Cy Twombly
1928 - 2011

Natural History Part I, Mushrooms. 1974.
Series of 10 color lithographs with heliotype, photochrome print Collagea snd color chalks drawing.
All monogrammed and numbered, with the embossed Roman sheet number and the copyright note. From an edition of 98 copies. On wove paper. Each: 76 x 56 cm (29.9 x 22 in), size of sheet.
Printed by Matthieu Studio, Zurich-Dielsdorf (each with a dry stamp). Published by Heiner Bastian at Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. Sheet VII comes from another copy of the same portfolio. [MH].

• Complete portfolio of ten prints.
• Striking contrast between the clarity of schematic photographic works and Twombly’s expressive graphic style.
• Another copy of this edition is at the Tate Gallery, London.
• One of Twombly’s most significant series, in which he explores the relationship between nature, humanity, and the unknown.

PROVENANCE: Corporate collection, Berlin.
Private collection, Berlin (since 2005, from the above).

LITERATURE: Heiner Bastian, Cy Twombly. Das graphische Werk 1953-1984. A catalogue raisonné of the printed graphic work, Munich/New York 1984, CR no. 42-51 (illustrated).