IRENE RICE PEREIRA | ASCENDING LIGHT

Honorable C. Douglas Dillon Collection
IRENE RICE PEREIRA
1907 - 1971
ASCENDING LIGHT

signed I.RICE PEREIRA (lower right) and titled Ascending Light (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
50 by 36 inches
(127 by 91.4 cm)

Condition Report:
The canvas is unlined and there is frame abrasion at extreme edges. There is scattered surface cracking and the work appears to be slightly dirty with scattered accretions. There are a few specks of loss in the dark blue pigment near bottom edge. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.

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Provenance:
LeMonde Gallery, New York

Sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 13, 1964. lot 85

Private collection (acquired at the above sale; sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 14, 1970, lot 38)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale