Katherine Bernhardt - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips

Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024

  • Provenance

    Canada New York, New York
    Private Collection
    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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Katherine Bernhardt

Dile Que Tu Mi Quieres

signed, titled and dated 'Dile Que Tu Mi Quieres 2020 Katherine Bernhardt' on the reverse
acrylic and spray paint on canvas​
198.2 x 182.9 cm (78 x 72 in.)
Executed in 2020.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 ‡

Sold for £69,850

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024