Cy Twombly (1928-2011) created art that was remarkable for its versatility sensitivity & originality Throughout his career he followed his own artistic pathway independent from contemporary trends & for a long time his work went unnoticed by a wider audience By the time of his death in Rome at the age of eighty-three he was internationally recognized as one of the greatest & most idiosyncratic artists of the 20th & early 21st century At an early stage he began to develop his own symbolic language of letters & words which suggested a pictorial form of poetry References from art history & mythology soon expanded this poetic vocabulary often combined with a sensual engagement with the painted surface This book provides an authoritative overview of Twombly&s complex body of work bringing together the most important of his paintings & painting cycles as well as a selection of his drawings sculptures & photographs