Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné of the Surrealist work of Kay Sage being prepared by Stephen Robeson Miller.
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Design for a Tarot card
Details
Kay Sage (1898-1963)
Design for a Tarot card
with an inscription by André Breton 'Kay Sage 1941' (in the sheet margin)
gouache and brush and pen and India ink on paper
image: 9 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (23.5 x 13.5 cm.)
Executed in 1941
Design for a Tarot card
with an inscription by André Breton 'Kay Sage 1941' (in the sheet margin)
gouache and brush and pen and India ink on paper
image: 9 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (23.5 x 13.5 cm.)
Executed in 1941
Provenance
André Breton, Paris.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.
Literature
S. Robeson Miller, Kay Sage, The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York, 2011, p. 41.
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