CY TWOMBLY.(artist, "Coronation of Sesostris")(Brief Article)

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Cy Twombly's Coronation of Sesostris, 2000, looks like ten paintings--a suite, perhaps, like The Four Seasons, 1993-94, which formed the coda to the artist's MOMA retrospective seven years ago--but he calls it a painting in ten parts. And aptly so: Each panel might not hold up as an individual, self-contained work, but the whole succeeds brilliantly, its throwaway eloquence burning as brightly in the breaks between canvases as in the constituent parts themselves. It may not be entirely accidental, though, that the widths of the ten panels add up to not much more ...

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