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Property of a Private East Coast Collection

Kay Sage

I Walk Without Echo

Auction Closed

May 18, 01:03 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private East Coast Collection

Kay Sage

1898 - 1963

I Walk Without Echo



signed Kay Sage and dated '40 (lower left); signed again, titled, dated 1940 and inscribed 69 Washington Place N.Y.C. (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

25 ¼ by 21 ⅜ in. 64.1 by 54.4 cm.

Executed in 1940.


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美國東岸私人收藏

凱・薩吉

1898 - 1963年

《我悄然前行》


款識:藝術家簽名Kay Sage並紀年'40(左下);再次簽名、書題目、紀年1940並題款69 Washington Place N.Y.C.(內框)

油彩畫布

25 ¼ x 21 ⅜ 英寸;64.1 x 54.4 公分

1940年作

Tone Price Galleries, Los Angeles (acquired from the artist in 1941)
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr., Hillsborough, California (acquired from the above in 1941)
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut (a gift of the above in 1966)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired in 2013)
Acquired from the above in 2013 by the present owner

Edward Alden Jewell, "Diversified Show of Art Are Opened. Washington Artists Hang Their Work at Bignou Gallery," New York Times, 4 June 1940, p. 21

Stephen Robeson Miller, Catalogue Raisonné of Kay Sage’s Work, 1983, (unpublished manuscript), no. 35

Judith D. Suther, A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, 1997, p. 98

Stephen Robeson Miller, Kay Sage: Catalogue Raisonné, Munich, London and New York, 2018, no. P.1940.2, p. 111, illustrated in color

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Kay Sage: Paintings, 1940, no. 2

Los Angeles, Tone Price Galleries, Kay Sage Paintings, 1941 (not included in the checklist)

San Francisco, Museum of Art, Kay Sage: Paintings, 1941

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage Retrospective Exhibition, 1937–1958, 1960, no. 9, illustrated

Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut (and traveling), A Tribute To Kay Sage, 1965-66, no. 15

Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Kay Sage, 1898–1963, 1977, no. 16

Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, I Walk Without Echo: The Kay Sage Collection, 2007

Eugene, Oregon, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Masterworks on Loan, 2014

New York, David Zwirner and Nicholas Hall, Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art, 2018, n.p., illustrated in color