Dreamy Cars for Waterbury

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Kay Sage (1898-1963)
Dreamy Cars for Waterbury
signed and dated 'Kay Sage 52' (lower left); signed and dated again, titled and inscribed 'KAY SAGE 1952 "DREAMY CARS FOR WATERBURY" WOODBURY, CONN' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
10 ½ x 10 in. (26.7 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted in 1952

Provenance

Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York (1952).
Jeanne Reynal Sills, New York (acquired from the above, by 1954); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 1 December 1983, lot 166.
Private collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, July 2003.

Literature

F. Porter, "Reviews and Previews, Kay Sage," ARTnews, vol. 51, no. 4, summer 1952, p. 82.

Exhibited

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Kay Sage, April-May 1952, no. 14.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, August-September 1954, no. 29.

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Lot Essay

This work is recorded in Stephen Robeson Miller’s Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Surrealist Art of Kay Sage located at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.

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