples, Galleria Lucio Amelio, Cy Twombly: 11 Sculpture, May 25, 1979–July, no cat.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Cy Twombly: A Retrospective, Sept. 21, 1994–Jan. 10, 1995. cat. 2; Houston, The Menil Collection, Feb. 12–Mar. 19, 1995; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Apr. 9–Jun. 11, 1995; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, as Cy Twombly: Retrospektive, Aug. 31–Nov. 19, 1995.
Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Cy Twombly: Die Skulptur, Apr. 15–Jul. 30, 2000, cat. 2; Houston, The Menil Collection, as Cy Twombly: The Sculpture Sept. 20, 2000–Jan. 7, 2001; Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Modern Art, May 6–Jul 29, 2001.

The artist; the Cy Twombly Foundation, New York and Rome; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 31, 2022.

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