Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/cy-twombly-2079" aria-label="More by Cy Twombly" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Cy Twombly</a>
II
Purchased 1981
abstraction
gestural
non-representational
paper print etching
3 April 2015 – 18 October 2015
2015-10-18
3 April 2015 – 14 June 2015
2015-06-14
2015-04-03
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
2015-04-03
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions
Loan-out
3 April 2015 – 18 October 2015
2015-10-18
3 April 2015 – 14 June 2015
2015-06-14
2015-04-03
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
2015-04-03
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions
Exhibition
Untitled II
image: 597 × 718 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07406</b> UNTITLED 1967–74
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<br/>Inscribed ‘CT 67’ bottom right and ‘AP 4– 5’
<br/>Etching, printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, in an edition of 23, 23 1/2×28 1/4 (59.7× 71.7)
<br/>Purchased from Universal Limited Art Editions (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>One of a pair of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> made in 1967 but not editioned and published until 1973. This freely-drawn, open bite etching is related to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> made from 1967 to the early 1970s and known as the ‘rolling line’ pictures. This plate was inked with white, then black <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Ink'"><span>ink</span></a> was laid on the surface with a roller and the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> printed in one pass through the press.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction gestural non-representational