Kay Sage

Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1952)

Josephine Sprague Taylor, Spain (acquired from the above in 1956)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 1 November 1978, lot 66 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage, 1952, no. 10

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1952-53, no. 115

Bloomfield Hills, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, First Biennial Exhibition: American Painting, Sculpture, 1953, no. 41 

Rome, Galleria dell’Obelisco, Kay Sage, 1953, no. 16 (dated 1952)

Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset, Kay Sage, 1953

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Woman in the World of Man: Three Women Painters—Irene Rice Pereira, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, 1954

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, 1954, no. 26

Lincoln, University Galleries, University of Nebraska and Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Fifth Annual Exhibition, 1955

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 215, p. 284; p. 285, illustrated in color

Fairfield Porter, “Reviews and Previews: Kay Sage,” ARTnews, vol. 51, no. 4, Summer 1952, p. 82

James Thrall Soby, “The Fine Arts: Whitney Annual,” Saturday Review, vol. 35, no. 49, 6 December 1952, pp. 60 and 62; p. 61, illustrated

James Thrall Soby, “The Fine Arts: Double Solitaire,” Saturday Review, vol. 37, no. 36, 4 September 1954, pp. 29-30, illustrated 

Helen Mary Hayes, “Life and Motion Permeate Annual Art Association Show,” Lincoln Evening Journal, vol. 88, no. 59, 28 February 1955, p. 7

Stephen Robeson Miller, “The Surrealist Imagery of Kay Sage,” Art International, vol. XXVI, no. 4, September-October 1983, fig. 25, p. 44, illustrated

Judith D. Suther, A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, 1997, p. 142

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.1952.2, p. 268; p. 269, illustrated in color