Paintings by Peter Doig, Oils on Linen

Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1962 he moved with his family to Trinidad, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada. He moved to London to study at the Wimbledon School of Art in 1979-80, Saint Martin’s School of Art (where he became friends with artist Billy Childish), from 1980 to 1983, and Chelsea School of Art, in 1989-90, where he received an MA.

Doig was invited to return to Trinidad in 2000, to take up an artist’s residency with his friend and fellow painter Chris Ofili. In 2002, Doig moved back to the island, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Center near Port of Spain. He also became professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Düsseldorf, Germany.

In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby’s for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect’s Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction.

Images from Top to Bottom: “Cricket Painting (Paragrand)”;  “Almost Grown”;  “Milky Way”;  “100 Years Ago (Carrera)”;  “Pelican (Stag)”;  “Figure Walking by the Pool”;  “Red Boat (Imaginary Boys”;  “Spear Fishing”;  “No Foreign Lands”