Cy Twombly: In Beauty it is finished: Drawings 1951–2008, West 21st Street, New York, March 8–April 25, 2018

Cy Twombly, Untitled (New York City) (1968)

Cy Twombly’s “Lepanto” cycle is a series of 12 paintings that trace a single day in 1571, one of the most brutal naval battles in history. The sequence begins quietly, in the early hours before the Battle of Lepanto begins, then builds toward chaos. As the series unfolds, the sea grows darker, redder, heavier—marking the scale of violence that left around 50,000 people dead in just one day. Twombly doesn’t frame the battle in terms of heroes or victors. There are no clear winners here, only move

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