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KAY SAGE (1898-1963)

Lot 649
13.05.2023 19:30UTC -04:00
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ID 950003
Lot 649 | KAY SAGE (1898-1963)
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
KAY SAGE (1898-1963)

Red is Not a Bright Color in the Dark

signed and dated 'Kay Sage 58' (lower left); signed and dated again, titled and inscribed 'KAY SAGE 1958 "RED is NOT A BRIGHT COLOR IN THE DARK" Woodbury, Conn' (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

16 1/8 x 12 7/8 in. (41 x 32.7 cm.)

Painted in 1958





Provenance

Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist, 1958).

Franklin H. Kissner, New York (acquired from the above, 1960).

By descent from the above to the present owners.



Literature

S. Robeson Miller, Kay Sage: Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2018, p. 320, no. P.1958.4 (illustrated, p. 321).



Exhibited

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage: Exhibition of Paintings, Collages, Drawings, October-November 1958, no. 10.

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage Retrospective , 1937-1958, April 1960, no. 58.
Artist:Kay Sage (1898 - 1963)
Art style:Surrealism
Auction house category:Paintings
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