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Pan II belongs to the drawings where Cy Twombly worked with pencil, crayon and thin paint, letting his hand wander across the sheet. What you see is loose, restless marking rather than a fixed picture.

Scrawls, loops and scratched lines sit on a pale ground, and the title pulls toward the old god of wild places. The framed poster holds that open, unfinished feel and keeps the paper matte, so pencil grey stays soft with no shine when a lamp is on.

A dark wood frame looks right against a white wall in a hallway, hung at head height where the light falls evenly. From the doorway you catch the sweep of line before anything else.