This important catalogue offers the first sustained examination of Herrera’s early career from 1948 to 1978, which spans the art worlds of Havana, Paris, and New York. Essays consider the artist’s early studies in Cuba, her involvement with the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in post-war Paris, and her groundbreaking New York output, as well as situate her work in the context of a broader Latin American avant-garde art.
An essay by Dana Miller on Herrera’s New York work of the 1950s through the 1970s, when Herrera was arriving at and perfecting her signature style of hard edge abstraction, is available to read below. The catalogue also includes essays by Serge Lemoine, Gerardo Mosquera, and Edward J. Sullivan, as well as an illustrated chronology by Mónica Espinel.