Katherine Bernhardt - New Now London Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • 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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Aphrodite Bottichelli

signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'APHRODITE Bottichelli 2006 Katherine Bernhardt PETRA DU ROMIOU' on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
152 x 122 cm (59 7/8 x 48 in.)
Painted in 2006.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £20,160

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Simon Tovey
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London
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London Auction 15 December 2020