Irene Rice Pereira (Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1902 – Marbella, Spain, 1971) was an American abstract artist, known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and Lyrical Abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school. Pereira was forced to begin work in her teens as a secretary to support her family after her father's death. In 1927, she enrolled in night art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1931, she travelled to Europe and North Africa to further her painting studies and she studied with Amédée Ozenfant in Paris. In 1935 Pereira became one of the founders and first instructors at the Design Laboratory, a school patterned after the Bauhaus school.
[Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 76.83 cm]
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