Room guide: Room 7
These recent works were made in Trinidad where Doig has lived since 2002. Landscape and the figure continue to be the focus of Doig’s paintings though now combined in ever more strange configurations. As always, the artist’s idea for a painting is stimulated by incidental, everyday, details that he has noticed and photographed: deriving from disparate visual sources that may superficially connect to Trinidadian subjects. Whatever his starting point, the motif is filtered through multiple studies, and is subject to continual change driven unpredictably by what happens when the paint is applied to the canvas.
Selected works from this room:
Other works from this room:
J.M. at Paragon 2004
Oil on canvas 275 x 200 cm
Goetz Collection
Metropolitain (House of Pictures) 2004
Oil on canvas 275.3 x 200 cm
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Erworben von PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne für die Sammlung Moderne Kunst
Music of the Future 2002-7
Oil on linen 200 x 330 cm
Private Collection
Untitled 2006
Distemper on linen 300 x 350 cm
Private Collection
Purple Jesus (Black Rainbow) 2004
Oil on canvas 120 x 70 cm
Private Collection
Pelican Island 2006
Oil on canvas 120 x 70 cm
Private Collection
Untitled (Jungle Painting) 2007
Oil on linen 275 x 200 cm
Private Collection
Untitled (Paramin) 2004
Oil on linen 58.2 x 42.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
Portrait (Under Water) 2007
Oil on canvas 830 x 700 mm
Private Collection
Portrait (Beard) 2007
Oil on canvas 830 x 700 mm
Private Collection
Dark Girl 2007
Oil on canvas 1300 x 800 mm
Private Collection