Cy Twombly's tremendous Untitled, boil - based house paint and wax
crayon on canvas painting was sold for the mind melting price of $ 69,605,000, setting a world auction record for the artist.
Not exact matches
The show's more than fifty works included important
canvases from private and public collections, but the most spectacular inclusions, in many ways, were the works
on paper, ranging from intimate pencil studies with little or no color to pastel and
crayon - enriched images, as complete as
paintings; many of these had rarely — if ever — been exhibited before.
The Egyptian Hat Trick, 1998, water based enamel
paint, spackle, charcoal, pencil and
crayon on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
After a while, he decided to combine installation and drawing creating monumental works called» Installation Drawings»
on canvas or linen and pinned to the wall and later covered with black
paint stick, one sort of grease wax
crayon.
Another Twombly, Lot 51, «Mohammed Ali,» a oil
paint, wax
crayon and graphite
on canvas that was executed in 1964 had an estimate of $ 800,000 to $ 1,200,000 and was passed at $ 650,000.
The oil - based house
paint, wax
crayon, and lead pencil
on canvas, measures 79 by 94 3/4 inches.
Ash from artist's burnt previous
paintings, house
paint, dirt, burnt wax
crayon,
canvas mounted
on wood, mounted in custom artist frame
Ash finger
paint, gaffers tape, wax
crayons, paper towels, paper towel rolls, dirt, paper, and house
paint on canvas mounted
on wood
Ash from artist's burnt previous
paintings, house
paint, oil
paint, dirt, burnt wax
crayon,
on paper mounted
on canvas mounted
on wood, in custom artist frame
Ash from artist's burnt previous
paintings, house
paint, dirt, burnt wax
crayon,
on canvas, mounted in custom artist frame
Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) Untitled signed and dated «Cy Twombly 1971» (
on the reverse) oil - based house
paint, oil
paint, wax
crayon and lead pencil
on canvas 58 1/8 x 77 1/8 in.
Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asian Minor (A
Painting in Three Parts) by Cy Twombly (1994) Oil, Acrylic, oil / wax
crayon, and graphite
on three
canvases
There were eight big and nine medium - size dark
paintings in Galerie Max Hetzler's Bleibtreustraße location, along with one very large and colorful
canvas, a small work
on paper executed in colored pencil and
crayon, and an artist's book.
• English Sporting
Paintings o Henry Thomas Alken (English, 1785 - 1851), four works from the series A Steeplechase at Market Harborough, Leicestershire, ca. 1840 - 50, oil
on panel, each 10 × 14»: The First Fence; Taking a Brook; Bad Fall at a Paling Fence; and Coming up to the Finish o Sir Edwin Landseer (English, 1802 — 1873), A Terrier
on a Step, oil
on canvas, 7 ⅛ × 8 ⅛» o Sir Alfred J. Munnings (English, 1878 — 1959): Study of the Pytchley Bitch, 1928, oil
on panel, 16 × 16»; Pilot, one of Freeman's Hunters, Pytchley, Brixworth, 1928, oil
on board, 16 × 8 1/4» • European
Paintings o Kees van Dongen (Dutch, 1877 - 1968), Haystacks, n.d., (possibly ca. 1904 - 05), oil
on canvas, 19 ⅝ x 25 1/2» o Raoul Dufy (French, 1877 - 1953), L'Atelier au bouquet, 1942, oil
on canvas, 25 ⅝ × 31 ⅞» o Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903), Still Life with Bowl, ca. 1889, oil
on canvas, 8 x 12 ⅜» o Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1835 - 1890), Daisies, Arles, 1888, oil
on canvas, 13 x 16 1/2» o Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 - 1903), The «Royal Palace» at the Hermitage, Pontoise, 1879, oil
on canvas, 21 ⅜ x 25 ⅞» o Rene Princeteau (French, 1843 - 1914), Le Tilbury, oil
on canvas, 15 ⅞ x 22 ⅛» o Georges Seurat (French, 1859 - 1891), Houses and Garden, ca. 1882, oil
on canvas, 11 x 18 1/2» o Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901), Norfdac, 1881, oil
on panel, 9 1/4 x 5 ⅝» • European Drawings o Leon Bakst (Russian, 1866 - 1924), La Chasse, pencil and watercolor
on paper, sight: 12 ⅛ x 18 ⅝» o Eugène Boudin (French, 1824 - 1898), recto: Deux Bretonnes en costume, verso: untitled graphite and watercolor sketch, 10 1/2 x 8 ⅛» o Alexandre - Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803 - 1860), Studies of Hounds, black chalk
on grey paper, 6 3/4 x 10 ⅞» o Georges Seurat, Enfant à l'echarpe, black conte
crayon, sight: 6 1/2 x 4» o Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, Le depart, pen and ink and pencil, sight: 6 x 9 3/4»
Placing third for the evening was the 6 - foot - wide, untitled Twombly
canvas from 1970, covered in house
paint and wax
crayon and resembling chalk scribbles
on a blackboard.
Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) Sunset oil based house
paint, wax
crayon, colored pencil and lead pencil
on canvas 55 3/4 x 70 7/8 in.
Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) Untitled signed «Cy Twombly» (upper right); inscribed and dated «Bolsena July 10» (upper center) oil - based house
paint, wax
crayon and lead pencil
on canvas 79 x 94 1/4 in.
The Brooklyn - based artist begins with patterns from traditional Persian carpets, which he
paints on wall - mounted
canvases with oil
crayons and help from photographs he projects.
200 x 190 cm, oil, spray
paint, acrylic, oil
crayon on canvas.
Above, From left, «BC (3788),» 2012 (collage,
paint, bleach, glue, fabric
on wood) by Sterling Ruby; «DRAC,» 2011 (oil and
crayon on canvas) by Joe Bradley; and «Vampire Flag,» 2012 (fabric and fiber fill) by Sterling Ruby.
★ Joanne Greenbaum (closes
on Sunday) Using oil and acrylic
paints, pencils,
crayons and various markers
on canvases measuring 90 by 80 inches, Ms. Greenbaum has produced abstract compositions of infectiously joyous, improvisational panache.
Despina Stokou Bermuda Shorts, 2014 oil, spray
paint, oil
crayon, charcoal, pastel chalk and collage
on canvas 250 x 200 x 3 cm
After this purge, the remaining works — 60
paintings on stretchers, 150 loose
canvases, two portfolios with approximately 90 pen drawings, and between 100 and 200
crayon drawings — were piled onto a pushcart and taken to a local flea market, where they were sold according to size and «prettiness» for a penny or two each.