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The Sleep of Reason: A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online

KAY SAGE | CASSANDRA (I) FROM "LE JEU DE MARSEILLES"

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May 20, 04:15 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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KAY SAGE (1898 - 1963)

CASSANDRA (I) FROM "LE JEU DE MARSEILLES" 


Bears the signature Kay Sage and dated 1941 (upper right)

Gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper

13⅝ by 10¾ in. (34.6 by 27.3 cm)

Framed: 22½ by 19½ in. (57.3 by 49.2 cm)

Executed in 1941.

André Breton, Paris (acquired in 1941)

Elisa Breton, Paris (by descent from the above in 1966) 

Galerie 1900-2000, Paris (acquired in 2004)

Gallery of Surrealism, New York (acquired from the above in 2004)

Acquired from the above on November 24, 2004

Stephen Robeson Miller, Kay Sage, Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 2018, no. W.1941.6, illustrated in color p. 397