Perspective: Kay Sage found love in Europe. So why does death haunt her paintings?
In Europe you learn that there is no such thing as innocence Confusingly, you may also fall in love.in Hartford, Conn., is one of the last paintings she made. Set in a gray no man’s land, made oppressive by distant haze, it has the austere beauty of an oracular riddle.
It shows … Well, what does it show? A kind of improvised screen made from panels set between tall posts. The structure resembles scaffolding and rises from a floor paved with gray slabs. Some of the panels are as flat and opaque as the slate-colored floor; others ripple with subtly colored fabrics. Over on the right, an obscured walkway leads back toward nothing .It’s all intentionally enigmatic. But also terrifyingly vacant.
Born in Albany, N.Y., in 1898, Sage turned 20 the year World War I ended. After studying art in Washington, she decided to continue her studies in Rome. In a letter to a friend, Sage innocently enthused from Europe that she had spent her life looking for “someone who was just as mad as I was, who could understand my fantastic imaginings.” And at last, she announced, she had found him: In 1925 she married a minor aristocrat — a prince, no less — named Ranieri di San Faustino.
Alas, Sage parted ways with the prince 10 years later. She moved to Paris in 1937, where she entered the surrealist circle of
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