Peter Doig - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 18, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    The Dallas Museum of Art, Peter Doig: Works on Paper, Vero Beach 2005, n.p., no. 78 (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Peter Doig

    Scottish • 1959

    Peter 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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Surfer

2000
Oil on paper.
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm).
Signed, titled and dated "Peter Doig June 2000 'Surfer'" on the reverse.

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $168,000

Contemporary Art Part II

18 May 2007
10am & 2pm New York