Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly Ben Gillespie while Fontana’s metal sculptures combine

while Fontana’s metal sculptures combine human and natural structures

The volume also features interviews with Bella Freud and Jake Auerbach by Harry Thorne that reveal aspects of their fathers’ family relationships and studio practices and with Frank Auerbach by Richard Calvocoressi that offers reflections on his work and the milieu shared by the four artists

as well as two portraits on paper

an exhibition of large-scale charcoal drawings

Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly Ben Gillespie while Fontana’s metal sculptures combineThis book was published on the occasion of Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, an exhibition organized in 2025 by Museum Brandhorst, Munich, in cooperation with Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. The presentation focused on this circle of artists who had a decisive influence on postwar art in the fields of music, dance, painting, sculpture, and drawing. The friendships connecting the five artists