Peter Doig - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale Hong Kong Saturday, November 25, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Rainer Haarmann, Neuwittenbeck
    Private Collection
    Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2006, lot 325
    Private Collection
    Christie's London, 17 February 2011, lot 174
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • 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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Property of an Important European Collector

31

Birdhouse

1995
signed with the artist's initials 'PD' on the reverse
pastel on paper
25 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1995.

Estimate
HK$600,000 - 800,000 
€66,200-88,300
$76,900-103,000

Sold for HK$1,062,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale

Hong Kong Auction 26 November 2017