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Peter Doig

Peter Doig (Born 1959) is active/lives in Quebec, Ontario / Trinidad and Tobago.  Peter Doig is known for Abstract figure, canoes, urban structures and landscape painting.

"Peter Doig: Stroke of genius: Peter Doig's eerie art whisks the mind to enchanted places" by Jonathan Jones, The Guardian (London), May 16, 2015:

It must be the most expensive canoe in history.  This week in Manhattan a painting by Edinburgh-born Peter Doig of a small white boat lost in a tangle of weeds and tree stumps in some remote wilderness went under the hammer for $26m (£16.6m) in a sale that puts him unquestionably in the top financial echelon of living artists. It is the latest chapter in the most unlikely and heartwarming success story in 21st-century art.

Doig is a decent man, a generous teacher and a talented artist.  More than a decade ago, I visited his studio when I was writing a catalogue for an exhibition he was about to have in Santa Monica with his friend Chris Ofili.  They had neighbouring studios in east London at the time: both now live and work mostly in Trinidad. Doig spent most of the time praising Ofili.  Yet all arou   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7830 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Peter Doig

   Peter Doig  Born:  1959 - Edinburgh, Scotland
Known for:  Abstract figure, canoes, urban structures and landscape painting

"Peter Doig: Stroke of genius: Peter Doig's eerie art whisks the mind to enchanted places" by Jonathan Jones, The Guardian (London), May 16, 2015:

It must be the most expensive canoe in history.  This week in Manhattan a painting by Edinburgh-born Peter Doig of a small white boat lost in a tangle of weeds and tree stumps in some remote wilderness went under the hammer for $26m (£16.6m) in a sale that puts him unquestionably in the top financial echelon of living artists. It is the latest chapter in the most unlikely and heartwarming success story in 21st-century art.

Doig is a decent man, a generous teacher and a talented artist.  More than a decade ago, I visited his studio when I was writing a catalogue for  ...  Displaying 750 of 7830 characters.

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