Live Auction 7978Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Peter Doig (b. 1959)
Lot 112

Peter Doig (b. 1959)

Drifter

Closed29 June 2011

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GBP 145,250

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Peter Doig (b. 1959)
Drifter
signed, titled and dated 'DRIFTER P. Doig 1996' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9¾ x 96in. (24.9 x 243.6cm.)
Painted in 1996

Ridinghouse Editions, London.
Anderson O'Day Fine Arts, London.
Private Collection, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 2 July 2008, lot 312.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Peter Doig's paintings evoke the memory of places, of landscapes. This is an ambivalent kind of memory: it is not clear whether we have seen these somewhere, or whether we have known them for far too long, or whether we have always been looking for them. We do not know whether they are unknown or familiar; whether they are fantasy or reality. This imponderability is the source of their magic.' (E. Schmidt, 'Worlds Within Worlds Within Worlds', in Peter Doig Homely, exh. cat., Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, 1996, p. 29).