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IRENE RICE PEREIRA | GLORIA IN EXCELSIUS
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March 7, 05:39 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of John M. and Elly B. Beard
IRENE RICE PEREIRA
1907 - 1971
GLORIA IN EXCELSIUS
signed; titled and dated 1963 on the reverse
oil on canvas
Canvas: 50 by 40 in. (127 by 101.5 cm.)
Framed: 51¾ by 41¾ in. (131.5 by 106 cm.)
As an American abstract artist, poet and philosopher, Irene Rice Pereira played a significant role in the development of modern in America. She incorporated the principles of the Bauhaus school into her work, and her paintings were significantly influenced by contemporaneous intellectual thought.