Katherine Bernhardt - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale - Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, New Jersey

  • Exhibited

    New York, The Hole, Early Man, November 13 - December 28, 2014

  • Artist Biography

    Katherine Bernhardt

    American • 1975

    Katherine Bernhardt, whether in her paintings or make-shift Moroccan rugs, is rapt by neons and geometries. The artist, who works in New York, takes an almost hasty-flick of a brushstroke that lands as a jagged architectural form — figures cut in space and in buzzing colors that leave a mental trace.

    Seemingly each month, multiple galleries, museums or art fairs across the world exhibit Bernhardt's large-scale fantasies and rug-centric installations, as seen in 2017 at Art Basel and with a solo retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth. "I think the best painters don't intellectualize their own art—they just make stuff," she says; but with sharks circling trash in the water in today's climate, as is depicted in Sharks, Toilet Paper and Plantains, it's not hard to see Bernhardt's deeper meanings. 

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Mr. Coffee and Pizza

signed, titled and dated "Katherine Bernhardt 2014 MR Coffee + Pizza" on the overlap
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 2014.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $22,500

Contact Specialist
Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York
+ 1 212 940 1250
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale - Afternoon Session

New York Auction 15 November 2017