Study for "The Lapis", II. The Lapis in a Vertical Position, 1954

Not on View

Medium

watercolor with pen and ink on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.96 × 38.74 cm (12 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.1580

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: I. Rice Pereira / December 25 1954

text on image:
II / The Lapis in a vertical position / Man - God / Soul - Spirit
1. In order to see a vertical one must be in front of it.
2. Whatever is behind the vertical is obliterated. What is behind the vertical is "unknown."
3. Would it follow that the vertical activates the unknown - man and God?
4. Could we say that the first sensations of space is through a vertical perceptions?
(a) a vertical perception activates thinking and feeling
(b) what is still wrong with this picture is that it is an abstraction of 2 dimensions
the image is not translated as spherical and existing in space.

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. 25.

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. 202, no. 1361.