Peter Doig - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, February 28, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    The Paragon Press, London

  • 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

2000 – 2001

Colour etching.

166 x 112 cm. (65 1/4 x 44 1/8 in).

Signed ‘Doig’ and numbered of forty-six along the lower margin.This work is from an edition of forty-six.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠

Sold for £10,000

Contemporary Art Day Sale

29 Feb 2008, 2pm
London