Carmen Herrera Art
Cuban, 1915-2022
Born May 30, 1915, in Havana, Cuba, Carmen Herrera was educated in Havana and Paris, studying art, art history, and architecture. In 1939 she married an American, Jesse Loewenthal. She moved to New York City, where she attended classes at the Art Students League and was a frequent visitor to the Whitney Museum of American Art. From 1948 to 1953, Herrera and Loewenthal lived in Paris, where she became associated with an international group of artists, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Herrera exhibited her work with them regularly and developed a distilled, geometric style of abstraction, reducing her palette to three colors for each composition and then to two. Herrera's hard-edged canvases emerged when Ellsworth Kelly, whose time in France overlapped with Herrera's, began producing his abstractions around the same time that Frank Stella began producing his famous black paintings.
Herrera's ascetic compositions, which prefigured the development of Minimalism by almost a decade, did not find a warm reception when she returned to New York in 1954, a time when Abstract Expressionism still reigned supreme. As both a woman and an immigrant, Herrera faced significant discrimination in the art world. Yet, she persisted and continued to paint for the next six decades, only rarely exhibiting her work publicly. Herrera worked almost every day in her studio, and her oeuvre demonstrated a disciplined but highly sophisticated exploration of color and form. As she once stated, "I believe that I will always be in awe of the straight line; its beauty is what keeps me painting." Since the late 1990s, Herrera has garnered increasing attention for her work, selling her first painting in 2004. The last significant museum presentation of Herrera's work in this country was a 2005 show at Miami Art Central, preceded only by a 1998 show of her black and white paintings at El Museo del Barrio and a 1985 show at The Alternative Museum, both in New York. Her first monographic presentation in Europe was held at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England; in 2009, she traveled to Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany. In the last decade, the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Tate Modern have all acquired works by the artist. She died at the age of 106, in New York, in 2022.(Biography provided by Latin Art Core)
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Artist: Carmen Herrera
Rondo (Blue and Yellow)
By Carmen Herrera
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition, Rondo (Blue and Yellow) (1965) by Carmen Herrera.
Fine Bone China
Edition of 250
Printed signature and edition details on verso
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2010s Contemporary Carmen Herrera Art
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Carmen Herrera, Rojo y Negro - Abstract Art, Minimalism, Hard-Edge, Signed Print
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Hamburg, DE
Carmen Herrera (Cuban, b. 1915)
Rojo y Negro, 1993
Medium: Screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions: 55.7 × 48 cm (21 9/10 × 18 9/10 in)
Edition of 200 + 25 A.P.: Hand-signed, numbered, ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Carmen Herrera Art
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Screen
Carmen Herrera, Untitled (NRW) - Lithograph in Color, Minimalism, Signed Print
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Hamburg, DE
Carmen Herrera (Cuban, b. 1915)
Untitled (NRW), 2017
Medium: Lithograph in colors, on 300g Velin d’Arches paper
Dimensions: 100 x 67 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Carmen Herrera Art
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Lithograph
Verde y Amarillo (Green and Yellow). Folder of 3 lithographs. Edition 4 of 4
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Miami, FL
Folder of three lithographs by Carmen Herrera published in an edition of twenty, plus eight artist's proof and four printer's proof. Each print is signed "Carmen Herrera" in the lowe...
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Iberic Plate
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Washington , DC, DC
printed signature and edition details on verso
custom artist box with printed signature
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carmen Herrera Art
Untitled (Red and White)
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph on wove paper
Edition of 500
Signed 'Carmen Herrera' and numbered on a gallery label affixed to the back of the print
Excellent, with minor residual framing marks visible ...
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Lithograph
Untitled, 2018
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Bristol, GB
Two Colour Silkscreen
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered on front
Pristine, no apparent condition issues
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carmen Herrera Art
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Verde y Rojo for Studio
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Bristol, GB
Silkscreen on hand torn Coventry Rag
Edition of 28
52.5 × 66 cm (20.7 × 26 in)
Signed and numbered on front
Mint
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Carmen Herrera Art
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Carmen Herrera, Untitled (Red and White), Abstract Art, Minimalism, Signed Print
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Located in Hamburg, DE
Carmen Herrera (Cuban, b. 1915)
Untitled (Red and White), 2011
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions: 11 1/2 × 8 in (29.3 × 20.3 cm)
Edition of 500: Signed, numbered, and dated...
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Untitled, Silkscreen, Abstract Artist, Geometric, Minimalism, Hard-Edge
By Carmen Herrera
Located in Hamburg, DE
Carmen Herrera (Cuban, b. 1915)
Untitled, 2018
Medium: Silkscreen in colors
Dimensions: 76.2 x 55.9 cm (30 x 22 in)
Edition of 50: Hand signed and numbered
Condition: Mint
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Carmen Herrera Art
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Screen
The Way
By Carmen Herrera
Located in New York, NY
2018
Lithograph in colors, on Velin d' Arches 300gm paper
Sheet: 39 2/5 x 21 1/10 in. (100.1 x 53.6 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered in pencil
Unframed, excellent condition
Category
2010s Minimalist Carmen Herrera Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Untitled
By Carmen Herrera
Located in New York, NY
2017
One-color lithograph on Velin d' Arches 300gm paper
Sheet: 39 2/5 x 26 2/5 in. (100.1 x 67.1 cm)
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered in pencil
Unframed, excellent condition
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2010s Minimalist Carmen Herrera Art
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Untitled (NRW)
By Carmen Herrera
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph print on Arches paper
Signed and numbered in pencil, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Published by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfale...
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2010s Carmen Herrera Art
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Lithograph
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