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Katherine Bernhardt
Virus Summer
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- HK$600,000 - 900,000€69,500 - 104,000$76,900 - 115,000
HK$1,143,000
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acrylic and spray paint on canvas
signed, titled and dated ‘“ViRUS SUMMeR” 2020 Katherine Bernhardt’ on the reverse
198.5 x 182.6 cm. (78 1/8 x 71 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2020.
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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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