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...Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about a half-century ago, Kay left Albany for Italy when she was only three. In the '20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed by Tanguy, to whom she was married a year later. Today the two artists live in a pale yellow farmhouse near Woodbury, Conn, and paint in the barn...
...Tanguy's half of the barn is as neat as an operating room. In it he does pictures of deserts strewn with bones, buttons, needles, nuggets, varicolored eggs and an occasional cactus-all impeccably painted. One such canvas hung in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. Its dramatic title, Mama, Papa Is Wounded!, bore no discernible relation to the objects represented...
Besides witches, whirligigs and a nine-foot Totem of Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...instant I felt it I wanted to own it." With her new-found knowledge Peggy opened a gallery in London, cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." Among her first exhibitors were Arp ("He served me break fast every morning"), Kandinsky ("So jolly and charming, with a horrid wife"), and Yves Tanguy ("He had . . . beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place...
Shown with other surrealists--perhaps Ernst, Tanguy, or Tchelitchew--the faults would be far less obvious, and the imaginative and fastidious qualities of Dali's art would emerge. Here, his miniaturist style seems fussy, his conceptions both bizarre and trivial, his composition crowded, and his symbols--crutches, telephones, and flabby amorphous heads--typed and repetitious...