Katherine Bernhardt - New Now & Design Hong Kong Sunday, November 26, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels
    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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Pizza Pizza

signed, titled and dated 'Katherine Bernhardt 2020 "PIZZA PIZZA"' on the reverse
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
198.5 x 183 cm. (78 1/8 x 72 in.)
Executed in 2020.

Estimate
HK$250,000 - 450,000 
€29,300-52,700
$32,100-57,700

Sold for HK$228,600

Contact Specialist

Angela Tian
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now & Design Sale
20th Century & Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
+852 2318 2058
AngelaTian@phillips.com

New Now & Design

Hong Kong Auction 26 November 2023