Mixed media . Pencil, wax crayon, and ballpoint pen on paper. Signed and dated in the lower right. 70 x 99.7 cm. , the full sheet.
Created in 1964 as part of the series of drawings “Notes from a Tower”, which Cy Twombly produced during a summer stay at Castel Gardena in South Tyrol. [JS].
- Poetic, sensual, enigmatic—Twombly’s intellectual condensations from the 1960s are considered a pinnacle of American Postwar Art. - Early, iconic work group: radical fusion of text and image. - Impressive, large format. - Distinctive and immediate: works on paper of comparable quality are extremely rare on the international auction market. - Part of a significant private collection in southern Germany for fifty years. - Drawings from this important creative phase are in renowned collections like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York.

Possibly: Cy Twombly. *Notes from a Tower / The Artist in Northern Climate*, Galerie Friedrich + Dahlem, Munich 1964 (cf. the closely related composition documented as on display here, *Del Roscio*, Vol. 4, CR no. 59, illustrated)

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich. Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1976)

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