Cy Twombly, Untitled, 2007 Acrylic, wax crayon, pencil on wood 99-3/16 x 217-5/16 inches (252 x 552cm)

NEW YORK.-Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Cy Twombly. "A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things" was first shown at the Collection Lambert in Avignon, France earlier this year.
Twombly conceived these vast and exuberant panel paintings with the décor and balanced order of the typical eighteenth century hôtel particulier in mind. This most recent group of paintings are of a large horizontal format, each comprising six wooden panels. Across their broad surfaces, ideogrammatic blossoms of vivid crayon and viscous pigment, and haikus penciled in the artist's tremulous scrawl, combine and contrast with drips and efflorescent flows of startling, sometimes offbeat, mannerist color – burgundy, damask yellow, vermilion, rose, and mint green. Each of these so-called "peony" paintings is a daring invention, combining influences as diverse as French Enlightenment art, furnishings, and architecture, Japonisme, and the élan vital of Twombly's own original Abstract Expressionism.
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