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Cy Twombly Flower Arrangements

a 2011 photo of a 1998 cy twombly sculpture of a black colored bronze rose on top of a lumpy white rock stained with rust, atop a box neatly wrapped in fading purple now brownish velvet, with a cheaply engraved brass plaque on the face of the box, sitting on a white pedestal, probably in the dulwich picture gallery, the first place this sculpture was publicly exhibited.
Cy Twombly, That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do, 1998, 36 x 37 x 27.5 cm, bronze, stone, velvet, box, brass, at Dulwich Picture Gallery via Independent

I’ve had the tabs open so long I can’t remember where I heard or from whom, but someone had made a big point about visiting Cy Twombly and seeing a sculpture in a bedroom that had never been seen, in a style that didn’t fit his typical style. It was a tacky plastic flower, painted black, on a rusty rock, on a velvet-covered box, with a plaque like from a bowling trophy.

the cover of cy twombly photographs written in his trademark scrawl on two tan bands above and below a blurry polaroid photo of a sculpture detail of a black bronze rose and a rusty spot on a speckled white stone
Cover, Cy Twombly Photographs, 1951-1999, 2002, Nicola Del Roscio, images via Gagosian Shop, which, obv there was a 1993 Matthew Marks exhibition catalogue of photos before this, but still

At first, I remember thinking, really? The 1998 sculpture on the cover of Twombly’s first monograph of photos, published in 2002? But that is a different experience. [Interesting, the sculpture is configured differently in photos inside.]

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Cy Twombly Froggie

a tacky porcelain frog, seated like cy twombly would sit on the bench outside the walmart near lexington, with his hands on his belly, sits on a white pedestal surrounded by other white pedestals in twombly's storefront studio. sally mann took this pic, and this is a screnshot from the ny public library talk excerpt about this photo, so the seo caption is cy twombly and froggie by sally man, live from the nypl

This screenshot from months ago was mis-saved into my research folder for an article I’m tryna finish, no idea why. But the story Sally Mann told about this photo is less interesting than the photo itself, and much less interesting than the fact that Twombly had this junk store froggie in his Lexington studio and called it Froggie. It’s in her Twombly photos book.

I think the frog is only like 3.5 inches tall.

[update: nvm, Tacita Dean photographed it too, and it is three apples tall.]