This presentation features twenty-seven works from a gift to the museum by the Cy Twombly Foundation, offering a focused yet expansive insight into the artist’s practice. Spanning three decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s, the exhibition traces key moments in Twombly’s development, highlighting both the continuity and transformation of his visual language over time.

The works on view encompass a broad range of materials and techniques, from graphite and oil paint to drawing and collage. Throughout, they engage with themes that are central to Twombly’s oeuvre, including classical antiquity, eroticism, and nature. These recurring subjects emerge through his distinctive gestural marks and layered surfaces, where writing, drawing, and painting often converge.

Several works in the exhibition will be presented for the first time, offering new perspectives on the artist’s production. Among them are a series of abstract landscapes from the 1980s, two untitled works from 1970 that recall his well-known “blackboard paintings,” and Narcissus (1975), a collage combining paper with oil, charcoal, and wax crayon, its title inscribed prominently in large capital letters across the bottom.