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Peter Doig Untitled Portfolio 2004 The complete set of six aquatints with etching in colors, on Zerkall paper, with full margins, all S. 21 x 15 in. (53.3 x 38.1 cm). all signed and dated '04 in pencil, published by Griffelkunst, Hamburg, all in excellent condition, all unframed
Catalogue Essay The final edition size will be announced in a catalogue published in the future. 313 A 1 - Pelican 313 A 2 - Haus der Bilder 313 A 3 - Figure by a River 313 A 4 - Black Palm 313 A 5 - Fisherman 313 A 6 - Boathouse This group of etchings came about whilst working with the printer Fritze Margull. He came down to Port of Spain, Trinidad where I have set up house and studio. We built a small make shift studio in the corner of a large warehouse space - we had a small table top press that we used to proof the plates with. The images for the etchings for the most part are relatively new ones for me although I have made some drawings, and water colours using similar imagery. I am in the process of using the images to make larger scale paintings now. I have found that making etchings prior to making paintings is a useful way to familiarize myself with the subject and imagery. The images themselves for the most part are not from Trinidad. I wanted to avoid direct references to here - it is such an imagistically and culturally rich country that I feel like I need time to absorb it - I don't want to rush. Having said this I did choose images that could easily be from here...for the most part the images come from post cards of India that I bought about five years ago in a London junk shop. They were quite old and for the most part anonymous - no place names. They seemed exotic and at the same time sad and reminded me of aspects of Trinidad. The one image that does derive from here is Black Palm. This is based on a photograph that I took four years ago - the first time I had returned to Trinidad since living her as a child in the 1960's. I used the same tree and lagoon in a painting called Grande Riviere. I visited the same place last weekend and the seemingly impossible angled twisted palm has now fallen into the lagoon. The figure in Haus Der Bilder is from a small Daumier painting I saw in the Art Institute in Chicago. The figure dragging the dead pelican was dragging a fishing net in the Indian post card - I saw a man killing and dragging a pelican along the beach here; dinner. The figure with the beard who looks shaman or guru like was about the size of a match head in a post card amongst hundereds of others - although he was one of the most isolated of the figures he also seemed the most enigmatic. Peter Doig Port of Spain, March 2004. Read More Artist Bio Peter Doig Scottish • 1959 One of the leading pioneers of contemporary figurative painting, artist Peter Doig is revered for his eclectic use of color and texture to depict ominous, ethereal and mysterious environments within nature. His practice maintains a thin and balanced line between landscape and figure, superimposing photographic imagery and memories, both real and imagined. Born in Scotland, raised in Canada and now based in Trinidad, Doig is well-versed in overlaying the aesthetics of the diverse cultures that have shaped his career. As a nod to abstraction as well as the concreteness of his settings, Doig allows the texture of painting to manipulate the images he uses and amplify the visual impact of these scenes. View More Works