Peter Doig - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Bruno Brunnet, Berlin

  • Exhibited

    Peter Doig, Works on Paper; Dallas Museum of Art, 12 September - 20 November 2005; Vero Beach, the Gallery at Windsor, 4 December - 1 March 2006; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, March - June 2006

  • Literature

    Kadee Robbins, with an introduction by Margaret Atwood, Peter Doig: Works on Paper, New York, 2006. p. 74 (illustrated)

  • 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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Highway 2

1999
Oil on thin board.
41.9 x 59.1 cm. (16 1/2 x 23 1/4 in).
Signed an titled 'Peter Doig Highway 2' on the reverse.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 ♠†

Sold for £70,850

Contemporary Art Day Sale

14 October 2010
London