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Kay Sage

The Surrealist artist Kay Sage was born into a well-established family in upstate New York. In 1920, Sage attended art school in Italy and she married Prince Ranieri di San Faustino. However she had limited time to paint. Through meeting and encouragement of American poet Ezra Pound and German sculptor Heinz Henghes, she revisited painting, but this time in abstraction. 

In 1937, after divorcing, Sage moved to Paris and became involved with the European Surrealists. The following year she met the French Surrealist and future husband Yves Tanguy, whose work affected her greatly. During World War II she formed "The Society for Preservation of European Culture" to organize exhibitions in the U.S. in her goal to secure safe passage for artists to New York. 

Sage’s unique style combined architectural forms, complex scaffolding and post-apocalyptic structures against backgrounds of vast and endless horizons. She depicted biomorphic forms composed of drapery juxtaposed with geometric figurations, sharply contrasting darkness and light and evoking feelings of intense stillness and mystery. Her work ‘I Saw Three Cities’ is at once realistic and mysterious. Presiding over the haunting, abandoned.

Image 1: Kay Sage, I Saw Three Cities, 1944, Princeton University Art Museum

Image 2: Kay Sage, I Walk Without Echo, 1940

Image 3: Kay Sage, South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow, 1957, Weinstein Gallery

Image 4: Portrait of artist Kay Sage, Weinstein Gallery

[artbrain]

"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲! 𝐖𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐲𝐞𝐭. 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬" —𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠 Digital painting | Prints> Message Me! #biomorphicart #biomorphic #volumemetrics #shadowandlight #surrealistic #surrealismartcommunity #surrealist #cubism #cubisme #biomorphicabstraction #biomorphicart #biomorphism #metabolismo #metabolisme #henribergson #rodin #henrymoore #aliciapenalba #bennicholson #barbarahepworth #yvestanguy #alexandercalder #kaysage #isamunoguchi #gaudiarchitecture #gaudi #kapoor #jeanarp #hollyberry #hollytree (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmqyRQzOBy5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ARTIST APTITUDE QUIZ #8

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In the Third Sleep, Kay Sage, 1944, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Kay Sage, an American expatriate living in Paris, first encountered Surrealism at the 1938 Exposition internationale du surréalisme and was tremendously inspired by the works of Giorgio de Chirico. After becoming involved with the French artist Yves Tanguy, whom she married in 1940, she became a member of the circle of Surrealists that formed around André Breton. In the Third Sleep depicts a large bipartite shape resembling drapery, which improbably rises straight up into the air from a ramplike structure that crosses an otherwise barren landscape. The striking composition suggests the mystifying forms and spaces of dream worlds, reflecting the Surrealists’ fascination with the unconscious. Friends of American Art Collection; Watson F. Blair Prize Fund Size: 100.3 × 144.8 cm (39 1/2 × 57 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/53237/

[arrogant-hair]

Kay Sage 1942.

[concreteanddeadbeats]

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[theandrewrose]

Some #slapsticker #art of the #artist #Kaysage #artwork #marker #andrewtheroseartist #markerart #anysquared (at AnySquared) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUN6SvUFdte/?utm_medium=tumblr

[abelkia]

Yves Tanguy & Jacques Prévert are building sandcastles in a Parisian street (1925) #yvestanguy #jacquesprevert #paris #1920s #1925 #sandcastles #poetry #poete #poesie #surrealism #symbolism #cinema #screenwriter #scenariste #ecrivain #peinture #peintre #painting #giorgiodechirico #andrebreton #french #france #usa #american #kaysage

[alackofcolor623]

I really enjoyed sitting and taking a few long exposure shots at the art museum. • In The Third Sleep by Kay Sage • • #artinstituteofchicago #chicagoartmuseum #kaysage #oiloncanvas #inthethirdsleep #longexposure #oilpainting #art #artoftheday #longexposure_shots #longexposures #shadows #longexposureoftheday #painting #chicago #chicagoart #americanartist (at The Art Institute of Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7UEJn5BwXo/?igshid=x9dw5krsvwqv

[cherrypoppamc]

-LOVE·MONEY·MUSIC- · Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) · “Tomorrow Is Never” (1955) Artist: Kay Sage Oil on canvas. Fck. Wit. Me. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByHA7uqA_UX/?igshid=16ber2w9hmy8q

[yourdisappointedarms]

"I have said all that I have to say. There is nothing left for me to do but scream." #kaysage #american #artist #poet #surrealist #deathanniversary #mentalhealth (at Summa St. Thomas Hospital) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsX7l8pgAAI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pkrvydq4zykd

[fashionistaru]

#goodnightandsweetdreams with Le Passage by #KaySage, 1956 #historyofart #beautyofart #contemporaryart #nightmood #todaymood #womanportrait (at Moscow, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp7sWweBR_z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=apr9ut9pv5eg

[aic-american]

In the Third Sleep, Kay Sage, 1944, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Kay Sage, an American expatriate living in Paris, first encountered Surrealism at the 1938 Exposition internationale du surréalisme and was tremendously inspired by the works of Giorgio de Chirico. After becoming involved with the French artist Yves Tanguy, whom she married in 1940, she became a member of the circle of Surrealists that formed around André Breton. In the Third Sleep depicts a large bipartite shape resembling drapery, which improbably rises straight up into the air from a ramplike structure that crosses an otherwise barren landscape. The striking composition suggests the mystifying forms and spaces of dream worlds, reflecting the Surrealists’ fascination with the unconscious. Friends of American Art Collection; Watson F. Blair Prize Fund Size: 100.3 × 144.8 cm (39 1/2 × 57 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/53237/

[arrogant-hair]

Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage.

[concreteanddeadbeats]

🌸 New tee/ summer sale continues 🌸 every t shirt comes with a free zine🌸 click link in bio and enter LIPSETT for 30% off at checkout #tshirt #streetphotography #photography #zine #garms #tees #collage #art #londonfashion #londonart #arthurlipsett #romarebearden #streetwear #londonphotography #marlenedumas #kaysage #grime #jonasmekas #stanbrakhage #undertheskin #hiphop #blackmetal #alien #hrgiger #rainbow #tattoo #graffiti #cemetery #deftones #angel #eartheater #summer #londonsummer #photography #streetphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RieQpFZ-4/?igshid=yw1b4cd56fk9

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Kay Sage - Le Passage (1956)