Lost Record

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Artist Kay Sage (American, 1898–1962)

Title Lost Record

Date 1940

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Framed: 37 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (95.3 × 74.9 cm)

Credit Line Kay Sage Bequest, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 64.73

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Lost Record illustrates the Surrealist interest in picturing the subconscious and human imagination. Sage’s mysterious vista exists in an alternate reality or dreamscape. Sage was one of the first women artists officially accepted as a member of the Surrealist movement after her move to Paris in 1937. She painted Lost Record the year she married fellow Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy. The composition’s biomorphic forms and indeterminate landscape reveal his stylistic influence. Sage selected Lost Record to be featured in her first solo exhibition, held in 1940.

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"Lost Record | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=64.73