Lot 112: Kay Sage (1898-1963)

Kay Sage (1898-1963)
The Seven Sleepers
signed, dated and dedicated 'à Germaine et Marcel, mes amis Kay Sage '47' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted in 1947

New York, Julien Lévy Gallery, Paintings by Kay Sage, October - November 1947, no. 3.
Waterbury, Connecticut, Mattatuck Museum, Exhibition of Connecticut Contemporary Artists, May - June 1948.
Rome, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Kay Sage, April 1953, no. 4.
Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset, April 1953.
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, August - September 1954, Part II, no. 7.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surréalisme. Sources, histoire, affinités, 1964, no. 281 (illustrated).

'Review of the Connecticut Contemporary Artists. Exhibition at Mattatuck Museum' in The Waterbury Republican, May 1948, illustrated.
S. Robeson Miller & K. Sage, The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York, 2011, section for 1947, p.55.
D. Marchesseau, Yves Tanguy, Paris, 1973, illustrated p. 67.
G. Durozoi, Histoire du mouvement surréaliste, Paris, 1997, p. 381 (illustrated).

Marcel and Germaine Duhamel, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1992.