Shivering Mountain

Mediums: oil, plywood.
Location: The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut (the USA).

Briefly about the painting:

Many artists, who worked in Paris and later in America in the 1930s and 1940s, including Ernst, used the egg motif as a repeating image. Surrealists L. Carrington, L. Fini and R. Varo reinforce the “alchemical identification of an egg with the creative abilities of a woman”. This motif, which Sage later refused, is present in several of her paintings, simplifying the strict geometry of her compositions. However, an egg lying in the corner of a deep aperture is just a detail. The viewer’s attention is drawn to the draped mysterious figure, first proposed by the artist in 1937 in the painting “Monolith”.