Cy Twombly, artist, dead at age 83

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The American artist Cy Twombly has died. Above, an image from his "Ferragosto" series, from 1961. He died in Rome, after a long battle with cancer.

News: AP, New York Times, LA Times, WSJ.

"A great American painter who deeply loved old Europe has just left us," French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said in a statement. "His work was deeply marked by his passion for Greek and Roman antiquity, and its mythology, which for him was a source of bottomless inspiration."
Twombly was known for his abstract works combining painting and drawing techniques, repetitive lines and the use of words and graffiti. He is often linked to the legendary American artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

Twombly is represented by the Gagosian Gallery. And this site has many images of his work.