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Nike

1981

Cy Twombly

Associated Names

Cy Twombly

Artist, American, 1928 - 2011

The image includes swirling, textured brushstrokes in shades of pink and white forming an oval shape at the center. Thin, dynamic lines in red, yellow, and blue surround this shape. Above, there are red hand-drawn letters "NIKE" and other characters on a large canvas.

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Artwork overview

Medium

flat paint, crayon, and graphite on Fabriano wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace
Dimensions

sheet: 99.7 × 69.22 cm (39 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

1986.12.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sperone Westwater Fisher, New York); acquired 1986 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Sperone Westwater

Exhibition History

2001

A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, no. 128c.

Inscriptions

across top in red crayon: NIKE CT Aug 1 81

Watermarks

Fabriano

Wikidata ID

Q64540638

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