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Katherine Bernhardt
Ice Cream (Chocolate and Pistachio) and Steaming Hot Coffee
- Estimate
- £20,000 - 30,000‡
£40,000
Lot Details
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
signed, titled and dated 'Katherine Bernhardt 2013 "Ice cream (chocolate + pistaciao) + Steaming hot coffee"' on the reverse
182.9 x 182.9 cm (72 x 72 in.)
Executed in 2013.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
'Dana Schutz and Katherine Bernhardt are among the liveliest American painters to emerge in this country in 15 years.' (Jerry Saltz, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Bad-Boy Artists? There Have Been, of Course. But the Art World Has Refused to Recognize Them', Vulture, 29 September 2015, online).
Provenance
Katherine Bernhardt
American | 1975Katherine 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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