Peter Doig - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 29, 2013 | Phillips
  • 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, from 100 Years Ago

2000-2001
Etching in colors, on Hahnemühle etching paper, with full margins,
I. 55 7/8 x 35 1/4 in (141.9 x 89.5 cm)
S. 65 1/4 x 44 7/8 in (165.7 x 114 cm)

signed and numbered 38/46 in pencil, (there were also 6 artist's proofs), published by The Paragon Press, London, generally in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $27,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 29 April 2013 10am & 6pm