Arlette Martin

ARLETTE MARTIN (b.1924) SUPERB FRENCH GEOMETRIARLETTE MARTC ABSTRACT PAINTING -

20th Century

"Geometric Abstract" by Arlette Martin (French, b.1924) signed lower right hand-side, gouache painting on card, unframed painting: 3.5 x 8.5 inches Finely painted original by the p...

"Geometric Abstract" by Arlette Martin (French, b.1924) signed lower right hand-side, gouache painting on card, unframed Painting: 3.5 x 8.5 inches Finely painted original by the p...

ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971) Abstract 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches Watercolor, gouache, and ink on black paper Signed lower right Framed by Bark BIO rene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept. She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together. In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more interested in writing poetry and, divorced from Brown in 1952, she married George Reavey, an Irish Poet...

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