Mr Twombly likes it so much he has kept it in his own collection.
On a trip to Rome, he ran into the sons of Cy Twombly and Paul Klee.
Mr Twombly disappeared from the view of most Americans when he left the United States in 1957.
Twombly decision in 2007 made it much harder for class-action lawyers to sue over such covert behavior.
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The auction will also include pieces by Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly, John Currin, Tauba Auerbach and Mark Bradford.
But with the likes of Barthes having weighed in for the other side, Mr Twombly may be disappointed.
For all the shrill noise of his scrawled marginalia, Mr Twombly's tone can often be very grand and stentorian.
Which Twombly will be remembered when he is gone is hard to say.
Meanwhile, she was the catalyst behind the Twombly painting from his Rome series, which hangs on the dining room wall.
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By that time Mr Twombly had found his style, one that diverges distinctively from Abstract Expressionism and almost satirises it.
In an antitrust case--the subject of Twombly--evidence of an outright conspiracy is hard to obtain without a court order, Vail says.
The foundation now controls much of Mr. Twombly's work, Mr. Lerner said.
Mr Twombly is a well-read painter, and his work is saturated with references to the Greek myths, and to poets such as T.
The two shared a studio in Manhattan for a time on their return, but Mr Twombly soon departed once more and settled in Italy where he has been based ever since.
Mr Twombly, who is being given his first retrospective in 15 years, uses materials that have come to him at random bits of wood, cardboard, bronze boxes, palm leaves and plastic flowers.
Twombly dismissed claims that telecommunications companies had conspired to restrain trade (by agreeing not to compete with one another) in the absence of any factual allegations making it plausible that any such conspiracy existed.
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The money to pay for the townhouse was raised by the foundation from the sale of Twombly works last year that went to the Museum of Modern Art a few months before the artist died.
The only real evidence of the De Soles's worldly life is their art collection, which features works by Cy Twombly, Brice Marden and Mark Rothko, alongside modern Italian artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti.
But the Court explained in Twombly that the Conley statement had never been accepted literally in subsequent court decisions, and that the actual result reached in Conley (that the plaintiff had alleged sufficient facts to survive a Rule 8 motion to dismiss) continues to be fully accepted.
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Indeed, the foundation's new American headquarters at 19 E. 82nd St. is in a strategic location to showcase the artist's work: It is just down the street from the main entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose collection includes some of Mr. Twombly's sparse sketches and paintings.
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