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An avid winter sportsman, Peter Doig lived in Zermatt for six weeks in 2020 and four months in 2021, working out of a studio on the mountain. With his inventive, painterly approach, the artist uses alpine imagery and traditional printmaking techniques to investigate landscape, material, and form.
Unframed
Edition of 20
Signed
5 APs
5 PPs

① Artwork:

First Cat Zermatt

An avid winter sportsman, Peter Doig lived in Zermatt for six weeks in 2020 and four months in 2021, working out of a studio on the mountain. With his inventive, painterly approach, the artist uses alpine imagery and traditional printmaking techniques to investigate landscape, material, and form.

This diverse series of etchings reflect a self-referential process of experiment and innovation in which works continuously evolve into their final form. Together, this body of work pays homage to Doig’s passion for skiing and connection to Zermatt while also referencing a rich tradition of alpine painting in Western art that began in the 15th century and was carried forward by masters such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Emil Nolde, and Ferdinand Holder.

Peter Doig's figurative paintings have an enigmatic, dreamlike quality. The artist draws inspiration from childhood memories of growing up in Canada as well as his more recent life spent in Trinidad. Doig combines these personal memories with images sourced from photographs and films to craft works that exist in fantastical, timeless spaces—creating compositions that feel both personal and universal.

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12 inches
14 inches

③ Artist:

Peter Doig

Peter Doig's figurative paintings have an enigmatic, dreamlike quality. The artist draws inspiration from childhood memories of growing up in Canada as well as his more recent life spent in Trindad. Doig combines these personal memories with images sourced from photographs and films to craft works that exist in fantastical, timeless spaces—creating compositions that feel both personal and universal.

BIO:

Peter Doig, born in 1959, is one of the world's most renowned living figurative painters. Speaking about the artist, art critic Jonathan Jones said: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity."

Doig's work is in the collections of numerous international institutions, including: the British Museum in London, UK; the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, France; the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Netherlands; the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Canada; the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; MoMA in New York City; The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas.

Peter Doig made his first print with Two Palms in 2008. 

Peter Doig:
First Cat Zermatt, 2021
Etching with aquatint
14.0 × 12.0 inches /