Cy Twombly: Paradise

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. In themid-1950s, following travels in Europe and Africa, he emerged as aprominent figure among a group of artists working in New York thatincluded Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1968, the MilwaukeeArt Center mounted his first retrospective. This was followed by majorretrospectives at the Kunsthaus Zurich (1987) travelling to Madrid,London and Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994) and thePinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2006). In 1995, the Cy TwomblyGallery opened at The Menil Collection, Houston, exhibiting works madeby the artist since 1954. The European retrospective Cy Twombly: Cyclesand Seasons opened at the Tate Modern, London in June 2008, withsubsequent versions at the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Museum ofModern Art in Rome in 2009. Recent exhibitions include Cy Twombly:The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007, The Art Institute ofChicago (2009) and Sensations of the Moment, the Museum ModernerKunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, (2009). In 2010, Twombly's permanentsite-specific painting, Ceiling was unveiled in the Salle des Bronzes at theMusee du Louvre. At the same time he was made Chevalier of the Legiond'Honneur by the French government.Twombly died in 2011 in Rome, Italy.