TWOMBLY UNVEILS LOUVRE CEILING
The Associated Press notes that US artist Cy Twombly unveiled his latest work in one of the oldest wings of Paris’s Louvre museum yesterday, a blue ceiling with discus-shaped forms, which the eighty-one year old completed with help of assistants.
Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand attended the unveiling of the piece and appointed the painter a knight of France’s top National Order of the Legion of Honor.
Decorated with the names of sculptors from ancient Greece, the ceiling—a personal gift from the artist—appears to float over the Greek and Roman statuettes on display in the museum.
The museum bore all expenses of the 4,300-square-foot work, which was financed through the patronage of the Janet Wolfson de Botton Foundation and funds from the Gagosian Gallery.
Twombly is the third contemporary artist since 2007 to create a decorative painting for France’s grandest museum, after Germany’s Anselm Kiefer and Francois Morellet of France.
