My Turn to Speak
What I think doesn't matter.
What I say does.
What I believe I keep to myself,
and what I know I keep quiet.
- Kay Sage -
I was born in 1898 in Albany, New York. My parents - a New York Senator, Henry Manning Sage and my mother Anne Wheeler Ward Sage divorced when I was a child. I had a older sister Anne Sage who died of tuberculosis. I've lived in New York, San Francisco, and abroad in Europe...mainly Italy. I had love at first sight. I married Prince Ranieri di San Faustino in 1925. Our marriage ended in 1935 and during those 10 years of marriage, I didn't create much art. In 1934, I met T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and became inspired by Vorticism. I had love at first sight a second time with Yves Tanguy and we were married in Reno, Nevada in 1940. We bought a pale yellow farmhouse in Woodbury and divided the barn into studios. Yves died suddenly in 1955 and I withdrew from society. I tried to commit suicide four years later by overdosing. I didn't succeed. I couldn't paint anymore when I lost my eyesight. I finally ended my life in 1963 by shooting myself in the heart.
Exhibitions:
1936, Galleria del Milione in Milan
1938, Salon des Surindependants in Paris, France
1940, Matisse Gallery
1947-1948, John Herron Art Museum in Indianapolis, IN - 60th annual exhibiton "Contemporary American Paintings"
1954, Wadsworth Atheneum in Harford, CT -joint exhibition with husband Yves
1960, Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York - Retrospective Show
