La Nil: Paintings 1998-2014

“As the artist was grieving the loss of a dear friend … he offered a very straightforward statement of what his art is: the feeling of life.”

On july 5, 2011, the day of Cy Twombly’s death, Julian Schnabel painted a series of cruciform works as a tribute to the late artist who was an important influencer of his early painting and a close friend. “La Nil” examines these artworks next to a number of recent paintings and sculptural work from Schnabel.