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Article: The White Originals.(Cy Twombly: The Sculpture)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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The first comprehensive overview of Cy Twombly's sculpture, a body of work that spans the years from 1946 to the present, is currently at the Basel Kunstmuseum, in an exhibition the author views as a work of art in itself.
Some painter-sculptors come to sculpture late--Renoir, Newman, de Kooning. A more common pattern for them is to start when quite young making sculpture that is hardly shown till they are old--Matisse, Picasso--or dead--Degas. One of Twombly's earliest recorded works in any medium is an assemblage made in 1946, when he was 18. His known sculptural oeuvre includes about 150 pieces, yet no more than 20 of them had been seen together in public ...