GO SEE: PETER DOIG AT TATE BRITAIN, February 25 – April 27
February 25th, 2008
Peter Doig, Ski Jacket 1994 via Tate Britain
The Peter Doig retrospective opens today at the Tate Britain in London. This comprehensive survey chronicles the artist who in 2007 became one of Europe’s most expensive living painters when his work White Canoe sold for £5.7 million at Sotheby’s. His canvases blur the line between abstraction and figuration as he creates images drawn from photographs, newspapers or snapshots.
Peter Doig [Tate Britain]
Record Painter [The Guardian]
Peter Doig’s success [ ArtInfo]
Peter Doig’s exhibition at Tate Britain [The Economist]
Peter Doig via ArtInfo
The exhibition spans the last two decades of his career, bringing together over 50 paintings as well as many works on paper. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland he has also lived and worked in London, Canada and Trinidad. Doig moved back to Trinidad in 2002 and several of his more recent works from Trinidad will be on display for the first time in London at the exhibition. The exhibition travel to the ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris from 29 May – 7 September 2008 and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany from 9 October 2008 – 4 January 2009.
Peter Doig’s painting via ArtInfo
