Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor | Gagosian Quarterly
Cy Twombly, Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994, oil, acrylic, oil stick, crayon, and graphite on canvas, 3 panels, 157 ½ × 624 inches (400.1 × 1,585 cm), The Menil Collection, Houston Cy Twombly, Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994, oil, acrylic, oil stick, crayon, and graphite on canvas, 3 panels, 157 ½ × 624 inches (400.1 × 1,585 cm), The Menil Collection, Houston Thierry Greub is an art historian and lecturer based in Cologne, Germany. He received his PhD from the Universität Basel in 1991 and his postdoctoral lecture qualification, on Cy Twombly’s inscriptions, from the Universität zu Köln in 2017. He published the six-volume Cy Twombly: Inscriptions (Paderborn, Germany: Brill | Fink, 2022). By subscribing you agree to our Privacy Policy. From 1953 until his death, in 2011, Cy Twombly inscribed handwritten notations into his works, and from 1959 onward these were mainly literary quotations from 111 different authors.1