Margin of Silence

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Albany Institute of History and Art (the USA).

Briefly about the painting:

The object depicted on the canvas is figurative and static; even the drape looks heavy and frozen. The dark background and the blue-violet fabric, enveloping the foreground figure, hints at the feeling of anxiety in the one whose face the viewer does not see. The poetic names of many works by Kay Sage, including this one, only reinforce the mood of psychological devastation, expressed by the combination of geometric and soft forms, as if this is the last relic left by the civilization in barren landscapes.