Danger, Construction Ahead

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Art Gallery at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA).

Briefly about the painting:

Preparing for the large exhibition at the New York Gallery of Pierre Matisse (the younger son of H. Matisse), Sage created her most ambitious, in the opinion of art historian Stephen Robson Miller, surrealistic painting. Asymmetrically placed large front shapes emphasize the distance to the danger, while the narrow road over the desert landscape symbolizes the possibility of its approach. Another title of the work – “Construction on the threshold of 1940” confirms the drama of the composition. In that year, Sage and many other artists were forced to hastily leave Europe captured by the Nazis.