Cy Twombly - a life in pictures

Cy Twombly in April 1958 Photograph: David Lees/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Bacchanalia-Fall (5 Days in November), 1977
Photograph: Staatsgemäldesammlungen

Untitled (Peonies), 1980
Photograph: Private collection

Untitled, 2001
Photograph: Private collection/Gagosian Gallery

Pasargade, 1990
Photograph: Mike Bruce at Gate Studios/Dulwich Picture Gallery

Ferragosto V, 1961
Photograph: Private Collection/Courtesy Thomas Ammann Fine Art

Hero and Leandro, 1985
Photograph: Courtesy Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich/Dulwich Picture Gallery

Nicola's Irises, 1990
Photograph: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

A woman looks at a painting by Twombly at the Gagosian Gallery in Paris in 2010 Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images

The Rose III, 2009, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Quattro Stagioni: Autunno, 1993-5
Photograph: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Untitled painting at Centre Pompidou exhibition in 2004 Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images

Visitors sit in front of Twombly's Lepanto series at the Brandhorst Museum in Munich in 2009 Photograph: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images

Twombly and his painted ceiling in the Salle des Bronzes at the Louvre, Paris Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images