Kay Sage - The Virtues of Rebellion New York Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Julien Levy Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1944)
    Collection Abbot Kimball, New York (1944-1972)
    Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 26, 1972, lot 184
    Helen Serger, la boetie, inc., New York (1972-1978)
    Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1978-1979

  • Exhibited

    New York, Julien Levy, Paintings by Kay Sage, October 3 – 31, 1944, no. 5
    New York, Helen Serger, la boetie, inc., Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints by 20th Century Masters, Fall 1973, no. 134
    New York, Helen Serger, la boetie, inc., Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints by 20th Century Masters: New Acquisitions, Summer 1974, p. 8 (illustrated)
    Dallas, Valley House Gallery, Surrealism in Art, May 7 – June 8, 1975 (illustrated, n.p.)
    New Brunswick, Rutgers University Art Gallery, Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947, March 5 – April 24, 1977, no. 133, p. 106 (illustrated)
    London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January 11 – March 27, 1978, no. 15.44, p. 399 (illustrated)
    Houston, The Menil Collection (temporary loan 2020-2021)

  • Literature

    Stephen Robeson Miller, Catalogue Raisonné of Kay Sage’s Work, 1983, no. 96 (unpublished manuscript)
    Renee Riese Hubert, Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism and Partnership, Lincoln, 1994, pp. 182, 184 (erroneously dated as 1949)
    Christine Battersby, "Just jamming: Irigaray, painting and psychoanalysis" in New feminist art criticism, Katy Deepwell, ed., Manchester, 1995, p. 133 (erroneously dated as 1947)
    Stephen Robeson Miller and Jessie Sentivan, ed., Kay Sage. Catalogue Raisonné, Munich, 2018, no. P.1944.3, p. 170 (illustrated, p. 171)

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Secret Voyage of a Spark

signed and dated "Kay Sage '44" lower left; inscribed and dated "Woodbury Conn. '44" on the stretcher
oil on canvas
10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (26.7 x 34.9 cm)
Painted in 1944.

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The Virtues of Rebellion