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Peter Doig
Study for "Guru" (Doty Boathouse)
- Estimate
- £10,000 - 15,000‡♠
£10,160
Lot Details
graphite and gouache on paper
signed and dated 'Peter Doig 03' lower right
35.6 x 41.9 cm (14 x 16 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2003.
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Peter Doig
Scottish | 1959Peter Doig is widely considered one of the most renowned contemporary figurative painters. Born in Scotland and raised in Trinidad and Canada, Doig achieved his breakthrough in 1991 upon being awarded the prestigious Whitechapel Artist Prize and receiving a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.Doig draws on personal memories and source imagery in his pursuit of exploring the slippage between reality, imagination and memory through painting. The material properties of paint and expressive possibilities of color thereby serve to approximate the foggy, inarticulate sensation of remembering. His practice maintains a thin and balanced line between landscape and figure, superimposing photographic imagery and memories, both real and imagined.
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