Originally published on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly at the Hermitage: Fifty Years of Works on Paper in 2003. The eighty-four works in the retrospective were collected from the artist’s studio and many had not been previously exhibited. Dating from between 1953 and 2002, the drawings embrace the entire career of one of the most important American artists, from his early monotypes to the major mythological cycles of later years, revealing the many nuances of his aesthetic approach.