Bernardini

year	2009
artist	John Reardon
gallery	MMX Gallery

description

Profile of a strong, dark stallion with a gleaming coat and intricate harness, embodying both strength and grace…

'Bernardini' (March 23, 2003 – July 30, 2021) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2006 Preakness Stakes and Travers Stakes.

John Reardon created a portable studio of all-white walls and had the stallions stare into his lens as if they were movie stars.

One year, he went to photograph every major race, wherever it was run, anywhere in the world: he'd unfailingly find the story and tell it in a few startling frames - ever eclectic, ever hectic.

classification	Photograph
provenance	From the Artist's Estate
condition	New
mounted/framed	Unframed
print/paper type	Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Paper
COA/signed by artist	Gallery COA, Signed and stamped Certficate by John Reardon's Archives Director
editions
45.5 x 45.5 cm paper size, 38.5 x 38.5 cm image size (15 x 15 in) - Open Edition [$940] 76 x 76 cm (30 x 30 in) - Edition of 7 [$5,400] 100 x 100 cm (40 x 40 in) - Edition of 3 [$8,050]