Peter Doig - Contemporary Artists

Canoe-Lake

Peter Doig, Canoe-Lake The Saatchi Gallery
 

Peter Doig

Canoe-Lake

1997-8, Oil on Canvas

200 x 300cm

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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