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Friday, 29 April 2016 12:14

Cy Twombly Paintings to Lead Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction

A blackboard painting by Cy Twombly. A blackboard painting by Cy Twombly. Flickr

On Wednesday, May 11, Sotheby’s New York will auction a trove of postwar and contemporary art estimated to be worth $257 million. The sale will be led by two canvases by Cy Twombly —a blackboard painting, which is expected to fetch $40 million, and a $20-million work from the artist’s gestural Bacchus series. Twombly’s current auction record was set in November 2015 at Sotheby’s, when a different blackboard painting netted $70.5 million.

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