CY TWOMBLY (Lexington 1928–2011 Rome) Natural History Part I Mushrooms. 1974. Portfolio with 10 colour lithographs with collotype, collage and reworked by the artist, as well as with the imprint and title. 4/17 AP, artist's proof outside the edition of 98 (additionally numbered in the imprint). Each monogrammed in pencil lower right: CT. Sheet size 76 × 56 cm on wove paper by Rives Couronne (sheet III on Richard de Bas), loosely in a paper folder. Published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin. Printed by Matthieu Studio, Zurich (each with the blindstamp). In original box. Complete. Catalogue raisonné: Bastian, no. 42-51. “Probably even more than the architecture I'd be drawn to landscape. That's my first love, landscape. All kinds of landscape, if it's not cluttered up and vandalized (…)” Cy Twombly

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