Lot 71
  • 71

Kay Sage

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Description

  • Kay Sage
  • Third Paragraph
  • Signed Kay Sage and dated '53 (lower right); signed Kay Sage, titled "Third Paragraph", dated '53 and inscribed Woodbury, Conn. (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 39 by 31 7/8 in.
  • 99.1 by 81 cm

Provenance

Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of American Paintings, 1953, no. 116
Lincoln, Nebraska Art Association, Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1954, n.n.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 61st Annual American Exhibition: Painting & Sculpture, 1954, no. 128
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, 1954, no. 31, illus. in the catalogue
New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage, 1956, no. 1
New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage: Retrospective Exhibition, 1937-1958, 1960, no. 39, illus. in the catalogue
Waterbury, Connecticut, Mattatuck Museum (and traveling), A Tribute to Kay Sage, 1898-1963, 1965, no. 31
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (and traveling), Kay Sage, 1898-1963, 1977, no. 45, illus. in the catalogue

Literature

Dorothy Adlow, "Contemporary American Painting: Whitney Annual in New York, Final Show in Old Quarters" in The Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 1953, illus. 
Robert M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: Whitney Annual" in The New Yorker, vol. 29, no. 37 (October 31, 1953) mentioned pp. 83-85
Howard Devree, "Round-up and Solo: Whitney Opens Its Annual-One Man Shows and a Group" in The New York Times, October 18, 1953, mentioned p.X9
Robert M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: Windup" in The New Yorker, vol. 31, no. 17 (June 11, 1955) mentioned pp. 103-05
Emily Genauer, "Cubism, Sage, Leonid Lead New Art Shows" in New York Herald Tribune, January 8, 1956, illus. 
"Kay Sage" in France-Amerique (May 1960), illus. p. 19
Stephen Robeson Miller, The Art of Kay Sage, New York, 1983, no. 157