Cy Twombly — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works847

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

MoMA

Previous Sales 227

Christie's

Sotheby's

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Untitled (Rome), 1961

£4,076,000 ($5.4M USD)

Mar 2026

Christie's

Untitled (Rome), 1962

Sotheby's

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Birth of Venus, 1963

Christie's

Christie's

£1,673,500 ($2.2M USD)

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Untitled (Snafu), 2009

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Untitled (Formian Dreams + Actuality)

$3,120,018

Jun 2024

Sotheby's

By the Ionian Sea, 1988

$2,739,528

Jun 2024

Sotheby's

Portrait of a Young Man, 1962

$791,419

Jun 2024

Sotheby's

Death of Giuliano de Medici , 1962

Christie's

Sotheby's

Christie's

Untitled (Roman Note), 1970

$1,623,000

Mar 2024

For Sale 1

André Viana · Artsy

Reflection, 1965

For sale

Pencil and color crayon on paper

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Market1,468 auction results

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$5.3K – $71M

173 of 186 paintings lots with prices

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$7.3M

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$3.2M

173 priced paintings lots

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May 2026 · $540K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Paintings: $3.2M medianWorks on paper: $212K medianSculpture/objects: $2.0M medianPhotographs: $13.2K medianEditioned prints: $9.4K medianPosters/ephemera: $7.3K medianUnclassified lots: $19.5K medianBooks/portfolios: $8.8K median

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PhillipsSotheby'sChristie'sGrisebachWoodshed Art Auctions

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Prizes & Awards2

Praemium Imperiale

Winner 1996

Goslarer Kaiserring

Winner Year unknown

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Education4

Art Students League New York

Black Mountain College

Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University

Boston, MA, USA

University of Washington

Seattle, WA, USA

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Publications19

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Catalogue Raisonné 2

Cy Twombly Author

Prestel · 2012

Kunsthaus Zürich Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen

Hatje Cantz · 2007

Monograph 5

Cy Twombly

Yale University Press · 2018

Late Paintings 2003 - 2011

Thames & Hudson · 2015

Cy Twomblys things

Yale University Press · 2014

The Essential Cy Twombly

Thames & Hudson · 2014

CY TWOMBLY: A MONOGRAPH

Thames & Hudson · 2005

Exhibition Catalog 7

Turner Monet Twombly

Hatje Cantz · 2011

Action Painting

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Die Skulpturen der Maler: Malerei und Plastik im Dialog

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Les Peintres-Sculpteurs

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Cy Twombly Author

Hatje Cantz · 2007

In the Beginning was Merz: From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day

Hatje Cantz · 2000

Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol

Prestel · 1982

Group Catalog 2

Hisachika Takahashi: From Memory Draw a Map of the United States

Hatje Cantz · 2015

Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection

Phaidon Press

Survey 3

Painting Masterclass: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Artists

Thames & Hudson · 2019

Kunst zum Hören: Meisterwerke aus dem Kunsthaus Zürich

Hatje Cantz · 2009

Ende der Malerei und Malerei nach dem Ende der Malerei

Hatje Cantz · 1998

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Current Exhibitions1

Alpha 137 Gallery

Landscapes, Cityscapes, Waterscapes and Skyscapes: paintings, works on paper and prints

Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Wolf Kahn, Ai Weiwei, Peter Saul, Marsden Hartley, Paul Resika, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Richard Estes, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, FAILE, Mark di Suvero, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jennifer Losch Bartlett, Peter Blake, Christo, Peter Max, Sonia Gechtoff, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Jonas Wood, Gregory Amenoff, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Billy Al Bengston, April Gornik, Gerald Laing, Paula Scher, Michael Lekakis, Paul Feeley, William T. Wiley, John Button, Hyde Solomon, Howard Kanovitz, George Trakas, Asa Cheffetz, Lynton Wells, Melissa Miller, Milton Glaser, Bob Stanley, Walter Darby Bannard, Katherine Porter, Lois Dodd, Richard Haas, Thelma Appel, Alan Cote, Norman Carton, Ben Wilson, Edward Giobbi, Franz Eggenschwiler, Javacheff Christo, David Shapiro (b. 1922), Kathan Brown, William Waitzman, Helen Siegl

Showplace Design and Antique Center, 40 W 25th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10010, United States

Jun 12, 2026 — Sep 10, 2026

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Recent News20

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MoMA PS1 Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary Promoting Emerging Art

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marketJun 5, 2026

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exhibitionsJun 3, 2026

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marketJun 2, 2026

She was one of the most powerful women in the art world. Three works from her collection could sell for nearly $150 million

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marketJun 2, 2026

Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums

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marketJun 1, 2026

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