Wise Kay

Katherine Wise Flax known under the name of Wise Kay , born the June 25th 1898 with Albany, New York, dead the January 8th 1963, is a surrealist painter American.

Biography

Second girl raised within a rich person family, it passes most of her childhood to travel to Europe with her mother considered to be a free spirit.

With the beginning of the year 1920, Kay Sage settles with Rapallo in Italy and follows studies of arts to Rome. In 1924, it meets and marries Prince Ranieri di San Faustino. After ten years of a fashionable life that it will compare later with a “stagnant marsh”, it leaves her husband to appease his artistic ambitions first.

Kaye Sage settles with Paris. Interested by the surrealist , it renâcle however to attend them, the group having all appearances of a “club of boys”.

Present at the International exhibition of the Surrealism to the Gallery from the Art schools, in Paris, in January 1938, its tables are noticed by André Breton and Yves Tanguy. This last the meeting and a durable connection starts.

To the beginning of the Second world war, Kay Sage goes back to the United States and takes steps in order to obtain visas for many artists remained in France. Yves Tanguy, reformed, joined it in New York. They marry in Reno, Nevada on August 17th, 1940 and settle in Woodbury, Connecticut.

From now on, the couple settles in Woodbury in Connecticut; they work one beside the other in contiguous workshops. Woodbury becomes a meeting place for French artists in exile during the second world war. Kay Sage multiplies the personal exposures through the United States but more particularly in Boston, New York and San Francisco.

Yves Tanguy dies brutally into 1955 of a brain hemorrhage.

Kay Sage forsakes little by little painting. It spends much time to write and is devoted almost exclusively to the development of the catalog of the reasoned work of Yves Tanguy. A few days before the publication of this catalog, Kay Sage commits suicide on January 8th, 1963 in its house of Woodbury of a ball of revolver.

Ashes of Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage were widespread in bay of Douarnenez by the galerist Pierre Matisse.

Works

1938 “ has Little Later ”
1939 “ My Room Has Two Doors ”
1939 “ This Morning ”
1940 “ Danger, Construction Ahead ”
1942 “ Margin off Silence ”
1942 “ The Fourteen Daggers ”
1944 “ From Another Approach ”
1944 “ I Saw Three Cities ”
1944 “ In the Third Sleep ”
1944 “ The Upper Side off the Sky ”
1947 “ Ring off Iron, Ring off Wool ”
1949 “ Urgent The ”
1950 “ The Morning Myth ”
1950 “ Small Portrait ”
1951 “ Men Working ”
1951 “ Tomorrow for Example ”
1951 “ Unusual Thursday ”
1952 “ One the Contrary ”
1953 “ Third Paragraph ”
1954 “ No Passing ”
1955 “ Tomorrow is Never ”
1956 “ the Passage ”

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