Study for "Third Paragraph"

1953

Kay Sage

Associated Names
Kay Sage

Artist, American, 1898 - 1963

This painting features a composition of vertical and diagonal shapes and lines in a structured arrangement. The abstract design resembles a series of standing walls or panels, with some pieces painted in shades of teal and brown, and the rest in gray, cream, and seafoam green. The tall vertical rectangles cast dark shadows onto the gray ground below. A pale-yellow object resembling a flag or cloth hangs to the left, connected to the ground by slender poles.
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On View

East Building Upper Level, Gallery E415

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of the artist [1898-1963], Woodbury, Connecticut; her estate; bequest 10 October 1963 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Kay Sage, Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, 1953, no. 18, as E tu, chi sei?

  • Kay Sage, Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris, 1953.

Bibliography

1982

  • Miller, Stephen Robeson. "The Art of Kay Sage." M.A. Thesis, Boston University, 1982: no. 155 as And You, Who Are You?, and no. 156 as Study for Third Paragraph, in the Stephen Robeson Miller research material on Kay Sage, 1898-1983; Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., microfilm reel no. 2888,

2018

  • Miller, Stephen Robeson. Kay Sage, Catalogue Raisonné. Munich, London, and New York, 2018: no. P.1953.1, 276, repro. 277.

Inscriptions

top of stretcher reverse: "Sketch for Third Paragraph" Kay Sage

Wikidata ID

Q46636021

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