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Katherine Bernhardt
Swatch Watch Lite-blue
- Estimate
- $5,000 - 7,000
$11,430
Lot Details
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
signed, titled and dated "Swatch Watch Lite-blue Katherine Bernhardt 2009" on the reverse
19 7/8 x 20 in. (50.5 x 50.8 cm)
Executed in 2009.
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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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