Kay Sage (American, 1898–1963)
In the Third Sleep
INV-5323
Kay Sage (American, 1898–1963)1944
In the Third Sleep
Kay Sage (American, 1898–1963) →SurrealismModernismpaintingmodern and contemporary art
Date
1944
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
100.3 × 144.8 cm (39 1/2 × 57 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Friends of American Art Collection; Watson F. Blair Prize Fund
Kay Sage depicted a large, two-pronged structure resembling drapery, which rises straight up into the air from a ramp or dock that recedes into the distance at right and is punctuated by geometric and curvilinear forms. The striking canvas suggests the mystifying environs of a dreamscape, reflecting Sage’s fascination with the unconscious. In the mid-1930s, the artist lived in Paris and worked alongside French Surrealists, including Yves Tanguy, whom she married in 1940 after moving to New York at the outbreak of World War II. Painted in 1944, In the Third Sleep attests to her continued investigation of the otherworldly.
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