I Saw Three Cities.

[NNadir]

1944, Kaye Sage, American (1898-1963)

At the Princeton University Museum of Art.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How beautiful, my dear NNadir!

I am not familiar with this artist, but I love this work. I can't even say why...

Thank you!

[Tobin S.]

2. I like it too

I think it's the juxtaposition of the hard, precise geometric lines with the curvy, smooth, and I can't help but think creamy figure in the middle. It's kind of like coffee and chocolate- bitter and sweet but they go together oh so well. But there is that little deal with the orange sort of flag pole thing going up through the smooth, curvy thing. There is probably much more to the work than I am seeing, but I'm am looking through the perspective of a regular Joe.

[NNadir]

3. Kaye Sage was the wife and partner of the surrealist Yves Tanguy.

Both were pioneering artists.

The painting here is found in the Princeton University Art Museum, and our family visits the painting often. It's next to a Tanguy work, appropriately. (It's also very near Max Erde's Witch - not necessarily one of my favorite paintings - but one which apparently, according to my son stimulated his interest in art).

There apparently was a Kaye Sage retrospective out your way: LA County Museum, Kaye Sage, painter of doom, menace and post-apocalyptic dread.

I do not think I would describe Sage's work in the same way as the author of that piece did.

Her work is beautiful, hauntingly beautiful maybe, but to me the beauty invokes something transcendent, not doom, not dread.

Still, that said, her painting, "The Passage," painted in her very inconsolable grief after the sudden and unexpected death of Tanguy in Connecticut in the 1950's, is one of the very saddest paintings of which I know.

Kaye Sage committed suicide in 1963, leaving a note that said she simply wished to join her husband in death.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. seems biblical to me. the trinity. the horizon has a timeless quality.

the naked pole in the center, humanity?

I like it, not sure why. has peaceful quality above all the turmoil.

thanks for sharing it.