About Peter Doig - British Painter

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Peter Doig (1959 - present) is one of Britain's most prominent and exciting young painters.

He broke auction records for a living European artist in 2007 when his painting White Canoe sold for $11.7million at Sotheby's.

For more information and about his life and work consult the various links below which advise where you can see it - in museums and online - and read about it

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Image: Exhibition Catalogue cover referenced below

Peter Doig - biographical information

1959: Born in Edinburgh, lives in Trinidad

1960-79: Lived in Trinidad, Canada, London

1979-80: Wimbledon School of Art

1980-83: St Martin's School of Art, BA

1989-90: Chelsea School of Art, MA

1995-2000: Trustee of Tate Gallery, London

Peter Doig in a British painter who was born in Edinburgh in 1959. He was raised in Canada before moving to London in 1979 to study art. He initially studied at the Wimbledon School of Art (1979-80). Subsequently Doig graduated from St. Martins School of Art (1980-83) and the Chelsea School of Art (1989-90).

He then moved to Trinidad, where he now lives and works.

In terms of public recognition for his work:

* In 1991 he won the Whitechapel Art Gallery's Artist Award;

* In 1993 he was awarded first prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition.

* He was short-listed for the 1994 Turner Prize.

* He has acted as a trustee for the Tate Gallery, London since 1995.

* His work has appeared in group shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Kunsthalle Wien and the Serpentine Gallery and was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

* In 2007, his painting White Canoe broke auction records for the value of a painting sold by a living artist

Other venues for his solo shows have included the Whitechapel Gallery, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami.

• Artist Dossier: Peter Doig - ARTINFO.com
  Was Peter Doig's record-breaking $11 million auction price a fluke? Or the beginning of a major market ascent?
• Frieze Magazine: Issue 6 September-October 1992 - The ghostly memories and references of Peter Doig
  Weird places, Strange folk (monograph) - The ghostly memories and references of Peter Doig
• Artfacts: Peter Doig - Biography
  Peter Doig - Biography, Artworks, Artist Ranking, Public exhibitions, Solo shows, Group shows, Dealer Directory, Public collections, Catalogs, Auction results
• Peter Doig - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery
  Peter Doig's artworks, biography and articles
• BBC - Your Paintings - Peter Doig
  Explore the paintings of Peter Doig in the National Collection and find out where you can see them...

BOOK: Peter Doig (Contemporary Artists)

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An overview of the work of Peter Doig by Adrian Searle, Chief Art Critic at the Guardian who has written extensively about the work of Peter Doig - and Kitty Scott, the Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos.

I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.

— Peter Doig

Peter Doig

I am always interested in what we miss when we try to focus on what we see.

For example, when you take a photo you will always feel a bit disappointed after the exposure, because it's never representing what you perceived when you took it.

— Peter Doig

VIDEO: Peter Doig: famous artists 'are quickly forgotten'

The acclaimed Scottish painter Peter Doig's new exhibition opens this week, but he tells Katie Razzall that the high value of his work "doesn't give me confidence".

NEW BOOK: Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands - Michael Werner (Editor)

Catalogue which is being published in association with Doig's first major exhibition in the country of his birth, No Foreign Lands - which showcases works created during the past ten years, much of which has been created in Trinidad which is now his home.

The exhibition 'No Foreign Lands' can be seen at the Scottish National Gallery (3rd August - 3rd November 2013)

About Peter Doig's Artwork

Romantic Realism by Painting from Photographs?

Peter Doig creates dreamlike paintings said to have a hallucinatory palette with expressive brushwork. He uses photographs to paint from but creates paintings which can never be mistaken for a photograph.

Doig engages with a tradition of romantic realism while, at the same time, his work has had a deep influence on contemporary painting. His paintings have been noted for an intriguing balance of figurative art with abstract surface qualities.

His influences include Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Acid colours and a loose technique suggest comparisons with Post-Impressionists such as Bonnard. The attention paid to contemporary leisure space can be compared with the work of the German photographer Andreas Gursky.

Doig's overall theme explores the relationship between man and his environment. Peter Doig's canoes - memories of living in Canada - have become a seminal image in his work.

Reference sources for his paintings are photographic sources: film stills, newspaper photos, postcards, album covers plus other randomly found images.

Other inspirations are the changing environments and societies in which he has lived, from the ski-slopes and frozen lakes of his Canadian childhood, to the tropical landscapes of the Caribbean and the urban environment of London and Port of Spain.

From these he creates images as pictorial tableau.

Peter Doig's painting techniques

One of the most popular searches on Google in relation to Peter Doig concerns his painting techniques - so here's what I could find about how he paints!

• The Art of the Landscape: Peter Doig's landscapes and painting process
  This is a video of Peter Doig introducing his paintings in his exhibition exhibition at Tate Modern in 2008 and talking about the process of creating art.
• Peter Doig | Version | postmedia
  Peter Doig - Contrary to his hooded figure, Peter Doig does not sit in the landscape reconstructing the romantic image of the painter in nature. His own and other people's photographs, the sum total of the media image archives, the images of art hist
• Will Gompertz on how Peter Doig's quiet paintings taught him to take his time over art | Art and des
  I thought that Peter Doig's quiet landscape paintings were dull - until I realised that, like much great art, I hadn't spent enough time looking at them, writes Will Gompertz
• Peter Doig: A perfectionist in paradise | The Independent
  Last year, one of Peter Doig's paintings smashed auction records. Author F G Cottam tracks him down in Trinidad ahead of his Tate Britain retrospective . In Port of Spain, on the way to visit his studio, Peter Doig detours to show me the house where
• archivepeterdoig
  Peter Doig February 5-April 27, 2008 Tate Britain, Millbank, London The most comprehensive exhibition to date of the work of Peter Doig opens at Tate Britain in February 2008. Spanning two decades, this major survey comprises over 50 paintings and a
• Peter Doig | Creative Process & Research: Painting (FW2011 – Section 2)
  Peter Doig Posted on February 28, 2012 by Katherine Anne Phin Explores his painting processes
• Peter Doig Echo Lake 1998 | Tate Britain
  Technique and condition The painting was executed on a single piece of fairly heavy-weight cotton duck canvas, with a double thread in both warp and weave directions, that has been stretched around an expandable softwood stretcher and attached with

VIDEO: Artist and Curator in Conversation: Peter Doig and Heidi Zuckerman - an interview in Berkeley

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Peter Doig talks about his work and how it has progressed over time

This a conversation between artist Peter Doig and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, director and chief curator of the Aspen Art Museum.

Doig doesn't make art to glance at; you have to work at understanding what he is saying to be able to appreciate it.

— Will Gompertz

Articles about Peter Doig

Other articles include:

Peter Doig: Charley's Space, exh. cat., Maastricht, 2003, n.p. (illustrated in color).

Parkett, vol. 67, Zürich and New York, 2003 (illustrated in color on the back cover).

A. Searle, K. Scott and C. Grenier, eds., Peter Doig, London, 2007, p. 11, 158 (illustrated in color).

K. A. Fitzgerald, "Peter Doig, A Mid-Career Retrospective at Tate Britain," Culture 24, 5 February 2008 (illustrated in color).

C. Darwent, "Peter Doig, Tate Britain, London," The Independent, 10 February 2008, p. 55 (illustrated in color).

B. Schwabsky, "Glimpses Beyond the Edge," Art in America, vol. 96, no. 5, May 2008, p. 171 (illustrated in color).

M. Farine, "Peter Doig, ses peintures atmospheriques," L'oeil, June 2008, p. 35 (illustrated in color).

L'object d'art, June 2008, p. 35 (illustrated in color).

B. Louis, "Peter Doig," Monopol, no. 3, 2008, p. 101 (illustrated in color).

• Peter Doig: the outsider comes home | Art and design | The Guardian
  Peter Doig's menacing works used to sell for around £8,000. Then Saatchi sold one for almost £6m. As the Scot warms up for his big homecoming show, he talks to Stuart Jeffries about life in Trinidad,
• Tim Adams interviews Peter Doig | Art and design | The Observer 27 January 2008
  Fifteen years ago, while Damien Hirst and the other YBAs were storming the citadels of the art world, another British artist was working away largely unnoticed. But all that changed last year when one of his paintings sold for £5.7 million - a recor
• Frieze Magazine | Issue 113 March 2008 | Life in Film: Peter Doig
  Issue 113 March 2008 Life in Film: Peter Doig
• Peter Doig | Version | postmedia
  Peter Doig Contrary to his hooded figure, Peter Doig does not sit in the landscape reconstructing the romantic image of the painter in nature. His own and other people's photographs, the sum total of the media image archives, the images of art histor
• Strange reflections with Peter Doig | BBC newsnight review
  It is clearly a strange experience for an artist to see so many of his paintings all gathered together in one place.
• The best of Peter Doig - in pictures | Art and design | The Observer
  On the eve of the painter's new retrospective in Edinburgh, here is a selection of his fascinating works from the past 20 years
• Peter Doig | Culture > Art & Design | W Magazine
  Peter Doig has long painted the landscape from afar. But in Trinidad, he considers the world right outside his door.
• Peter Doig interview: the triumph of painting - Telegraph
  Uninterested in conceptual art, Peter Doig paints lush, mysterious landscapes – and breaks saleroom records. Mark Hudson reports.

I don't think my paintings are reactionary in the way they look back.

I hope they are about looking forward. I believe in the future of art, but not necessarily in the way it is told. I find a lot of work done 100 years ago more forward looking than what was done in the last ten years.

— Peter Doig

BOOK: Peter Doig - Catalogue for the Tate Exhibition 2008

Exhibitions of artwork by Peter Doig

2013: Scottish National Gallery retrospective

2008: Tate Britain retrospective

2006: Art Gallery of Ontario

2005: Dallas Museum of Art; The Gallery of Windsor

2004: Metropolitain Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

2003: Charley's Space Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht ; Carré d'Art contemporain de Nîmes, France

2002: 100 Years Ago Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2001: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

2000: Echo Lake Matrix, University of California, Berkeley; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Saint Louis Art Museum,

Missouri; Almost Grown The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

1999: Version Kunsthaus, Glarus, Switzerland wing-mirror, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

1998: Peter Doig: Blizzard seventy-seven Kunsthalle Kiel; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Whitechapel Gallery, London

1996: Homely Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

1994: Concrete Cabins Victoria Miro Gallery, London

• Tate Britain - Peter Doig exhibition 5 February - 11 May 2008
  Peter Doig made his name during the early 1990s with his distinctive approach to figurative painting. This exhibition begins with the paintings Doig produced from the late 80s. Tthey were a breakthrough in his own practice, and quite unlike anything
• Peter Doig at Tate Britain - Take a virtual tour around the exhibition
  Explore the Exhibition. Navigate the interactive using your mouse. To view fullscreen, select this mode from the controls. Use the hotspots to move from room to room.
• Peter Doig: a free spirit captured in Scottish National Gallery's retrospective | Art and design | T
  Strange and poetic figurative art of the Trinidad-based painter Peter Doig will be showcased in exhibition of 120 works
• Peter Doig | No Foreign Lands | Academy (Scottish National Gallery)
  Peter Doig | No Foreign Lands 3rd August − 3rd November 2013 Academy (Scottish National Gallery) Doig's first major exhibition in the country of his birth, No Foreign Lands showcases works created during the past ten years, much of which the artist s
• Peter Doig: the art of the foreign | Art and design | The Observer
  The Scots think of Peter Doig as their own, but 'elsewhere' has always been the subject of his vivid paintings, writes Sean O'Hagan
• Peter Doig: famous artists 'are quickly forgotten' - Channel 4 News
  The acclaimed Scottish painter Peter Doig's new exhibition opens this week, but he tells Katie Razzall that the high value of his work "doesn't give me confidence".
• Peter Doig at the Scottish National Gallery - FT.com
  A retraction. Peter Doig’s canvases are so unabashedly, flamboyantly beautiful that when, in 2008, he filled Tate Britain with paintings of blotchy Canadian snowstorms and lone canoeists reflected in glimmering waters, I dismissed his entire oeuvre
• Scots artist Peter Doig on his first National Gallery show | Herald Scotland
  Peter Doig may be at the centre of an art world whirlwind but he's as driven as ever. Phil Miller meets the artist on the eve of his first Scottish show.
• Interview: Peter Doig, painter, on his No Foreign Lands exhibition | WOW247
  Everywhere is home to Peter Doig, which is why his pictures take you to a strange place, he tells Susan Mansfield
• ART IN REVIEW; Peter Doig - New York Times
  ART IN REVIEW; Peter Doig By KEN JOHNSON Published: December 10, 1999 The four large canvases in Peter Doig's exhibition seem dull at first, but the more you look, the more interesting they become.

The cover features the painting which won the John Moore Painting competition which won him £20,000 at the point where the bills were mounting up and his credit card companies were asking him to cut up his cards! It was probably the major turning point in his career.

Peter Doig - by Richard Shiff (Author), Catherine Lampert (Author), Peter Doig (Contributor)

Sais to be the most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig.

However I recommend that you do read the criticisms of the presentation of the images before considering buying this book.

BOOKS: Peter Doig - works on paper - books from Amazon

A full-color monograph which documents and displays Doig's first show dedicated solely to his paper works of the past 14 years.

Exhibition Dates:

* Dallas Museum of Art beginning September 13, 2005

* The Gallery of Windsor beginning December 4, 2005

* Art Gallery of Ontario beginning March 8, 2006.

BOOK: Peter Doig: Works on Paper - by Peter Doig (Author), Adrian Searle (Author)

This is the first publication devoted to Peter Doig's work on paper. Adrian Searle - the Guardian art critic and an early supporter of Doig's work - provides an essay commenting on Doig's work

Peter Doig in Museums and Art Galleries

2006: Art Gallery of Ontario

2005: Dallas Museum of Art; The Gallery of Windsor

2004: Metropolitain Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

2003: Charley's Space Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht ; Carré d'Art contemporain de Nîmes, France

2002: 100 Years Ago Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2001: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

2000: Echo Lake Matrix, University of California, Berkeley; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Saint Louis Art Museum

Missouri; Almost Grown The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

1999: Version Kunsthaus, Glarus, Switzerland wing-mirror, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

1998: Peter Doig: Blizzard seventy-seven Kunsthalle Kiel; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Whitechapel Gallery, London

1996: Homely Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

1994: Concrete Cabins Victoria Miro Gallery, London

• Peter Doig in Tate Modern
  32 works
• Peter Doig | The Art Institute of Chicago
  Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre, 2000-2002 Guest House 3, 2002
• Collection Database | Works of Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Grasshopper
• MoMA | The Collection | Peter Doig. (British, born 1959)
  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary art collection includes modern and contemporary art.
• Peter Doig - Artwork - The Saatchi Gallery
  Peter Doig artworks, articles and biography at Saatchi Gallery

Peter Doig in Online Galleries

• Artcyclopedia - Peter Doig Online
  Peter Doig [British Painter, born in 1959] Guide to pictures of works by Peter Doig in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
• ArtNet - Peter Doig
  records of auction prices
• Artnews.org: Peter Doig
  Peter Doig - images, vita, contact - presented by Artnews.org

Peter Doig Artwork at Auction

In 2007 a painting by Peter Doig Called "White Canoe" sold for $11.3 million at Sotheby's in London and set the auction record for a sale of a painting by a living European artist

August 2011: Red Boat (Imaginary Boys) - £6,201,250 ($9,897,195) against a £1.4-1.8 million estimate

• PETER DOIG - by Sotheby's (White Canoe 2007 auction)
  Contemporary Art, Evening Saleby Sotheby's 2007 United KingdomLot 7: f,m,s - PETER DOIG White Canoe
• View recent auction price results for Peter Doig or subscribe for 15+ years of results | Artfact
  Peter Doig Auction Price Results
• Peter DOIG at Auction and Art Market Information - Biography - by artprice.com
  Peter DOIG at auction in the world : Painting, Print-Multiple, Photography, Drawing-Watercolor, biography, Indices and Market Trends. artprice.com, the world leader in art market information: Art price and art market guides. Updated world auction sal
• Peter Doig At Christie's: Painting By The Scottish Artist Set To Fetch Millions At Auction (PHOTO)
  Peter Doig has been known to fetch a high price at auction, attracting eager bidders with his tranquil, snowy landscapes. But can you guess how much his latest bidding block item, "The Architect's Home in the Ravine," is set to sell for at Christie's
• Janice Harper: A Painting Without an Artist
  Confirming that it was his expert opinion that Fletcher owned the first Doig painting to be sold, Bartlow set out to have the painting authenticated by Peter Doig himself. And that's where the story gets weird.
• Surfer (from 100 Years Ago) by Peter Doig on artnet
  View the auction lot, Surfer (from 100 Years Ago), by Peter Doig on artnet. Find artwork details or browse more lots by Peter Doig. Phillips New York: Monday, April 29, 2013 [Lot 00316] Editions Day

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Comments and Suggestions - Let me know what you think

Delia on November 16, 2010:

Hello from a Squidoo Greeter! Peter Doig's art is very different in style, I really like it.