Representative work by Kay Sage
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Kay Sage

1898–1963 · American

Kay Sage created austere Surrealist landscapes filled with scaffolds, drapery, architectural frameworks and distant horizons. Her paintings use a restrained palette and precise perspective to produce spaces that feel abandoned after an unknown catastrophe.

Painting; poetry

Major Works

  • 1955Tomorrow Is Never
  • 1944I Saw Three Cities
  • 1942The Fourteen Daggers
  • 1940Danger, Construction Ahead
  • 1948Unicorns Came Down to the Sea
  • 1956Le Passage
  • 1950Small Portrait
  • 1954No Passing
  • 1949The Instant
  • 1944The Upper Side of the Sky

Interviews & Writing

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