Peter Doig: Contemporary Artists (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

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He’s not exactly nodding off, but it can’t be long before he does, doubtless while still picking over the massive failure he so fears. Although Friday the 13th's girl protagonist is ostensibly a survivor of the film, Canoe Lake also cites John William Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott (1888), the famous Pre-Raphaelite rendering of the suicidal protagonist of Tennyson's eponymous poem. He has since held several solo exhibitions including “Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands” which opened in 2013 at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, this was notably the first show of the artist’s work to be held in the country of his birth. Although the awards didn’t lead to sales, the prize money (three thousand pounds from the Whitechapel and twenty thousand from John Moores) allowed him to pay off several years’ worth of his accumulating debts and move with Bonnie into a nicer flat.

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In Blotter we see a gloved figure standing on a sheet of frozen ice, watching his own feet as he appears to stamp in puddles, making ripples spread about him. Martin’s, Doig had been influenced by artists from nearly every period in Western art, from Goya and Courbet and Picasso and Max Beckmann to the young German and Italian neo-expressionists (Baselitz, Polke, Clemente) who were starting to appear in London galleries then. In this mesmerizing canvas, pinpoint stars share a black and blue skyscape featuring a cloudy Milky Way.A display showcasing remarkable forgeries from The Courtauld’s collection and the stories behind their making and the discovery of their deception.

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Derek Walcott, the great Caribbean poet whom Doig got to know a few years before he died, wrote a poem about the painting. Art critic Adrian Searle saw something darker in the canoe motif: "Figures in canoes and boats drift through Doig's show, as though - a disconcerting thought, this - biding their time, waiting to ferry us to the underworld. Even though The Mighty Shadow was a beloved figure, there is often something sinister in Doig’s portrayals – as if suggesting, as with his canoe motifs, death is at hand. The upper half of the painting is all sky, pale blue with wispy clouds, brushed on the canvas in many layers of thinned-down pigment.Doig was fascinated by the use of reflection in film, which is often used to represent an entrance point into another world. When Doig learned that some of the inmates had become painters, he got permission to talk with them, and later helped them mount their annual exhibition of work in Port of Spain. He wants to “infuse his work with his life,” Ofili told me, but the autobiographical references are indirect, not specific.

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Doig felt comfortable in the local scene and started hanging around with musicians and fashion designers. Outside the studio, he leads a fairly rugged outdoor life, kayaking and swimming in Trinidad, playing ice hockey three nights a week when he’s in New York or London, skiing in the French Alps or the Rockies. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties.He remains keenly aware of the distance between the history of forced migration that informs Trinidad’s rich Creole traditions and the conditions of his own chosen migration that position him as a privileged if perennial outsider. It was once the site of Trinidad’s first large sugar plantation, established by Picot de la Lapeyrouse, a French nobleman who came to the island in 1778. On this occasion, I saw him in the rearview mirror, walking toward me, and as he went by I took a few snaps.