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Kay Sage

Passionnement, Pas du Tout

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March 23, 02:38 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Kay Sage

1898 - 1963

Passionnement, Pas du Tout


signed Kay Sage and dated 61 (lower right); signed Kay Sage, dated 1961 and titled (on the reverse)

metal and wood collage on cardboard

31 by 23.5cm., 12¼ by 9¼in.

Framed: 46.5 by 38.5 cm., 18¼ by 15¼in.

Executed in 1961.

Estate of the artist
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1964)
Estate of Pierre Matisse, New York (acquired from the above in 1989)
Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, New York (acquired from the above in 1995)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 8th May 2014, lot 202)
The Collection of Daniel and Ariella Bitton (acquired in 2014)
Judith D. Suther, A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, 1997, pp. 212–13
Stephen Robeson Miller, Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York, 2011, p. 75
New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Your Move, Kay Sage: Exhibition of Objects—Collages, 1961, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue
Heather James Fine Arts, The Female Gaze, Women Surrealists in the America and Europe, New York, 2019, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Nice, Musée Matisse, Pierre Matisse un marchand d’art a New York, 2021, illustrated in colour in the catalogue