Kay Sage

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Kay Sage, 1922

Katherine Linn Sage (born June 25, 1898 in Albany, New York , † January 8, 1963 in Woodbury , Connecticut ), known as Kay Sage , was an American surrealist artist and writer. She was married to the French surrealist artist Yves Tanguy for the second time .

Life

Katherine Linn Sage was the second daughter of the wealthy Henry Manning Sage and his wife Ann. She spent a lot of time with her mother in Europe in her youth after her parents divorced. She studied at Corcoran Art School in Washington and then worked in an office in New York .

In early 1920 Kay Sage moved to Rapallo , Italy to study art in Rome . In 1924 she met Prince Ranieri di San Faustino and married him the following year. After ten years she gave up her glamorous life and got divorced to devote herself to art. She moved to Paris and got to know the surrealist movement there.

In 1936 her first solo exhibition of abstract paintings took place in Milan . In 1937 she met Yves Tanguy , with whom she began a relationship. In January 1938 she visited the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Georges Wildenstein's Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she was particularly impressed by Giorgio de Chirico's work .

At the beginning of the Second World War she returned to the United States and helped artist friends who were friends with organizing her departure. Yves Tanguy was one of them. They married in Reno on August 17, 1940 - it was their second marriage - and settled in their home in Woodbury, called "Town Farm", to which they attached their studios. That year she had her first American exhibition at the Pierre Matisse gallery in New York. “Town Farm” became a meeting place for exiled French artists. In January 1943 she exhibited in the "Exhibition of 31 Women" in Peggy Guggenheim's gallery Art of This Century . In 1954 Tanguy and Sage had a joint exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum .

In 1955, Yves Tanguy died of a stroke. The death of her husband hit Kate Sage deeply and plunged her into depression . Four years later, in 1959, she made her first suicide attempt. Her eyesight deteriorated, she gave up painting and made collages . In 1955 she wrote her autobiography China Eggs and devoted herself to the Catalog de l'œuvre raisonnée by Yves Tanguy. On January 8, 1963, shortly before the catalog was published, she committed suicide by shooting. The ashes of Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage were scattered in Douarnenez Bay by Pierre Matisse .

Kay Sage's estate is held in the Smithsonians Archives of American Art . Her work can be found in various US museums, including the Museum of Modern Art , the Art Institute of Chicago , Walker Art Center , the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC

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Like Max Ernst's wife Dorothea Tanning , Kay Sage came into surrealist circles through a love affair. More than her husband's painting style, she is influenced by de Chirico's isolated forms and the illusionistic perspectives in her early surrealist paintings. With their conspicuous monumentalization, they point to their own very constructive imagery, in which the magic unfolds exclusively from the objects themselves.

Works

  • A Little Later (1938)
  • My Room Has Two Doors (1939)
  • This Morning (1939)
  • Danger, Construction Ahead (1940)
  • Margin of Silence (1942)
  • The Fourteen Daggers (1942)
  • At The Appointed Time (1942)
  • From Another Approach (1944)
  • I Saw Three Cities (1944)
  • In the Third Sleep (1944) Fig.
  • The Upper Side of the Sky (1944)
  • Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool (1947)
  • The Instant (1949)
  • The Morning Myth (1950)
  • Small Portrait (1950)
  • Men Working (1951)
  • Tomorrow for Example (1951)
  • Unusual Thursday (1951)
  • On the Contrary (1952)
  • Third Paragraph (1953)
  • No Passing (1954)
  • Hyphae (1954)
  • Tomorrow is Never (1955)
  • Le Passage (1956) Fig.
  • Watching the Clock (1958) Fig,

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1936: Galleria del Milione, Milan
  • 1938: Salon des Surindependants in Paris
  • 1940: Matisse Gallery, New York
  • 1947/48: John Herron Art Museum in Indianapolis, Contemporary American Paintings
  • 1954: Wadsworth Atheneum in Harford, together with Yves Tanguy
  • 1960: Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, retrospective
  • 1965: A Tribute to Kay Sage , Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
  • 1977: Retrospective, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  • 2011: Joint exhibition with Yves Tanguy, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
  • 2012: In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States , Los Angeles County Museum of Art

literature

  • Jessie Sentivan et al .: Kay Sage - Catalog Raisonné . Prestel, New York 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-5785-0
  • Karoline Hille: Women's Games. Women artists in surrealism . Belser, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7630-2534-3
  • Judith D. Suther: A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist . University of Nebraska Press 1997, ISBN 0-80324-234-4

Web links and sources

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judith D. Sutherland: A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist , p 61 f
  2. ↑ warholstars.org , accessed 14 September 2010
  3. ↑ warholstars.com : Kay Sage, accessed 13 September 2010
  4. ^ Klaus Hammer: Artists in Surrealism . literaturkritik.de, No. 2, February 2010, accessed on September 14, 2010 .
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personal data
SURNAME Say, Kay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Say, Katherine Linn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany, New York
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1963
Place of death Woodbury