The recent opening of a major Peter Doig show at the Courtauld Gallery in London is a true event for fans of the influential painter. Meanwhile, for observers of the behind-the-scenes machinations of ...

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Catalonia’s most celebrated son kicks off his centenary in style, Derek Walcott energises his friend Doig and the Colombian great gets her first UK retrospective ...

“I never try to create real spaces – only painted spaces. That’s all I am interested in. That may be why there is never really any specific time or place in my painting.” The quote is by Peter Doig, ...

Peter Doig’s “Just Passing Thru” (1982), oil on canvas, 77 1/2 x 95 inches, and “Red Sienna” (1985), oil on canvas, 70 1/2 x 92 inches (all images courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York/London) I ...

Painting by Peter Doig or Peter Doige, “Peyote” (1976), 34 x 41 1/2 in, acrylic on muslin (courtesy Peter Bartlow Gallery) (click to enlarge) One of the most bizarre art authentication cases in recent ...

Born in Scotland, then brought up in Trinidad and Canada, Peter Doig had a childhood of sharp contrasts: big northern wintry skies and the bright Caribbean sunrise, icy cold and humid tropical heat.

At “House of Music,” a London exhibition of paintings by Peter Doig, songs he typically plays in his private studio help bring his work to life. By Emily LaBarge The artist organizes a show of ...

Peter Doig is “probably the single most influential painter in the world today”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Born in Scotland in 1959, but resident for many years in Trinidad, he is known for ...

In the 1970s, Robert Fletcher, a correctional officer in Canada, purchased a painting of a desert landscape from an inmate for $100. Years later, Fletcher came to believe the inmate in question was ...

The artist Peter Doig, born in Edinburgh in 1959, has led a peripatetic existence, living and working in Trinidad, Montreal, London and New York. He secured his early reputation in the 1990s with a ...