Katherine Bernhardt - 20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction New York Monday, July 17, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Paddle8, New York, December 22, 2016, lot 41
    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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Neopolitan Cream Milla Jovovich

signed, titled and dated "Neopolitan Cream Milla Jovovich 2007 Katherine Bernhardt" on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Painted in 2007.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $10,160

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20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction

17 - 26 July 2023