Er hatte umfassende Einzelausstellungen im Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris im Jahr 2011 sowie den National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh im Jahr 2013.

One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. British, born 1959.

Doig draws on personal memories from his childhood in Canada, as well as imagery sourced from photographs and films, to craft images that exist in fantastical, timeless spaces that feel both personal and universal.

Peter Doig (/ ˈ d ɔɪ ɡ / DOYG; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter.

“There exists a tension,” Peter Doig has explained of his work, “…between the often generic representation of a pastoral scene and the investment in my own experiences of the landscape.

Peter Doig’s enigmatic paintings are characterized by their captivating combination of figurative depiction and dreamlike quality. Er soll zu fünf Millionen Dollar Strafe verurteilt werden.

Peter Doig’s enigmatic paintings are characterized by their captivating combination of figurative depiction and dreamlike quality.

In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. Peter Doig (schottisch, 1959) ist ein Maler, der für seine Landschaften bekannt ist, er wurde für seine Gemälde durch die zahlreichen Umzüge in seiner Kindheit und die Entwicklungen der modernen Gesellschaft inspiriert. Doig draws on personal memories from his childhood in Canada, as well as imagery sourced from photographs and films, to craft images that exist in fantastical, timeless spaces that feel both personal and universal.

Absurd: Peter Doig ist der erste Künstler, der beweisen muss, dass ein Gemälde nicht von ihm stammt.

Doig wurde in Edinburgh geboren und lebte während seiner Jugend in Trindad, London und Kanada. Adrian Searle admires Tate Britain's rich, haunting retrospective Peter Doig’s paintings of Le Corbusier’s classic modernist apartment block offer a mysterious Utopia: cosmopolitan dream architecture nestled in (or imprisoned by) tangling wilderness. From his trippy winter landscapes to his cute chipmunks, Peter Doig is incapable of making a boring painting.

Peter Doig war bereits für den Turner-Preis nominiert und erhielt im selben Jahr den Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis des Museum Ludwig in Köln.

“There exists a tension,” Peter Doig has explained of his work, “…between the often generic representation of a pastoral scene and the investment in my own experiences of the landscape. British, born 1959.