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Carmen Herrera

Cuban / American • b. 1915

Biography

At the age of 101, Carmen Herrera is finally receiving long-deserved recognition for her arresting, hard-edge geometric compositions. Born in Cuba in 1915, Herrera has spent most of her life outside the island, permanently settling in New York in the mid-1950s. Herrera was formally trained as an architect at the Universidad de la Habana, and later completed studies at the Art Students League in New York from 1943 to 1945. During this time she became acquainted with key figures of postwar abstraction including Barnett Newman, whose work undoubtedly influenced Herrera's minimalist aesthetic.

Herrera's work is chiefly concerned with formal simplicity and experimentation with bold color. Through the use of sharp lines and stark color contrasts, she creates dynamic and technically sophisticated compositions that reflect movement, balance and symmetry.

Insights

Phillips set a new auction record for Carmen Herrera when Untitled (Orange and Black), 1956 sold for $1,179,000 in the November 2017 New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Phillips previously held the auction record for this artist when her 1965 work Basque sold for $437,000, more than three times the low estimate.
Carmen Herrera sold her first artwork at the age of 89 and has been celebrated with a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York in 2016 at age 101.
Her work is in numerous important collections and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum, New York, the Tate Modern, London, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

"I began a lifelong process of purification, a process of taking away what isn't essential."

Past Lots

250
Carmen Herrera
Rojo y Negro (Red and Black)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $3,302
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251
Carmen Herrera
Black and White
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $6,985
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132
Carmen Herrera
Untitled Estructura (Blue)
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $457,200
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240
Carmen Herrera
Red With White Triangle
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £5,334
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86
Carmen Herrera
Rojo y Negro (Red and Black)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $6,048
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172
Carmen Herrera
Blanco y verde (White and Green)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £8,820
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173
Carmen Herrera
The Way
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £9,450
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174
Carmen Herrera
Untitled (Red and White)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £3,276
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164
Carmen Herrera
Untitled
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $75,600
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45
Carmen Herrera
Noche Verde
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $567,000
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199
Carmen Herrera
Verde y Rojo for Studio
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,292
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28
Carmen Herrera
Stanzas
Estimate £280,000 - 350,000
Sold for £315,000
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143
Carmen Herrera
Untitled
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000
Sold for £69,300
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16
Carmen Herrera
Basque
Estimate $600,000 - 800,000
Sold for $1,603,000
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32
Carmen Herrera
Amarillo y Negro
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $630,000
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15
Carmen Herrera
Green and Orange
Estimate $2,000,000 - 3,000,000
Sold for $2,200,000
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30
Carmen Herrera
Aquila Verde
Estimate £450,000 - 650,000
Sold for £724,300
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73No Reserve
Carmen Herrera
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £3,024
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108
Carmen Herrera
Rojo y Negro (Red and Black)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $5,040
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187
Carmen Herrera
Untitled (NRW)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £3,250
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188
Carmen Herrera
Red with White Triangle
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £5,000
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38
Carmen Herrera
Amarillo "Uno"
Estimate $1,300,000 - 1,800,000
Sold for $1,220,000
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238
Carmen Herrera
Rojo y Negro (Red and Black)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $6,250
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26No Reserve
Carmen Herrera
Untitled (Red and White)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,750
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