Room guide: Room 5
In this room Doig’s approach to painting is revealed in the genesis of images in drawings and sketches. Although apparently instinctive, there is also a conceptual aspect to the way he incessantly rethinks a motif. Large works are often preceded by a number of related studies on paper and smaller paintings on canvas. In these formats, the artist can more easily experiment and allow the surprise effects of different materials and mark-making to provoke new images and suggest new directions.
He regularly uses a wide range of media in different combinations: watercolour, ink, sugar, charcoal, oil, pastel, coloured pencil and acrylic. Sometimes Doig reverses an image, estranging it, to create new relationships. In this process, the abstract qualities of the image can take hold. Working on paper provides a greater freedom for the image to remain unresolved and embody an element of curiosity.
Selected works from this room:
Other works from this room:
Red House 1995-6
Oil on canvas 200 x 275 cm
Olbricht Collection
Canoe Lake 1997-8
Oil on canvas 200 x 300 cm
Yageo Foundation Collection, Taiwan
Lapeyrouse Wall 2004
Oil on canvas 200 x 250.5 cm
Private Collection; fractional and promised gift to The Museum of Modern Art, New York in honor of Kynaston McShine
Snowballed Boy 1995
Oil on plywood 60.5 x 40 cm
From the Donald R. Sobey Collection
Girl on Skis 1997
Oil on canvas 30.3 x 40.6 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery
Pinto 2000
Oil on linen 49 x 69 cm
Collection Carolyn and Leslie Goldbart
Cemetery Wall 2003
Oil on canvas 36 x 46 cm
Courtesy the artist
Lapeyrouse P.O.S. Pink Umbrella 2003
Oil on canvas 41 x 32 cm
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Black Palm 2004
Oil on canvas 41 x 31.3 cm
Collection of Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller, Cologne
Lapeyrouse Umbrella 2004
Oil on canvas 31.3 x 41 cm
Private collection, Munich, Courtesy CFA, Berlin
Swamped 1990
Black and red-brown chalk 57 x 78.8 cm
The British Museum, London
Untitled (Study for Milky Way) 1990
Watercolour on paper 52.1 x 63.5 cm
Private Collection, Germany
Rosedale 1991
Oil on paper 57.2 x 73.7 cm
Mima and Ceśar Reyes Collection, Puerto Rico
Study for Young Bean Farmer 1991
Oil on paper 57.2 x 72.4 cm
Mima and Ceśar Reyes Collection, Puerto Rico
Untitled 1991
Oil on paper 29.9 x 21.6 cm
Private Collection, Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Untitled (Figure in Green Jacket) 1991
Mixed media on paper 47 x 35.6 cm
Private Collection, Germany
Study for Concrete Cabin 1992
Mixed media on paper 57.2 x 72.4 cm
Private Collection, Germany
Unité 1992
Mixed media on paper 72.4 x 57.8 cm
Collection of Stanley and Gail Hollander, Los Angeles
Swamped 1994
Pencil on paper 20.3 x 24.8 cm
Private Collection, Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Blotter 1995
Acrylic on paper 135.3 x 27.9 cm
Collection Manfred P. Herrmann, Berlin
Study for Camp Forestia I 1996
Oil on paper 72.8 x 57.6 cm
Collection Bremer Landesbank
Study for White Creep 1996
Oil on paper 36.8 x 57.8 cm
Private Collection, Bremen
Canoe Lake 1999
Watercolour, pencil and oil on paper 38.1 x 55.9 cm
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Study for The Heart of Old San Juan 1999
Acrylic and gouache on brown paper 100.3 x 69.9 cm
Private Collection
Three Bears 1999
Ink, sugar and watercolour on paper 50.8 x 64.8 cm
Mr and Mrs W. Gaylen Weston
100 Years Ago 2001
Oil on paper 101.6 x 137.2 cm
Collection of Matt Aberle, Los Angeles
100 Years Ago 2001
Oil on paper 101.6 x 137.2 cm
Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg
Girl in Tree 2001
Oil on paper 55.9 x 38.7 cm
Private Collection, Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Girl in Tree 2001
Gouache and watercolour on paper 63.5 x 52.1 cm
Jennifer B. Stockman
House of Pictures 2001
Oil on paper 41.9 x 59.7 cm
Laura and Marshall Front Collection
Untitled 2001
Watercolour on paper 34.9 x 24.7 cm
Collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy
Untitled 2001
Oil on paper 39.4 x 56.5 cm
The Dicke Collection
100 Years Ago 2002
Oil on paper 75.8 x 55.9 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fractional and promised gift of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg
Driftwood (Yara) 2002
Watercolour on paper 55.9 x 35.7 cm
Collection of Allison and Edward Shearmur, Los Angeles, California
Grande Riviere 2002
Watercolour on paper 34.9 x 24.8 cm
Corinne Flick, London
Grande Riviere 2002
Oil on paper 17.8 x 25.4 cm
Annabelle Selldorf
Guest House 1 2002
Oil on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Guest House 3 2002
Watercolour on paper 57.2 x 72.4 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Fisher Endowment, 2007.85
Ooty Boathouse 2002
Oil on paper 56.5 x 39.4 cm
Private Collection, Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Untitled 2002
Pencil and ink on paper 50.4 x 66 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased with funds provided by The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach, Director, 2003
Untitled 2002
Ink on paper 36.2 x 24.1 cm
Private Collection, Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Untitled 2002
Oil on cut paper 64.8 x 50.2 cm
Private Collection, Dallas, Texas.
Untitled (Double Portrait) 2002
Oil on paper 63.5 x 52.3 cm (irregular)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2003
J.M. at Paragon 2003
Oil on paper 35.2 x 25 cm
Collection of Jonathan Meese
Untitled 2003
Charcoal and oil on paper 44.5 x 90.2 cm
Collection of Rosette Delug
Man Dressed as Bat 2004
Oil on paper 72.4 x 57.8 cm
Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
Maracas 2004
Oil on paper 72.2 x 57.5 cm
Deutsche Bank Art Collection
Maracas II 2004
Oil on paper 72.6 x 57.5 cm
Deutsche Bank Art Collection
Paragon 2005
Oil on paper 60.3 x 50.3 cm
The Rachofsky Collection
Paragon 2005
Oil on paper 58.2 x 67.4 cm
Sharon and Michael Young
Untitled 2007
Oil on canvas 50.5 x 38.5 cm
Private Collection
Untitled 2007
Oil on paper 22 x 19 cm
Private Collection
Untitled 2007
Oil on card 56 x 36 cm
Private Collection
Moruga 2007
Oil on canvas 400 x 500mm
Private Collection