Art Market Monitor

Global Coverage ~ Unique Analysis

  • AMMpro
  • AMM Fantasy Collecting Game
  • Podcast
  • Contact Us

Philadelphia Gest 5 Twombly Sculptures from Foundation

November 10, 2016 by Marion Maneker

As Cy Twombly’s art continues its upward curve on the market, his foundation continues to smartly bolster the museum representation of his work. The Philadelphia Museum has his painting cycle, Fifty Days at Iliam. Now it will have five sculptures from the foundation and one from a private donation that the artist himself considered related to the larger work.

Here’s the Times coverage of the announcement:

Twombly’s sculptures were not highly sought-after during his lifetime. (“I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them,” Twombly told Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate museums, in 2007.) But in 2011 the Museum of Modern Art acquired seven sculptures and last year the Art Institute of Chicago acquired a major early one. Before his death, Twombly picked out the five bronzes as ones he felt should be displayed in Philadelphia in the “Iliam” galleries, whose 10 towering canvases were inspired by Alexander Pope’s translation of Homer’s “Iliad.” “Cy’s sculptures have been very important for other artists, for artists working now,” said Carlos Basualdo, the museum’s curator of contemporary art. “And we’re so lucky that he was involved in choosing these. It grew out of a conversation about which pieces would play well with the paintings.”

5 Twombly Sculptures to Join His Paintings at Philadelphia Museum (The New York Times)

More from Art Market Monitor

  • Dia Founders Sue to Stop Sotheby’s Sale of Twombly and ChamberlainDia Founders Sue to Stop Sotheby’s Sale of Twombly and Chamberlain
  • Twombly Through the Lens of SonnabendTwombly Through the Lens of Sonnabend
  • Luxury Purchasing Growth to Level OffLuxury Purchasing Growth to Level Off
  • Looking at the Most Traded Contemporary Artists Different WaysLooking at the Most Traded Contemporary Artists Different Ways
  • Deutsch's Art DashDeutsch's Art Dash
  • Wrightsman Will Let Anyone See Her FurnitureWrightsman Will Let Anyone See Her Furniture

Filed Under: Artists, General, Museums Tagged With: Twombly

About Marion Maneker

Want to get Art Market Monitor‘s posts sent to you in our email? Sign up below by clicking on the Subscribe button.

Top Posts

  • Rare Photo Album by Dutch Street Photographer Bought at Auction by Rijksmuseum
  • Keith Haring’s 1989 Retrospect Comes to Sotheby’s London Prints Sale
  • Norman Rockwell's Not Gay. But Is He a Great Artist?
  • The Brandeis-Madoff Connection
  • Four of Picasso's Women Valued at $28m Come to Christie's from Rose-Walters Collection
  • David Hockney's $20m Pacific Coast Highway & Santa Monica
  • Christie's Announces $70m Picasso Self Portrait
  • Tony Podesta's Secret Art Buying
  • Roy Lichtenstein’s Top Ten Auction Prices
  • Phillips Includes $2.5m Norman Rockwell Painting in November Evening Sale
  • About Us/ Contact
  • Podcast
  • AMMpro
  • Newsletter
  • FAQ

twitterfacebooksoundcloud
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
California Privacy Rights
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Advertise on Art Market Monitor