Peter Doig: Contemporary Artists (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

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A tall, bearded man in white shorts walks across a tropical beach, glaring at the viewer. He is dragging something behind him, something we can’t quite see, because it’s in deep shadow, but the walker has just come into an abstract wash of whitish-blue paint—late-afternoon sunlight breaking through overhead palm trees—and his features are clearly visible. There is something troubling about this bearded man. The painting, although startlingly beautiful in its velvety, deep-viridian play of light and shadow, makes us uneasy. There’s a story here, one that may not end well, but we don’t know what it is. The exhibition is presented across The Courtauld’s Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries and the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery. It is the third in The Morgan Stanley Series of temporary exhibitions at The Courtauld. A girl with red lips and long blond hair sits in a purple canoe, one hand trailing listlessly in the water. Pine trees on the far shore are echoed by their reflections in the still lake. The scene is placid, yet ominous. Featuring 12 paintings and 19 works on paper, the exhibition includes a group of major canvases created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021, presenting an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today. Doig has dealt with personal difficulties in the past decade. In 2012 his 24-year marriage to Bonnie Kennedy ended. His father - to whom he was very close - died, and Doig was taken to court over a painting that had been falsely attributed to him - a complicated and protracted lawsuit that kept him out of the studio for months at a time. He had to prove in court that he was not the artist behind a bizarre desert landscape signed "1976 Pete Doige". The case took four years to conclude, and his whole family became involved before it was found that Doig had nothing to do with the work.

Peter Doig, Courtauld Gallery review — modern master holds Peter Doig, Courtauld Gallery review — modern master holds

In 2002 the Doig family - now comprising two more daughters, Eva and Alice - settled in Trinidad, inviting comparisons to painter Paul Gauguin, who moved from France to Tahiti. They had their son, August, there, and three years later Ofili moved to the island to join them. Catherine Lampert. Peter Doig. Exh. cat., Michael Werner. New York, 2018, unpaginated, no. 6, ill. (color). Public Programmes, Saturday Study Event, Short Courses Saturday Study - Peter Doig: New and Recent Works - In Context In the film, Doig reflects on his move to this studio and on this particularly creative period during which he has made a major new group of paintings. Doig offers insight into his work, which explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting. Rheingold III. Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen / Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter. Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach.Peter Doig, “Figure in Mountain Landscape,” 1997-98, huile sur toile, oil on canvas, 113 3/4 x 78 1/2 inches. From the book “Morning, Paramin.”

A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig

The daughter of an architect, Mogadassi met Doig when she came to work for his New York dealer, Gavin Brown, in 2010; she is now an independent curator who also works for the Michael Werner Gallery, which has exclusively represented Doig worldwide since 2012. In addition to the end of his marriage, Doig has had to cope with the recent death of his father, to whom he was very close, and with a protracted lawsuit, in which he had to prove that he had not painted a work that was attributed to him. Although the ensuing trial kept him away from his studio for months at a time, the paintings he has done in the past two years are among the most powerful and disturbing of his career. “Now, with all that trauma behind him, he’s freed up,” Mogadassi said to me. “He’s at an age when he doesn’t have anything to lose.” Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak), 2015 Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Excelente. Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en la Galerie Daniel Buchholz de Colonia en 2005. Texto de Manfred Hermes en alemán e inglés (Gernam and English).54 pp. Rústica. 24x 18 cm. Gerard Hemsworth (curator) / Peter Blake / Victor Burgin / Anthony Caro / Nigel Cooke / Tony Cragg / Michael Craig-Martin / Peter Doig / Richard Hamilton / Siobhán Hapaska / Damien Hirst / Gary Hume / Bruce Mclean / Brendan Neiland / Julian Opie / Eduardo Paolozzi / Simon Patterson / Gavin Turk / Gillian Wearing / Catherine Yass / Jake & Dinos Chapman Mark Hudson, art critic, said: "This is art that's designed to resonate in the mind as much as the eye: a sumptuous Magic Realism for the digital age, with a random, search-engine-like connection-making rendered in oil painting that delights with the sheer richness of its surfaces."The high prices have brought new problems. Doig paintings are so costly to insure that museums have to think twice about showing them. He’s had major exhibitions at the Tate, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Louisiana Museum, in Denmark, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, but nothing so far at MOMA, the Met, or other big museums in this country. Calvin Tomkins. "The Mythical Stories in Peter Doig's Paintings." newyorker.com. December 11, 2017.