Cy Twombly is renowned for lyrical, gestural paintings and works on paper, but he also periodically engaged in sculpture during his long career. The artist’s evocative three-dimensional constructions speak to his fascination with fetish objects, tomb architecture, and ancient bas-reliefs, as well as an interest in myths, religious rituals, and storytelling. Untitled is a nearly human-scaled bronze cast from an original Twombly made with found pieces of wood. A viewer could see this piece as abstract, but the form also evokes the hieratic figures of ancient Egyptian sculpture the artist greatly admired.

Bronze.

Gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation.

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