Artist: Katherine Bernhardt
Title: Hamburgers French Fries and Cigarettes
Size: 182.8 x 152.1 cm (71 7/8 x 59 7/8 in.)
Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Edition: Original
Year: 2014
Notes: Signed, titled and dated 'Katherine Bernhardt 2014 Hamburgers French fries + Cigarettes' on the reverse
About: 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. Provenance: China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles Private Collection Phillips, New York, 20 September 2016, lot 7 Acquired from the above by the present owner.Exhibited Los Angeles, China Art Projects, Katherine Bernhardt: Doritos and Diet Coke, 6 September-18 October 2014 Literature Katherine Bernhardt, Nicole Rudick, Dan Nadel, eds., Katherine Bernhardt, New York, 2017, no. 32, n.p. (illustrated). Exhibited: Los Angeles, China Art Projects, Katherine Bernhardt: Doritos and Diet Coke, 6 September-18 October 2014 Literature: Katherine Bernhardt, Nicole Rudick, Dan Nadel, eds., Katherine Bernhardt, New York, 2017, no. 32, n.p. (illustrated)