Study for "The Lapis", I. Image from Dream

1954

I. Rice Pereira

Associated Names
I. Rice Pereira

Artist, American, 1902 - 1971

The image shows concentric circular shapes with a central elongated oval. Varied shades of blue and green are used, giving the piece an abstract quality. Handwritten annotations and labels are present, connecting the shapes to concepts like "island," "lake," and "sky."
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • Women Artists from Washington Collections, University of Maryland, College Park, 1979

Bibliography

1957

  • Pereira, I. Rice. The Lapis. New York: George Wittenborn, 1957, p. 23.

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 201, no. 1360.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: I. Rice Pereira / 12/25/54
text on image:
Version No 2 12/25/54 / Image from dream 11/29/54
Lapis / Island / Lake / Verdant Earth / Sky
The image is in the depth of the mind

circular island with oval Lapis lying flat
circular lake around an island
Lake surrounded by verdant trees
Sky - ethereal and surrounding all
This picture cannot be translated in depth - the image is flat.
The sky cannot be experienced surrounding the earth.
In other words the earth cannot be expressed in Space-time.

Wikidata ID

Q64574784

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