He uses observation as much as imagination, drawing on film, photography, other artists’ paintings and his own dreams to create pictures that develop unpredictably
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskAmong his collectors are Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian tycoon, and Pierre Chen, a Taiwanese electronics billionaire. Both were intrigued by Mr Doig’s early paintings, with their acres of silver birches, veils of flocked snow, white cabins and forsaken canoes. In November 2021 “Swamped”, one of his best-known works, sold at Christie’s for almost $40m.
When Mr Doig begins a painting, he says, he almost never knows where it will end. He once saw a man wringing the neck of a pelican on a beach in Trinidad. The image became a painting years later when he remembered an abstract work bythat he had once seen, showing a shaft of sunlight on trees. The picture that eventually emerged manages to be at once ethereal and menacing: the light is a celestial blue, but the figure of the man is a darkly unknowable silhouette.
After decades abroad, Mr Doig has returned again to London. On February 10th he opens a new exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in two rooms that have hosted shows ofand, more recently, Henry Fuseli, a Swiss Romantic. Mr Doig is the first contemporary artist to be displayed in them. In 1906 Vollard sent André Derain, who with Matisse was among the founders of Fauvism, to London. An exhibition of Claude Monet’s paintings of the city had recently been staged in Paris, and the dealer wanted Derain, whom he had just signed on, to try his hand at catching the shifting light over the Thames, its boats and embankments. Over three visits Derain produced a memorable body of work last seen together in 2006—at the Courtauld.
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