
Carmen Herrera(born 1915)Rojo y Negro (Red and Black)
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Deborah Ripley
Director
Carmen Herrera (born 1915)
Screenprint in colors on Lenox paper, signed in pencil, titled, dated and numbered 111/200 (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by Miami Press, Florida, with full margins.
16 1/8 x 13in (41 x 33cm)
sheet 22 x 19in (55.9 x 48.3cm)
Footnotes
Herrera's first graphic work. Victor Gomez, a fellow Cuban artist from Havana decided that despite Herrera's minority status as a Cuban woman working in relatively obscurity, that her talent deserved at least a mention. Affiliated with the Engraving Workshop of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), and founder and coordinator of the group "Nueve versiones del paisaje" (1976) when he left Havana to settle in Miami, Gomez was well-positioned to resume his career as a publisher and printer in the United States. Ironically, he recalls that the prints sat in a flat file for at least 15 years before finding buyers.