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Kay Sage (1898-1963)
Lot 1031

Kay Sage (1898-1963)

The World of Why

Closed13 November 2015

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USD 665,000

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Kay Sage (1898-1963)
The World of Why
signed, dated and dedicated 'Kay Sage July 12, 1958 for Ursie, with love' (lower left)
watercolor, brush and black ink and paper collage on paper
16 ¾ x 13 in. (42.5 x 33 cm.)
Executed on 12 July 1958

Gift from the artist to the present owner, July 1958.

Specialist note

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.