Peter Doig - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 15, 2009 | Phillips

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  • 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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Grasshopper portfolio

1997
The complete set of ten etchings in colors, on Zerkall paper, with full margins,
22 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. (57.5 x 47.3 cm)
all signed and numbered 30/35 in pencil (there were also 7 artist's proofs), published by Paragon Press, London, one with minor soiling in the lower margin, otherwise all in very good condition, contained in original portfolio box with artist's name printed on the front (occasional scuffs).

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $37,500

Modern and Contemporary Editions

15 Nov 2009
New York