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Peter Doig, Canoe-Lake
 
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TITLE:  Canoe-Lake
ARTIST:  Peter Doig (Scottish, b.1959)
WORK DATE:  1997-1998
PERIOD:  20th century
CATEGORY:  Paintings
MATERIALS:  Oil on Canvas
SIZE:  h: 200 x w: 300 cm / h: 78.7 x w: 118.1 in
STYLE:  Contemporary
PRICE:  Not for Sale
GALLERY:  Saatchi Gallery  +44 (0)20 7811 3070  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  Themes of magical realism stream through Doig’s work, capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquillity, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream. Drawing from his Canadian childhood, and one of the spookier scenes from Friday the 13th, Doig’s canoes have become a seminal image in his work; their reflection in the water, like a double life, is a fantasy mirror to the unknown. Canoe-Lake is rendered with unsettling perfection: capturing not just a spying view over a fence, but the strange echoing silence of drifting on a lake, the impossible stillness of the current, and the cloying warmth of late-summer air.

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