Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves Rockefeller Center and Claude Picasso and Sir

and Claude Picasso and Sir John Richardson engage in an intimate conversation about their shared memories

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as well as copious full-page plates

the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece in four decades

they named the land after the imaginary island

Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves Rockefeller Center and Claude Picasso and SirThis poster featuring Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (I) (2009) was produced in 2009, in conjunction with Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves at Gagosian, Athens. This exhibition inaugurated the Athens gallery and featured a group of four canvases inspired by a quote from the seventh century BCE choral lyric poet Alkman. Twomblys abbreviation of the original line announces the departure from Paphos, a city sacred to the goddess Aphrodite.