Carmen Herrera Paintings
A master of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes herrera creates symmetry asymmetry and an infinite variety of movement rhythm and spatial tension across the canvas with the most unobtrusive application of paint.
Carmen herrera paintings. Herrera s abstract works have brought her international recognition late in life. She was born in havana and has lived in new york city since the mid 1950s. Many of herrera s earliest paintings were created on round canvases. Buy original art worry free with our 7 day money back guarantee.
Core to carmen herrera s painting is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of colour. My quest she says is for the simplest of pictorial resolutions 2012. In this form the painting therefore has no frame as such but instead seems to frame itself through the quality of self containment that circular forms unlike rectangular forms are able to bring to the picture space. Born in havana in 1915 herrera was one of seven siblings.
She turned 100 in may 2015. Iberic 1949 many of herrera s earliest paintings were created on round canvases. Carmen herrera born may 31 1915 is a cuban american abstract minimalist painter. Having achieved success late in life she sold her first piece at the age of 89 she is today considered a major figure in geometric abstraction.
And she was deemed the find of a decade by the observer. Carmen herrera who sold her first painting at the age of 89 was mostly unknown and unseen until 2009 when a large scale survey of her work opened in the u k.