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When Key Sage returned to America in 1939 she had already planned with the approval of Yvon Delbos, French Minister of Education, a series of one-man shows in New York for artists working in Paris. Contributions and proceeds from sales were to be used to assist artists in France who were involved in the crisis of World War II. Yves Tanguy came to this country with the authorization of the French Government to inaugurate this series of exhibitions with his first one-man show in New York. Jean Hélion's was the second show of this series.

A memorial exhibition of Key Sage's paintings and drawings will be held at the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, this year. It will be shown thereafter at the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, and at Williams and Vassar Colleges.

James Thrall Soby, Chairman of the Museum's Committee on the Museum Collections, writes:

"In the house at Woodbury, Connecticut, which Yves and Kay Tanguy bought toward the end of World War II, there were many works of art. A few were by them but most were by friends and colleagues, chiefly of surrealist persuasion... It delighted both Tanguys to remember that the house had once been the village poorhouse. They had painted it white throughout the interior, yellow outside, and there were two handsome barns in back which they used as studios.... It was apparent that Kay Tanguy was the collector in the family. At the very end of her life she talked like an excited schoolgirl about some small pre-Columbian sculptures she had bought in New York. She constantly acquired rare books and had them elaborately bound.... Of all the works here show Kay preferred the Magritte 'Portrait'.... She liked almost equally the Miró, the Ernst, Breton's 'Poem-Object,' the two works by Delvaux and - naturally -everything Yves had painted."


Photographs, checklist and additional information available from Elizabeth Shaw, Director,   Department of Public Information, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, N. Y. 10019. CIrcle 5-8900.