Cy Twombly - the Last Paintings

Book accompanied with the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery (2012) In tribute to the late Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery will present his last paintings, together with about 100 of his photographs. The eight untitled paintings are closely related to the Camino Real group that inaugurated Gagosian Paris in 2010. The inimitable, exuberant paintwork and bold, intense colors typify the freedom with which Twombly worked, never restricted to a single reference. Even in the face of his impending death, their elegiac power, vivid palette, and ardent gestures pulse with the energies of the new. The intimate photographs range from early studio images taken in the 1950s to a group of landscapes taken in St Barths in 2011. Since 2008, major exhibitions of the artist's photographs have been held at FOAM Amsterdam; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; and the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; however this is the first time that this lesser known aspect of Twombly's oeuvre has been presented in such depth in the United States. Twombly remains one of the world's most revered contemporary artists, whose central and ongoing relevance to the art of the present is attested to by a stream of recent survey exhibitions in leading international institutions. Since the opening of Larry Gagosian's first gallery in New York in the mid-1980s, Twombly has been a cornerstone of Gagosian Gallery, where he made many exhibitions over the last 25 years. Each one was as surprising and memorable as the next, from "The Bolsena Paintings" (1990) to "The Coronation of Sesostris" (2001), "Lepanto" (2002), "Bacchus" (2006), "A Scattering of Blossoms" (2007), and "The Rose" (2009). "Ten Paintings and a Sculpture" (2004), "Three Notes for Salalah" (2008), "Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves" (2009), and "Camino Real"(2010) inaugurated new galleries in London, Rome, Athens, and Paris respectively. "The Last Paintings" opened in Los Angeles earlier this year and travelled to Hong Kong and London before coming....