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Kay Sage

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Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Kay Sage

(1898 - 1963)


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signed Kay Sage and dated 56-57 (lower right)

oil on canvas

28 ¾ by 21 ⅜ in.   73 by 54.2 cm.

Executed in 1956-57.

Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1960)

Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr., Hillsborough, California (acquired in 1960 and until at least 1965)

Byron Gallery, New York (acquired circa 1981)

Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage: Exhibition of Paintings—Collages—Drawings, 1958, no. 2 (dated 1957)

Lincoln, Nebraska Art Association, Sixty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1958, no. 115

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The 26th Biennial Exhibition, 1959, no. 157

Art Institute of Chicago, 63rd American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, 1959-60, no. 102, illustrated

The Newark Museum of Art, 1960

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage Retrospective, 1960, no. 51, n.p., illustrated

San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, The San Francisco Collector, 1965, no. 20, p. 26, illustrated (dated 1956)

Howard Devree, “Exotic Notes: Amazing Old West African Sculpture—Four Contemporary Painters,” The New York Times, 2 November 1958, p. XI3, illustrated (dated 1957)

The Art Quarterly, vol. XXII, no. 4, Winter 1959, p. 402, illustrated 

John W. Aldridge, “What Became of Our Postwar Hopes?: A Critic Appraises the Records Made by the Young Writers of the Forties,” The New York Times Book Review, 29 July 1962, p. 162, illustrated

Stephen Robeson Miller, “The Surrealist Imagery of Kay Sage,” Art International, vol. XXVI, no. 4, September-October 1983, fig. 30, p. 44, illustrated

Renée Riese Hubert, Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, & Partnership, Lincoln, 1994, pl. 3, illustrated in color; pp. vii and 179-81 

Judith D. Suther, A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, 1997, p. 143

Williams College Museum of Art, ed., American Dreams: American Art in the Williams College Museum of Art, New York, 2001, p. 186

Stephen Robeson Miller; Jessie Sentivan, ed., Kay Sage: Catalogue raisonné, Munich, London and New York, 2018, no. P.1957.5, p. 312; p. 313, illustrated in color