Carmen Herrera - Wired: Online Auction London Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | Phillips
  • Description

    Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.

  • Provenance

    Lisson Gallery, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • 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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Lot offered with No Reserve

Untitled

signed 'Carmen Herrera' on a gallery label affixed to the reverse
lithograph on wove paper
29.7 x 21 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Executed in 2011, this work is number 235 from an edition of 500.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £3,024

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Wired: Online Auction

Online Auction 28 October - 5 November 2020