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Cy Twombly
Natural History Part I - Mushrooms (Nr. II), 1974
Collage
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184
Cy Twombly
Natural History Part I - Mushrooms (Nr. II), 1974
Collage
Starting bid:
€ 5,500
Estimate:
€ 6,000 - 8,000
End: 04-15-26 16:31:00 Berlin
04-15-26 10:31:00 New York
04-15-26 07:31:00 Los Angeles (30 days, 17h:17m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 84,93 €,
within the EU countries 156,27 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


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Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011
Natural History Part I - Mushrooms (Nr. II). 1974.
Collage with heliotype, photochromic print and collage with color pen.
Bastian 43. Monogrammed and numbered, with the embossed Roman sheet number and the copyright note. From an edition of 98 copies. On Rives wove paper (without the watermark). 75.8 x 55.8 cm (29.8 x 21.9 in), size of sheet.
Printed by Matthieu Studio, Zürich-Dielsdorf (with the blindstamp) and published by Heiner Bastian and Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. [EH].
• Particularly appealing print with a unique character.
• The portfolio “Natural History Part I” is one of Cy Twombly's most important graphic works.
• Participation in documenta 6 and 7 in 1977 and 1982.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Schleswig-Holstein
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired by the above from Ketterer Kunst in 2015).

LITERATURE: Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly. Das graphische Werk 1953-1984. A catalogue raisonné of the printed graphic work, Munich/New York 1984, CR no. 43.
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Kettererkunst, 429th auction, Post War / Contemporary Art, lot 534, illustrated.

In good condition. Slightly browned in the outer edges of the sheet.