Study for "The Lapis", I. Image from Dream, 1954

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Medium

watercolor with pen and ink on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.48 × 39.37 cm (12 × 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.1579

Artists / Makers

I. Rice Pereira (artist) American, 1902 - 1971

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Inscription

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
1. circular island with oval Lapis lying flat
2. circular lake around an island
3. Lake surrounded by verdant trees
4. 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.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Pereira, I. Rice

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.