Lithograph and mixed media on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Natural History, Part I, Mushrooms
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>
VI
Purchased 1981
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
gestural
inscriptions
mushroom
number
organic
plants and flowers
symbols and personifications
paper unique lithograph mixed media
31 January 2020 – 2 September 2020
2020-09-02
31 January 2020 – 2 September 2020
2020-09-02
2020-01-31
Somerset House (London, UK)
2020-01-31
Mushrooms
Loan-out
No. VI
support: 758 × 558 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><span>A portfolio of ten prints printed on Rives Couronne Paper (except for III on Richard de Bas paper) in pristine condition.  The prints are mixed media technique of colour lithography, grano lithography, collotype and photochrome with collage and drawing by the artist. The portfolio is from an edition of 98 with 17 artist’s proofs and 1 printer’s proof has been printed at the Mattieu Studio in Zurich in the summer of 1974.  Each print is signed and numbered by the artist and embossed with the printer’s sign.  The ten prints in each portfolio are marked with an embossed number from I-X.</span>
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<br/><span>Katharine Lockett</span>
<br/><span>March 2003</span>
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Technique and condition
2003-11-05T00:00:00
technique-and-condition
TECHNIQUE_AND_CONDITION_TEXT
<p><b>P07578</b> [from] NATURAL HISTORY PART I (MUSHROOMS) 1974 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-no-i-p07573" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07573</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-no-x-p07582" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07582</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>All inscribed ‘CT’ bottom right and ‘77/98’
<br/>Ten lithographs with collage, printed at Matthieu Studio, Zurich, published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, each 29 7/8×22 (75.8×55.8)
<br/>Purchased from Schellman &amp; Klüser (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>This is one of two portfolios made in the mid 1970s, the other being ‘Natural History Part II (Some Trees of Italy)’ 1976. Twombly uses a quasi-scientific presentation with his characteristic expressive, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gestural" title="Glossary definition for 'Gestural'"><span>gestural</span></a> graphic language; 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>prints</span></a> contain a variety of different <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographic</span></a> printings with <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collaged</span></a> sheets 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/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a>.
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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
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities from recognisable sources gestural inscriptions mushroom number organic plants and flowers symbols and personifications