Katherine Bernhardt - My Kawaii Valentine: Online Auction Hong Kong Monday, February 14, 2022 | Phillips

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  •   “I guess that's my aesthetic: raw, stained, messy, using-your-hand-in-it art.”
    — Katherine Bernhardt

    • Provenance

      CANADA, New York
      Private Collection, USA
      Phillips, New York, 30 October 2019, lot 38
      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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Couple in Love

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

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
HK$120,000 - 180,000 
€13,600-20,300
$15,400-23,100

Sold for HK$151,200

Contact Specialist

Hin Hin Wong

Associate Specialist, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

+852 2318 2013

hinhinwong@phillips.com

My Kawaii Valentine: Online Auction

Online Auction 14 - 22 February 2022