Peter Doig - Contemporary Artists

The Architect's Home In The Ravine

Peter Doig, The Architect's Home In The Ravine The Saatchi Gallery
 

Peter Doig

The Architect's Home In The Ravine

1991, Oil on Canvas

200 x 275cm

Plainly in view but physically inaccessible, Doig half obliterates The Architect’s Home in the Ravine with an underbrush as dense as a half-finished Pollock and the scene becomes foreboding: something out of an Edward Hopper or an Andrew Wyeth painting. With all the richness of the distant woods and the stunning architecture to look at, it’s the twigs which steal the show. Doig’s painting reinvents the way a picture is meant to be looked at.
 
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