Peter Doig - Color & Scale: The Estate of Martha Hummer Bradley New York Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    James Hyman Gallery, London, 2003

  • Catalogue Essay

    Martha Hummer Bradley was an avid traveler and art enthusiast whose remarkable collection of contemporary photographs and prints includes some of the most revered artists in the world alongside lesser-known cutting edge practitioners working across media. She enthusiastically embraced photography’s transition from small-format black-and-white prints to vibrant, oversized tableaux and, having moved to London from the United States in the 1980s, championed a new generation of British photographers, including Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Darren Almond. Color & Scale captures Hummer Bradley’s inclusive vision and celebrates her passion for art.

  • 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

2001
Etching and aquatint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins.
55 7/8 x 34 7/8 in. (141.9 x 88.6 cm)
Sheet 65 1/4 x 43 3/4 in. (165.7 x 111.1 cm)
Overall 70 3/4 x 49 5/8 in. (179.7 x 126 cm)

Signed and numbered 21/46 in pencil, published by The Paragon Press, London.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $18,900

Contact Specialist

Caroline Deck
Senior Specialist, Photographs, New York
cdeck@phillips.com

Color & Scale: The Estate of Martha Hummer Bradley

Online Auction 14-21 September 2022