In-text plate (folio 16) from 21 Etchings and Poems

Irene Rice PereiraWW-1960-M008905

1960·Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 14 etchings (six with aquatint, four with engraving, one with drypoint), two aquatints, two engravings, two drypoints, and one photogravure·plate: 13 13/16 × 11 3/4" (35.1 × 29.8 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1960
Medium: Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 14 etchings (six with aquatint, four with engraving, one with drypoint), two aquatints, two engravings, two drypoints, and one photogravure
Dimensions: plate: 13 13/16 × 11 3/4" (35.1 × 29.8 cm); page: 19 11/16 × 16 7/8" (50 × 42.8 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Irene Rice Pereira

Artist

Irene Rice Pereira

Painting

Irene Rice Pereira was an American painter and printmaker whose abstractions combined geometric precision with luminous color fields, often incorporating translucent layers and linear structures inspired by light refraction and spatial illusion. Working primarily in oils and gouache from the 1930s onward, she developed a vocabulary of intersecting planes and soft gradations that distinguished her from contemporaries in the American abstract movement. Her investigations into the relationship between geometry, optics, and spiritual experience resulted in compositions that oscillate between mathematical rigor and atmospheric dissolve.

Chelsea, MA, USA

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