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Cy Twombly

Coronation of Sesostris

November 11, 2000–January 27, 2001
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000 Acrylic, wax crayon and lead pencil on canvas, 81 ⅛ × 61 ⅝ inches (206.1 × 156.5 cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000

Acrylic, wax crayon and lead pencil on canvas, 81 ⅛ × 61 ⅝ inches (206.1 × 156.5 cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000 Mixed media on canvas, 80 3/16 × 61 ¼ inches (203.7 × 155.6cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000

Mixed media on canvas, 80 3/16 × 61 ¼ inches (203.7 × 155.6cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000 Mixed media on canvas, 79 ⅜ × 60 ⅞ inches (201.6 × 154.6cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000

Mixed media on canvas, 79 ⅜ × 60 ⅞ inches (201.6 × 154.6cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000 Acrylic, wax crayon and pencil on canvas, 81 ⅝ × 61 ⅜ inches (207.3 × 155.9cm)

Cy Twombly, Coronation of Sesostris, 2000

Acrylic, wax crayon and pencil on canvas, 81 ⅝ × 61 ⅜ inches (207.3 × 155.9cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Cy Twombly, the first to be exhibited in a New York gallery in nearly thirty years. Coronation of Sesostris (2000) is one painting in ten parts.

A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by David Shapiro will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

Cy Twombly: Coronation of Sesostris

Cy Twombly: Coronation of Sesostris

Cy Twombly’s Coronation of Sesostris (2000) receives a closer look by Gagosian Director, Mark Francis. In this video, he discusses the history of the work, the myths and poetry embedded within it, and considers its lasting impact.

Image of Cy Twombly's Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), 1970

Cy Twombly: Imperfect Paradise

Eleonora Di Erasmo, cocurator of Un/veiled: Cy Twombly, Music, Inspirations, a program of concerts, video screenings, and works by Cy Twombly at the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome, reflects on the resonances and networks of inspiration between the artist and music. The program was the result of an extensive three-year study, done at the behest of Nicola Del Roscio in the Rome and Gaeta offices of the Cy Twombly Foundation, intended to collect, document, and preserve compositions by musicians around the world who have been inspired by Twombly’s work, or to establish an artistic dialogue with them.

Black and white image of the interior of Cy Twombly’s apartment in Rome

Cy Twombly: Making Past Present

In 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced their plan for a survey of Cy Twombly’s artwork alongside selections from their permanent ancient Greek and Roman collection. The survey was postponed due to the lockdowns necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, but was revived in 2022 with a presentation at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles from August 2 through October 30. In 2023, the exhibition will arrive at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The curator for the exhibition, Christine Kondoleon, and Kate Nesin, author of Cy Twombly’s Things (2014) and advisor for the show, speak with Gagosian director Mark Francis about the origin of the exhibition and the aesthetic and poetic resonances that give the show its title: Making Past Present.

Cy Twombly, Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catallus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994, oil, acrylic, oil stick, crayon, and graphite on three canvases,

Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor

Thierry Greub tracks the literary references in Cy Twomblys epic painting of 1994.

Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louvre (2006), on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2021

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2021

The Summer 2021 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louvre (2006) on its cover.

Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1990, acrylic, wax crayon, and pencil on handmade paper, 30 ⅝ × 21 ⅝ inches (77.8 × 54.8 cm)

Twombly and the Poets

Anne Boyer, the inaugural winner of the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry, composes a poem in response to TwomblyAristaeus Mourning the Loss of His Bees (1973) and introduces a portfolio of the painters works accompanied by the poems that inspired them.