Katherine Bernhardt - New Now London Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    LVH Art, London
    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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Cigarette

signed and dated ‘Katherine Bernhardt 2015’ on the reverse
acrylic and enamel paint on canvas
30.6 x 91.8 cm (12 x 36 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2015.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £11,875

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London Auction 12 December 2019