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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Study for The Hidden Letter
Details
Kay Sage (1898-1963)
Study for The Hidden Letter
signed and dated 'Kay Sage '43' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
12 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (31 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1943
Study for The Hidden Letter
signed and dated 'Kay Sage '43' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
12 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (31 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1943
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
D. Hare (ed.), VVV Magazine, New York, March 1943, nos. 2-3 (illustrated p. 121).
J. Marcel, The History of Surrealist Painting, New York, 1960 (illustrated p. 310).
S. Robeson Miller, Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Surrealist Art of Kay Sage, Washington D.C., 1983, (microfilm reels nos. 2996-2888.)
J. D. Suther, A House of Her Own, Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, 1997 (illustrated).
S. Robeson Miller, Kay Sage, The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York, 2011, p. 47.
J. Marcel, The History of Surrealist Painting, New York, 1960 (illustrated p. 310).
S. Robeson Miller, Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Surrealist Art of Kay Sage, Washington D.C., 1983, (microfilm reels nos. 2996-2888.)
J. D. Suther, A House of Her Own, Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist, Lincoln, 1997 (illustrated).
S. Robeson Miller, Kay Sage, The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York, 2011, p. 47.
Exhibited
Milan, Palazzo Reale, The Other Half of the Avant-Garde, 1910-1940, Women Painters and Sculptors in Historical Avant-Garde Movements, February - April 1980; this exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Kulturhuset.
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