Katherine Bernhardt - Desktop: Online Auction London Wednesday, April 15, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Description

    Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.

  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the artist and CANADA, New York
    Paddle8, online, 27 February 2017
    Acquired at the above sale 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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Untitled

acrylic and watercolour on paper
70.7 x 100 cm (27 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2016.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £6,875

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Desktop: Online Auction

Online Auction 15 - 23 April 2020