Peter Doig - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    The final edition size will be announced in a catalogue published in the future.
    313 A 1 - Pelican
    313 A 2 - Haus der Bilder
    313 A 3 - Figure by a River
    313 A 4 - Black Palm
    313 A 5 - Fisherman
    313 A 6 - Boathouse
    This group of etchings came about whilst working with the printer Fritze Margull. He came down to Port of Spain, Trinidad where I have set up house and studio. We built a small make shift studio in the corner of a large warehouse space - we had a small table top press that we used to proof the plates with. The images for the etchings for the most part are relatively new ones for me although I have made some drawings, and water colours using similar imagery. I am in the process of using the images to make larger scale paintings now. I have found that making etchings prior to making paintings is a useful way to familiarize myself with the subject and imagery. The images themselves for the most part are not from Trinidad. I wanted to avoid direct references to here - it is such an imagistically and culturally rich country that I feel like I need time to absorb it - I don't want to rush. Having said this I did choose images that could easily be from here...for the most part the images come from post cards of India that I bought about five years ago in a London junk shop. They were quite old and for the most part anonymous - no place names. They seemed exotic and at the same time sad and reminded me of aspects of Trinidad. The one image that does derive from here is Black Palm. This is based on a photograph that I took four years ago - the first time I had returned to Trinidad since living her as a child in the 1960's. I used the same tree and lagoon in a painting called Grande Riviere. I visited the same place last weekend and the seemingly impossible angled twisted palm has now fallen into the lagoon. The figure in Haus Der Bilder is from a small Daumier painting I saw in the Art Institute in Chicago. The figure dragging the dead pelican was dragging a fishing net in the Indian post card - I saw a man killing and dragging a pelican along the beach here; dinner. The figure with the beard who looks shaman or guru like was about the size of a match head in a post card amongst hundereds of others - although he was one of the most isolated of the figures he also seemed the most enigmatic. Peter Doig, Port of Spain, March 2004.

  • 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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Untitled Portfolio

2004
The complete set of six aquatints with etching in colors, on Zerkall paper, with full margins,
all S. 21 x 15 in. (53.3 x 38.1 cm).
all signed and dated '04 in pencil, published by Griffelkunst, Hamburg, all in excellent condition, all unframed

Estimate
$7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $7,500

Modern and Contemporary Editions

21 May 2008, 2pm
New York