This catalogue, published by Sperone Westwater Fischer in 1982, was published in an edition of one thousand numbered copies, with fifty copies numbered and signed by the artist. It includes reproductions of artworks and a list of works exhibited, all of which were executed in 1981 in Bassano in Teverina. It contains no discursive text. 

For more on Twombly’s practice in this period, see also major retrospective catalogues and monographs, such as: Richard Leeman’s Cy Twombly: A Monograph (2005); Mary Jacobus’s Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (2016); Thierry Greub’s Inscriptions (2022); Cy Twombly: A Retrospective, ed. Kirk Varnedoe (1994); and Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, eds. Christine Kondoleon and Kate Nesin (2020). Twombly’s practice in the 1980s is also more closely examined in, e.g., Cy Twombly: Œuvres sur papier 1973–1977, Musée de Grenoble (2023).

(Publication description by Jamie Danis)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly. XI Recent Works at Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York (April 1 – May 8, 1982).

Cy Twombly. XI Recent Works. Published by Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, 1982. Fully illustrated.