Carmen Herrera obituary

Cuban-American painter and sculptor who concentrated on goemetric abstraction and whose big break came at the age of 89Though the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, who has died aged 106, spent 70 years refining her painting style into a severe yet seductive form of geometric abstraction, her pioneering work remained largely unrecognised by the art world until she was in her early 90s. From thereon, however, it received popular acclaim, with myriad museum exhibitions dedicated to the artist&r