# Cy Twombly - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T20:32:16.675Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 1,010
- Lots with prices: 783
- First auction date: 1993-11-10
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-31
- Median realised price: $12,000
- Price range: $25 to $52,887,500

## Market Takeaway
Cy Twombly shows very deep auction liquidity with 1,004 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $11,875. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 44 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($11,875\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,400 and $187,500.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 17.6% (137 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30.7% (239 sales)
- $10,000\+: 51.7% (402 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 44
- Previous 12 months sales: 106
- Recent 12 months median: $3,492
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 70
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 317 lots
- Sotheby's: 168 lots
- Phillips: 46 lots
- Finarte: 33 lots
- Bonhams: 29 lots
- Absolute Auction: 28 lots
- Finarte Roma: 20 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 19 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 18 lots
- Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery: 17 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-10 | Cy Twombly \(American 1928\-2011\), 'Three Notes from Salalah Poster', 2008 | Tate Ward Auctions | £100
2. 2025-12-08 | Cy Twombly \(1928\-2011\), Grottaferrata, 1959 | Hammersite | N/A
3. 2025-12-06 | CY TWOMBLY 'NAUMACHIA' OFFSET LITHOGRAPH | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
4. 2025-12-05 | Cy Twombly \(1928 Lexington \- Rom 2011\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €5,000
5. 2025-12-02 | Cy Twombly \(Lexington 1928 \- Roma 2011\) \- Untitled, 1975 | Finarte | €700
6. 2025-11-05 | CY TWOMBLY \(Virginia/New York/Italy, 1928\-2011\), "Perfectly Paris"., Giclée, 39.5" x 23.5". Framed 64" x 43.5". | Eldred's | $250
7. 2025-11-02 | Cy Twombly \(1928\-2011\), Rome | Hammersite | N/A
8. 2025-10-24 | CY TWOMBLY \(1928\-2011\). Untitled II. Image: 23 ½ x 28 ¼ in. \(597 x 717 mm.\) | Christie's | N/A
9. 2025-10-24 | Cy Twombly \(1928\-2011\). Sans titre. | Christie's | €279,400
10. 2025-10-22 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2025-10-22 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
12. 2025-10-14 | CY TWOMBLY \(AMERICAN 1928\-2011\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cy-twombly-american-1928-2011-61-c-48f4279a89
13. 2025-09-30 | CY TWOMBLY \(1928\-2011\). Untitled. graphite, wax crayon, colored pencil, wat | Christie's | $228,600
14. 2025-09-30 | CY TWOMBLY \(1928\-2011\). Birth of Venus. wax crayon and graphite on paper13 | Christie's | N/A
15. 2025-09-30 | Cy Twombly \(1928\-2011\), A signed partial set of the Cy Twombly paintings catalogue raisonné, 1992 | John Moran Auctioneers | $3,492
16. 2025-09-27 | CY TWOMBLY 'LEAVING PAPHOS RINGED WITH WAVES' | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | $100
17. 2025-09-18 | Cy Twombly \(American 1928\-2011\), 'Poster Project', 1980/2019 | Tate Ward Auctions | £350
18. 2025-09-15 | Cy Twombly \(1928\-2011\), Rome | Hammersite | $5,000
19. 2025-07-17 | CY TWOMBLY \(1928\-2011\). Octavio Paz, Eight Poems, Cy Twombly, Ten Drawings. | Christie's | $2,772
20. 2025-07-03 | CY TWOMBLY, UNTITLED | Kruso Art | €1,600
21. 2025-06-25 | Cy Twombly, Apollo, 2008 | Roseberys | N/A
22. 2025-06-25 | Cy Twombly 1928–2011 | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 2,000
23. 2025-06-25 | Cy Twombly \(1928\-2011\) 8 Odi Di Orazio, 1968 | Piasa | €9,500
24. 2025-06-25 | Cy Twombly \(American 1928\-2011\), 'Three Notes from Salalah Poster', 2008 | Tate Ward Auctions | £200

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