During his career, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) experimented with figures and tonalities from distinct historical eras. Gagosian presents an examination of two of these chapters. First on display is the minimalism known as his “blackboards” period, 1968 to 1971, which fuses the modern Conceptual Art movement with inspiration from a composition in Leonardo’s Deluge drawings (circa 1517-18). On another floor of the gallery hangs a series of green paintings that Twombly created in Bassano in Teverina, Italy, between 1981 and 1986. Here the Earth’s elemental hues suggest the classic dreaminess of Rococo landscapes. Highlights also include a few gems created outside these two series, such as Condottiero Testa di Cozzo (1987), inspired by Titian’s 16th-century Italian portraiture, and Five Day Wait at Jiayuguan (1980), a suite of works based on Twombly’s global travels that have not been shown together since the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980. —Lucy Horowitz