PEREIRA I RICE The Lapis

Sale 2195 - Lot 221

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

PEREIRA, I. RICE. The Lapis. 10 lithographed images, numerous diagrams in color, and a separate suite of 5 watercolors, each signed and dated by pereira, measuring 311x386 mm; 12 1/4x15 1/4 inches, sheets, no margins; title-page printed on handmade paper. Tall folio, printed cream boards, soiled, internally fine. New York: published by the artist, 1957

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number 13 of only 53 copies numbered and signed by pereira with the suite of original watercolors, and specially bound. From a total edition of 553. A beautiful work wherein the artist interprets a dream of a lapis lazuli stone monument through pictures and text that "show the contradictions between the experience of an inner image and the optical illusions of visual representation"--from the Introduction.