Edwin Parker Twombly Jr (1928 - 2011)

Born 25 Apr 1928 in Lexington, Virginia, United States

Husband of Tatiana (Franchetti) Twombly — married 1959 in New York City, New York, United States

Died 5 Jul 2011 at age 83 in Roma, Lazio, Italy

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Biography

American painter of International reknown

From wikipedia: In 1957, Twombly moved to Rome, where he met the Italian artist Tatiana Franchetti – sister of his patron Baron Giorgio Franchetti. They were married at New York City Hall in 1959 and then bought a palazzo on the Via di Monserrato in Rome. In addition, they had a 17th-century villa in Bassano in Teverina, north of Rome. They had a son, Cyrus Alessandro Twombly (born 1959), who is also a painter and lives in Rome.

In 1964, Twombly met Nicola Del Roscio of Gaeta, who became his longtime companion. Twombly bought a house and rented a studio in Gaeta in the early 1990s. Twombly and Tatiana, who died in 2010, never divorced and remained friends.

In 2011, after suffering from cancer for several years, Twombly died in Rome after a brief hospitalization. A plaque in Santa Maria in Vallicella commemorates him.

Sources

• https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jul/06/cy-twombly-obituary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cy-twombly-influential-va-born-abstract-artist-dies-at-83/2011/07/05/gHQAmHwmzH_story.html