CARMEN HERRERA: THE PARIS PAINTINGS
Lisson Gallery, 2017, First edition, Unpaginated, 7 1/4" X 9 1/2", Saddle stitched wraps
Fine
Published on the occasion of TEFAF at the Park Avenue Armory, May 4-8, 2017
Herrera lived in Paris, immersing herself in the city’s dynamic postwar artistic community while frequently traveling to New York and Havana. This period marked a decisive shift in her practice, as she moved from biomorphic forms and fevered, gestural compositions to the rigorous geometric abstraction that would define her career for the next seven decades.
Extremely scarce