Making art together—Surrealist painters Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage
A new exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, New York, poses an interesting question: can two artists have a balanced, equitable marriage and each produce meaningful art without stepping on each other’s toes? During their lifetimes, Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage took pains to keep their art separate, insisting on separate galleries when their work was shown together in 1954. The current show is called Double Solitaire, an apt metaphor for the companionable rivalry that seemed to describe their life together. In fact, when you look at images from the exhibition, it can sometimes be difficult to guess which artist created which painting. An article in the New York Times explores some of the background of the artists’ relationship and compares the similarities and differences between their art. Unlike other artistic couples, these two seem to have been fulfilled by working side by side.
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