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A girl with red lips and long blond hair sits in a purple canoe, one hand trailing listlessly in the water. Pine trees on the far shore are echoed by their reflections in the still lake. The scene is placid, yet ominous. The imagery in Doig’s new works is diverse, drawing on private and found visual sources. Product details Andrew L. Shea. "Peter Doig at Michael Werner Gallery." newcriterion.com. October 17, 2017, ill. (color). Unwind after work and explore masterpieces from The Courtauld’s world-renowned art collection, such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Other highlights include our 20th Century British Art display, the Bloomsbury Room and the magnificent Blavatnik Fine Rooms. Zürich, Parkett Verlag 2003. 25,5 : 21 cm. 201 S. mit zahlr. teils farb. Abb. u. (67) S. Anzeigen. Illustr. Orig.-Umschlag. Insert: Marcel Dzama. - Schönes Exemplar. Sprache: de, en.

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Joanne Steer, Andrea Bilbow, Claire Berry, Jess Brunet, Peter Hill, Alex Doig, Eva Akins, Valerie Ivens, Sally Cubbin, Allyson Parry It could be a massive failure,” says Peter Doig with a laugh. The 63-year-old painter is worrying about his looming show at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Only very rarely is a living artist deemed worthy of having their works hang alongside the esteemed London gallery’s Cézannes, Gauguins, Manets, Monets and Renoirs. Softcover. Condition: New. 54 S., zahlr. Abb., kart., OU., 24 x 18 cm. Eins von 800 Exemplaren (nn.). Mit einem Text von Manfred Hermes (dt., engl.).

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The high prices have brought new problems. Doig paintings are so costly to insure that museums have to think twice about showing them. He’s had major exhibitions at the Tate, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Louisiana Museum, in Denmark, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, but nothing so far at MOMA, the Met, or other big museums in this country. This book was my introduction to Peter Doig-- I was immediately in love. Doig's dreamy landscapes wield that mysterious power of deceptively simple images-an abstraction of a memory, an incomplete statement, or poem with no final line. Margaret Atwood's somewhat elliptical introduction meshes well the work; she emphasizes the ability of Doig's drawings and sketches to repeatedly ask the viewer "Are you really here?" Although I think the work functions on several other levels, I do agree that this is one of its stronger aspects. Additionally, blotting paper can be used to carry LSD, a drug that Doig took as a teen. Art critic Sean O'Hagan said: "A painting like the knowingly titled Blotter is charged with that heightened, fractured, but pinpoint-clear way of seeing that anyone who has taken the drug will immediately recognize." This was what Doig was trying to achieve with his work; he wanted the viewer to experience states of minds that are hard to describe.

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Published to accompany Doig’s major European traveling retrospective originating at Tate Britain, this extremely satisfying and lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive account of the artist’s practice over two decades of extraordinary achievement. It is the most thorough overview of his work to date. With an essay by art historian Richard Shiff, an introduction by Tate curator Judith Nesbitt and an illuminating conversation between Doig and his friend, the artist Chris Ofili, this is an enlightening survey of one of the most influential painters at work today.

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The piece took six years to complete and Doig worked on it up until the moment it was delivered to the gallery. All of the artist's signature motifs are there; water, reflection, a solitary boat, snowfall, vivid color, and mysterious messages, but here the violence hinted at in previous pieces becomes more pronounced, literally foregrounded in the painting. In the middle of this surreal landscape a police car stands as an officer approaches the starlit lake in the foreground, his reflection visible beneath. He is peering out towards the viewer with his hands aloft as if he is shielding his eyes to see into the darkness. His mouth is open as if he is calling out. Eerie forests absorb the light, and horizontal bands of color in the middle of the piece are muddy and dark, while the greens of the trees behind are ghostly. Rheingold III. Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen / Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter. Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach. That questioning surfaces in Two Trees, one of his best recent paintings. It’s another Trinidadian picture, originally commissioned by the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum to sit alongside its works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, most notably Hunters in the Snow. Like that famous scene, Doig’s painting is dominated by bare-limbed trees, but it goes way beyond the Flemish master’s vision, having been inspired by a view from his window in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Three nocturnal figures stand before the sea, silhouetted by a setting moon like escapees from a Munch fjord.

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lingered over this one at a bookstore. i involuntarily said 'wow' outloud. rilly beautiful book. (and prettier IMHO than the nesbitt edited tate book, which i also peeked at.) Peter Doig has been the subject of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, including a major traveling survey in 2008 at Tate Britain, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Richard Shiff is a renowned art historian and critic. Catherine Lampert is an independent curator and writer based in England. Doig’s unfinished paintings, including some for the Courtauld, follow him around the world. “Some I started in New York, others in Trinidad. Often I’d do them in distemper paint, then roll them up and post them to myself, making sure they are fumigated so termites don’t eat through the canvas stretchers. I don’t like finishing things really. I like to have things on the go. Actually, I like paintings where you can question whether they’re finished.” Many of the Cézannes at Tate Modern’s current retrospective are like that, he says. “Some look like they were taken off the easel by someone else.” From books that inspired the artist to accompanying souvenirs featuring works from the show, shop a carefully curated range of Doig’s latest work. Max Hollein. Modern and Contemporary Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2019, ill. p. 177 (color).

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Since relocating from Trinidad to London in 2021, Doig has set up a new studio in the city where he has been developing paintings started in Trinidad, New York and elsewhere in preparation for their unveiling at The Courtauld Gallery exhibition. Michael Sistig. Elementarbrechung (Edition Young Art) Peter Doig; Michael Sistig; Jim Reid and Egon Schütz Sponsored by Morgan Stanley and supported by Kenneth C. Griffin and the Huo Family Foundation, with additional support from the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Peter Doig is the first exhibition by a contemporary artist to take place at The Courtauld since it reopened in November 2021 following its acclaimed redevelopment. Since relocating to London, Doig has been developing paintings started in Trinidad, New York and elsewhere, which have been worked up alongside completely fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly creative experience of transition, as Doig explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting.

I wanted to be somewhere different,” Doig told me. “It was mostly for my work, but I also felt that Trinidad had affected my life, and I wanted the children to have that experience.” Lapeyrouse Wall, 2004

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