Lust, heartbreak and suggestive sculpture: was this art’s greatest love triangle?

Lust, heartbreak and suggestive sculpture: was this art’s greatest love triangle?

The sensual American graffitist Cy Twombly, who lived in Italy from the late 1950s until his death in 2011, lushly inscribed his epic canvases with love poetry – Shelley and Keats, Cavafy and Catullus. The work was like an abstract expressionist Valentine’s card.

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