Product Description

• Accompanies a vast non-traveling retrospective at the Centre Pompidou (11/30/16-4/26/17) with works from public and private collections worldwide
• Includes texts by notable scholars and art historians writers artists and collectors
• Features archival material and personal photographs

The American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was one of the seminal artists of the second half of the twentieth century with a complex oeuvre extending over six decades. His work brilliantly fused the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism with the intellectual rigor of classical European and Mediterranean culture reflecting his extensive reading in history classical literature and mythology. This catalogue edited by curator Jonas Storsve accompanies a sweeping retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris one of the largest exhibitions on his work to date.

Twombly's artistic development is traced through more than 200 paintings?? sculptures?? drawings?? and photographs which span his entire career?? including three major history painting c