Viewing page 1 of 7

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 CIrcle 5-8900 Cable: Modernart 

No. 99
FOR RELEASE:
Friday, September 17, 1965

PRESS PREVIEW:
Thursday, September 16, 1965
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

KAY SAGE TANGUY BEQUEST SHOWN AT MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Thirty-six works of art selected from a group of nearly 100 bequeathed in 1963 to The Museum of Modern Art at 11 West 53 Street, New York, by the American painter, Kay Sage Tanguy, will be on exhibition in the Museum's Recent Aquistions Gallery from September 17 through November 28. In addition, several works previously given by Mrs. Tanguy will be shown, along with her own painting, "Hyphen," purchased by the Museum in 1995. The exhibition was directed by Miss Sara Mazo,
Assistant Curator of the Museums Collections. 

In addition to works of art from her own collection, Kay Sage Tanguy bequeathed a generous sum of money to the Museum for the purchase of contemporary art. This is the largest unrestricted purchase fund that the Museum has ever received.

Like many other artisit, Kay Sage was an enthusiastic collecter. She and her husband, Yves Tanguy, acquired the work of their friends and colleagues in Europe in the 1950s and they were chiefly of Surrealist persuasion. Later the work of friends in America was added. The present exhibition contains paintings by Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Jean Hélion, René Margitte, Wolfgang Paalen, as well as Yves Tanguy; collages and assemblages by André Breton, Joan Miró and Kay Sage; a sculpture by Aexander Galder; and drawings by Delvauz, Frederick Kisler, André Masson and Tanguy.

One of Kay Sage Tanguy's favorite paintings was the Magritte "Protrait" of 1935, a famous work by the Belgian artist which she gave to the Museum in 1956. This painting had been lent by its previous owner to the Museums exhibition [[underlined]] Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism [[/underlined]] in 1936. Two other Belgian works are included, the Delvaux oil of 1938, "The Encounter," and his large, highly-finished drawing done in 1947. 

(more)