[ad_1] At the age of 94, Giacometti was thin, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and Miss Herrera, with shoulder-length, bone-white hair, a gorgeous woman in a wheelchair, suffering from arthritis but still painting. How had she persevered after decades of obscurity? “I do it because I have to; It is a compulsion that also gives me pleasure.” …

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[ad_1] Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera, who had painted abstract geometric shapes in Paris and New York undetected for most of her long life, then rose to international fame when her canvases began selling at the age of 89, died Saturday in her London loft. Lower Manhattan, his home for 60 years. He was 106 years …

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