Carmen Herrera - Editions & Works on Paper New York Monday, October 24, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Artist Biography

    Carmen Herrera

    Cuban / American • 1915

    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.

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Property from an Important Private American Collection

199

Verde y Rojo for Studio

2019
Screenprint in colors, on Coventry Rag paper, with full margins.
I. 16 3/4 x 17 in. (42.5 x 43.2 cm)
S. 20 3/4 x 26 in. (52.7 x 66 cm)

Signed and numbered 22/28 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, New York (with their blindstamp), to benefit Studio in a School, New York, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $5,292

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 24 - 26 October 2022