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Katherine Bernhardt
Swimmers, from Greenpeace 50 Years Print Portfolio
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- £1,000 - 2,000
£1,270
Lot Details
Lithograph in colours, on Somerset Velvet paper, the full sheet.
2022
S. 59.9 x 76 cm (23 5/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 24/175 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Counter Editions, Margate, unframed.
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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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