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Like other works by American Surrealist Kay Sage, I Saw Three Cities is at once realistic and mysterious. Presiding over the haunting, abandoned landscape seen here is a guardian whose fluid drapery and sinuous curves recall those of the ancient Greek statue Nike of Samothrace. Sage's sentinel lacks Nike's effervescence, however.
The piece is enigmatic, offering few clues to the identity or significance of the titular three cities. It depicts a grey sky and a windswept, beige landscape dotted with strange, geometric structures. A tall, structural form that is draped in a white cloth dominates the center of the painting.
I Saw Three Cities This painting is a desolate, geometric landscape dominated by a tall, cloaked guardian in the foreground. The human looking figure is composed of a central pole and swirling drapery.
I Saw Three Cities is a Surrealist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Kay Sage in 1944. It lives at the Princeton University Art Museum in the United States. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Landscape Painting and Me.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘I Saw Three Cities’ was created in 1944 by Kay Sage in Surrealism style.
Katherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963. A member of the Golden Age and post-war periods of Surrealism, she is mostly recognized for her artistic works, which typically contain themes of an architectural nature.
Object Details. painter. Sage, Kay 1898-1963. "Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections," Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2007, pg. 246. 1944. Control number. IAP 32040878. Type. Paintings. Medium. Oil on canvas. Owner/Location.
Kay Sage - I Saw Three Cities (1944) I love this artist, I recognized her style immediately. Her art always reminds me of a weird and surreal post apocalyptic world. 107K subscribers in the museum community. The Reddit Museum.
I Saw Three Cities by Kay Sage, 1944, via Princeton University Art Museum Her interactions with the Surrealists during the end of the 30s transformed Sage’s creative idiom, leading her to a new artistic identity.
The central figure in Sage’s I Saw Three Cities presides over the polygonal shapes below and brings to mind Nike of Samothrace, the famous Hellenistic statue housed at the Louvre in Paris. The painting captures the same sense both of movement and rigidity, along with mimicking the statue’s form.