Bacchus

Private collection.

Acrylic paints on canvas.

In the late period of creativity, Twombly returned to his graphic experiments, covering the canvas with rhythmically repeating scribbles, similar to how someone paints with a ballpoint pen. The artist had used to draw lines on a large canvas, sitting on the shoulders of his assistant, who gradually moved along the work, and then Cy Twombly applied a different technique to create paintings from the Bacchus series: he tied a brush to a long holder and drove it across the canvas, creating endless curls. This extremely minimalistic composition is, nevertheless, one of the most expensive paintings of the artist. It was sold for $ 46 million at Christie’s auction in New York in 2017.