Peter Doig’s 10 Million Dollar Canoe
7 Feb
Ever wonder what a $10 million canoe looks like?
Just click HERE to see …
Now, while you won’t see Peter Doig’s White Canoe — yes, it’s an expensive painting we’re talking about — if you attend the Doig retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London, you will be able to enjoy more than 50 of the British-born, Canadian-bred artist’s paintings.
The Telegraph recently ran THIS story about the retrospective which features another of Doig’s canoe-themed paintings, 100 Years Ago (Carrera).
The web-page for Doig’s Tate show, HERE, explains that, ” . . . Doig recasts such everyday imagery to present the viewer with imaginary, evocative landscapes and figure scenes. All are imbued with a strong sense of atmosphere – his figures often seem out of time, and his landscapes possessed of a strange, haunting presence.”
We ourselves remember being drawn to and clipping out a reproduction of Doig’s Canoe-Lake, HERE, from a magazine a while back.
The Telegraph’s Alastair Sooke quotes Doig saying, “Painting is about working your way across the surface, getting lost in it.”
It seems as though he could just as well have been talking about paddling a canoe rather than painting one.
