Kay Sage

About

Katherine Linn Sage, known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet born into a wealthy family in Albany, New York, on June 25, 1898. She had a peripatetic childhood, spending time in Europe, and later lived in Italy where she married Prince Ranieri di San Faustino in 1925, feeling artistically stifled until she left him and moved to Paris in 1937. There, she was profoundly influenced by the International Surrealist Exhibition, particularly Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical paintings, prompting her to begin painting seriously in the Surrealist style. She married fellow Surrealist Yves Tanguy in 1940, and they settled in Woodbury, Connecticut, after fleeing war-torn Europe. Sage helped transport many Surrealist works to safety in America and became known for her architectural, illusionistic landscapes evoking mystery, entrapment, and the uncanny.

Surrealist with architectural motifs, precise illusionism, barren psychic landscapes in muted tones blurring realism and fantasy