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Katherine Bernhardt

Laundry Day

Estimate
HK$800,000 - 1,200,000
€97,400 - 146,000
$103,000 - 154,000
HK$2,142,000
Lot Details
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
signed, titled and dated '"Laundry Day" 2017 Katherine Bernhardt Katherine Bernhardt 2017' on the reverse
306 x 245 cm. (120 1/2 x 96 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2017.

Further Details

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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