CY TWOMBLY — BILDER UND ZEICHNUNGEN

CY TWOMBLY — BILDER UND ZEICHNUNGEN

A rare and early document of Cy Twombly’s graphic language at its most raw and lyrical.
Published in 1975 by Galerie Karsten Greve in Cologne, this scarce volume brings together a focused selection of paintings and works on paper, tracing Twombly’s distinctive approach to mark-making, gesture, and poetic abstraction. Emerging from the postwar dialogue between American and European art, his work resists fixed interpretation—hovering between writing and drawing, memory and erasure.
The pages unfold like a visual notebook: nervous lines, fragmented symbols, layered surfaces. Scribbles become structure; hesitation becomes rhythm. References to mythology, history, and literature appear only to dissolve again into a language that feels both intimate and elusive.
Printed in Germany, Bilder und Zeichnungen captures Twombly at a crucial moment in his career—before institutional canonization, when his work still carried the immediacy of something unresolved and searching. A quiet but powerful artifact, the book remains highly sought after by collectors attuned to the subtleties of postwar abstraction and artist publications.