Katherine Bernhardt - Wired: Online Auction London Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Counter Editions, Margate
    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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Toco Toucan Tocano

signed, numbered and dated 'Toco Toucan Tocano Katherine Bernhardt 2020 84/150' lower edge
lithograph on Somerset paper
76 x 60 cm (29 7/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2020, this work is number 84 from an edition of 150.

Estimate
£1,500 - 2,000 

Sold for £1,638

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Wired: Online Auction

Online Auction 22 - 29 April 2021