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KAY SAGE (1898-1963)

Lot 417
20.11.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 20 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 417 | KAY SAGE (1898-1963)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
KAY SAGE (1898-1963)
Passionnément, pas du tout
signed and dated 'Kay Sage 61' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled '"PASSIONNÉMENT, PAS DU TOUT" Kay Sage 1961' (on the reverse)
metal, wood and rubber collage on cardboard in artist's frame
Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 ¼ in. (28.2 x 20.57 cm.)
Frame size: 18 ¼ x 15 ¼ in. (46 x 38.4 cm.)
Executed in 1961




Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1964).
Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, New York (acquired from the Estate of the above, 1995).
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2014, lot 202.
Acquired by the present owner, 2014.



Literature

S. Robeson Miller, The Art of Kay Sage, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 207.
J.D. Suther, A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1997, pp. 212-213.
S. Roberson Miller, Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York, 2011, p. 75.
S. Robeson Miller, Kay Sage: Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2018, p. 468, no. SRM 207 (illustrated in color, p. 469).



Exhibited

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Exhibitions of Objects—Collages, November 1961, no. 12 (illustrated).
New York, Kent Gallery, Dorothea Tanning & Friends, 2009, p. 78 (illustrated in color, p. 79).
New York, Heather James Fine Art, Women Surrealists in the Americas and Europe, May-July 2019.
Artist:Kay Sage (1898 - 1963)
Applied technique:Collage
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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