Katherine Bernhardt - Unbound: Online Auction New York Monday, October 21, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    CANADA, New York
    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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Couple in Love

signed, titled and dated "Couple in Love Katherine Bernhardt 2006" on the overlap
oil on canvas
47 7/8 x 35 7/8 in. (121.6 x 91.1 cm.)
Painted in 2006.

Estimate
$7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $5,625

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Unbound: Online Auction

Online 21 - 30 October 2019 | Bidding closes October 30th, 2pm EDT