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One of the leading figurative painters working today, Peter Doig was born in 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father’s occupation as a shipping merchant necessitated the Doig family travel frequently and Doig consequently experienced a transitory childhood, never staying in the same house for longer than three months at a time—an itinerant, transient upbringing that would shape the approach to his art. Shortly after he was born in Scotland, he and his family moved to Trinidad in 1960 before relocating to Canada in 1966; they moved frequently in Canada and continued to visit Scotland in the summers. As Doig noted of his childhood, “We never lived in a house for more than three months. My thinking is always between places. Something I would like to achieve in my paintings is a place in between places.”

After dropping out of school at the age of 17, Doig began drawing and decided to pursue a career in painting, traveling to London to study at the Wimbledon School of Art from 1979 to 1980 and the Saint Martin’s School of Art from 1980 to 1983. He briefly

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Summary of Peter Doig

Peter Doig went from being an artist whose peers were too embarrassed to show alongside him, to possibly the most internationally loved painter of our time. He is a leading figure in contemporary art's 'return to painting' and is particularly responsible for re-inserting magic, narrative, and lyricism into painting today.

Doig is a meticulous colorist, who often uses uneasy, disquieting color combinations to create simultaneously charming and foreboding landscape paintings. Doig similarly combines seemingly incongruous, disparate reference points in his work often, inserting images from his own lived experience, film, art, and literary histories together in one composition.

Accomplishments

  • Doig's paintings almost always contain human figures, although they are often partly obscured, hidden, or dwarfed by their environment. He rejects the split between figurative and abstract painting, however, and uses recognizable tropes of abstract painting - such as the dot or splatter - in the service of representation or suggestion - as in his snowscapes.
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    Peter Doig

    Scottish painter (born 1959)

    For the former Dundee West MP, see Peter Doig (politician). For the Scottish trade union leader, see Peter Doig (trade unionist).

    Peter Doig

    Doig at the No Foreign Lands exhibition (2013).

    Born (1959-04-17) 17 April 1959 (age 65)

    Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    EducationWimbledon, Saint Martin's & Chelsea Schools of Art
    Known forPainting

    Peter Doig (DOYG; born 17 April 1959)[1] is a painter of Scottish nationality, but who spent a nomadic childhood between Trinidad, Canada, and Britain.[2] He settled in Trinidad with his family between 2002 and 2021, when he moved back to London.[3]

    In 2007, his painting White Canoe (1990-91) sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.[4] In February 2013, his painting The Architect's Home in the Ravine sold for $12 million at a London auction.[5] Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash t

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