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

    apportfolioshop.com
    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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2020
stamped with the artist's name, collaborator and fabricator logos 'DISNEY ©Disney Katherine Bernhardt APPortfolio ©ARTOX GORUP LTD.' on the underside
hand painted dry brush on bronze
work 41 x 23 x 27 cm. (16 1/8 x 9 x 10 5/8 in.)
box 51 x 31 x 38 cm. (20 1/8 x 12 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)

Produced by APPortfolio in 2020, this work is number 65 from an edition of 80, and is accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity issued by APPortfolio, and a pair of white art handling gloves, all contained within its original box.

Estimate
HK$30,000 - 40,000 
€3,400-4,500
$3,800-5,100

Sold for HK$25,200

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Hin Hin Wong

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

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My Kawaii Valentine: Online Auction

Online Auction 14 - 22 February 2022