Lot 178: KAY SAGE | Minutes #8 (recto verso)

pencil and watercolour on paper - recto
watercolour on paper - verso

24.1 x 16.5 cm; 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.

pencil and watercolour on paper - <em>recto<br /></em>watercolour on paper - <em>verso</em>

It has not been possible to see the upper edge. Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount along the upper edge.There are a few tiny spots of foxing to the background. There is a small flattened crease to the centre of left edge (only visible in rakling light). This work is in very good original condition.
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Ithaca, Cornell University Museum, Cornell Collects: a celebration of American Art from the collections of alumni and friends, 1990, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue p. 70
Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, illustrated in the catalogue p. 20, listed p. 37
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 122

Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
Estate of Franklin H. Kissner, New York (and sold: Christie's, New York, November 17, 1988, lot 212)
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt