“I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.”

— Cy Twombly

Quote, 1994, from Cy Twombly, a monograph, Richard Leeman / picture research Isabelle d’Hauteville. London, 2005; p. 103
1980 - 1999

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American painter 1928–2011

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