Peter Doig

Peter Doig 1959 By a River. 2004. Oil on canvas. Inscribed with the work number “PD/M 71” on the stretcher. 200 x 186 cm (78.7 x 73.2 in). [JS]. • MASTERPIECE Peter Doig, international superstar of contemporary figurative art. • MONUMENTAL Characteristic motif of the solitary figure in a large format. • ICONIC The solitary thinker as a symbol of intellectual creativity. • RARITY The first large-format Doig painting on the German auction market. • DATE OF CREATION From the same creative period as Doig’s iconic painting “100 Years Ago (Carrera)” (Centre Pompidou, Paris). • MUSEUM-QUALITY: Large-format paintings are held by important museums and private collections worldwide, including MoMA, New York, and the Tate Modern, London. • PROVENANCE: Part of a major German private collection of important international contemporary art since its creation. We are grateful to Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, for the kind assistance. PROVENANCE: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (directly from the artist; with a label on the stretcher). Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 2004). EXHIBITION: Peter Doig – Metropolitain, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, May–September 2004, cat. no. 31, no page (illustrated, with the label of the Kestnergesellschaft on the stretcher). 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 2004–March 2005, p. 228 (in the text). Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, October–December 2006, p. 55 (illustrated, on the stretcher with the label). Peter Doig. No Foreign Lands, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, August 2013–June 2014, p. 137 (illustrated). LITERATURE: Adrian Searle, Kitty Scott, and Catherine Grenier, Peter Doig, London 2007, p. 39 (illustrated on p. 32). Richard Shiff and Catherine Lampert, Peter Doig, New York 2011, p. 117 (illustrated). "Much like the movie theater—one of the last sanctuaries of undisturbed solitude—Doig’s images ultimately take the viewer into solitude and can spark a fruitful exploration of one’s own ideas. If his paintings are meant to achieve anything at all, it is perhaps this: to perceive the experience of being stranded in a foreign place and the feeling of solitude not as a threat to life, but as an opportunity for growth [..]" Bernhart Schwenk, Grüße aus Carrera. Aus der Weite der eigenen Einsamkeit. In: Peter Doig – Metropolitain, exhibition catalog, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Berlin 2004, p. 10. "The figure with the beard who looks shaman or guru like was about the size of a match head in a postcard amongst hundreds of others - although he was one of the most isolated of the figures he also seemed the most enigmatic.“ Peter Doig, Port of Spain, March 2004. “The hermit or shaman as the ideal of the artist's existence: a central theme in Doig's work [.]” Hilke Wagner, “The Fortunate Traveller,” in: Peter Doig—Metropolitain, exhibition catalog, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Berlin 2004, p. 14. Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 18.02 h +/- 20 min.

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