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

1954

I. Rice Pereira

Artist, American, 1902 - 1971

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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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