Carmen Herrera - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | Phillips

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  • 'I began a lifelong process of purification, a process of taking away what isn’t essential.' —Carmen Herrera

    • Provenance

      Lisson Gallery, London
      Private Collection, Europe

    • Exhibited

      Belgium, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Liberated Subjects: Pioneers, 12 October 2014 – 24 January 2015, p. 74 (illustrated, pp. 75, 146, 154)

    • 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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143

Untitled

signed and dated 'Carmen Herrera 2012' lower right
acrylic and graphite on paper
70 x 100 cm (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2012.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for £69,300

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 29 June 2022