Accession Number
1976/2.131

Title
Untitled

Artist(s)
Cy Twombly

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1973

Medium & Support
lithograph and two-color screenprint on paper

Dimensions
12 in x 9 in (30.5 cm x 22.9 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46.1 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Robert Rauschenberg

Subject matter
This work was part of a portfolio of 30 works, created as a fund-raising effort for the project Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). The project was partially-funded by the director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm at the time. In this Abstract Expressionist style, Twombly's work for the portfolio showed his use of the calligraphic line. As such, he depicted groupings of diagonal and overlapping lines here in order to play with the notions of the hidden and the visible, often conjuring ideas of memory and of oblivion.

Physical Description
This is an abstract print in black and light blue. With very little border, the print consists of a series of diagonal lines primarily, reaching from top right to bottom left. There are also horizontal black lines towrds the top and bottom of the image.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Abstract Expressionist
The New York Collection for Stockholm
abstraction
collaboration
diagonal
modern and contemporary art
portfolios (groups of works)