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CY TWOMBLY: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1954-1977
(TWOMBLY, CY). Barthes, Roland, Heiner Bastian & David White. Foreword by Tom Armstrong. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 118pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, with two folding plates. With a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the substantial catalog published in conjunction the 1979 Cy Twombly retrospective held at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. With an essay by the noted late French philosopher Roland Barthes, it illustrates each of the eighty-five exhibited paintings and works on paper executed by the master of abstraction between 1954 and 1977. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 0-87427-011-1 Inventory Number: 025922