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CY TWOMBLY: PAINTINGS / WORKS ON PAPER / SCULPTURE
(TWOMBLY, CY). Szeeman, Harald, Bernard Blistene, Roberta Smith, Demosthenes Davvetas, Pierre Restany, Roland Barthes & Cy Twombly. Introduction by Jean-Hubert Martin. Munich, GERMANY: Prestel-Verlag, 1987. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 240pp, 119 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in English. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with a massive 1987 traveling Cy Twombly European Museum retrospective. Comprised of one hundred and fifteen paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, it was the largest exhibition to date of the work of the late abstract master. It contains reproductions of each of the exhibited pieces along with writings by curator Harald Szeeman, Bernard Blistene, Roberta Smith, Demosthenes Davvetas, Pierre Restany, Roland Barthes, Jean-Hubert Martin, and Cy Twombly himself. A bright, most handsome example of the 1987 hardbound English language edition. 3-7913-0840-8 Inventory Number: 025625