#art, Featuring the «Forgotten» Surrealist, Artist Kay Sage…

Of course, for the Surrealists it was easy to forget a woman since they were all macho, macho men… So, here is what I have found out about Kay Sage, one that was never taught to me at uni either…

Kay Sage, Albany, New York, (1898–1963), North American Surrealist painter and poet. She is known for her haunting, architectural dreamscapes. Sage studied art in Rome in the 1920s, later moving to Paris where she became associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1940, she married fellow Surrealist Yves Tanguy, and the couple relocated to the United States during World War II.

Sage’s mature works are characterized by vast, desolate landscapes filled with scaffold-like structures, draped forms, and monumental architectural elements that convey themes of isolation, waiting, and melancholy. Unlike the biomorphic imagery of many Surrealists, her style leaned toward the geometric and architectural.

After Tanguy’s sudden death in 1955, Sage’s work became even darker, marked by a profound sense of grief and emptiness. Struggling with depression and declining eyesight, she took her own life in 1963.

Since, of course, she was usually overshadowed by her male contemporaries, she is now recognized as one of the most important women of Surrealism.

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