McDonalds Fontana wins British art prize Sep 20, 2008
LONDON - The British art prize credited with launching the careers of Peter Doig and David Hockney, chose a painting of an artist slashing a canvas as the winner of its 25th award. Tokyo-born Peter McDonald's "Fontana" beat out more than 3,000 other submissions to win the 25,000 ($45,630) John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, awarded every two years. (MSNBC -- News)
Painting prize shortlist revealed Jul 25, 2008
The shortlist for the 25th John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, which has helped to establish artists including Peter Doig, has been announced. A record 3,222 paintings submitted to the biennial competition have been whittled down to a final 40. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Bondsky Prospekt Jun 8, 2008
2m on his behalf for White Canoe, which Peter Doig, a Scottish-born artist now living in Trinidad, painted in 1991. And last September, Alisher Usmanov, a senior advisor to Gazprom, paid more than $40m for the art collection put together by Mstislav Rostropovich, one of Russia s most famous cellists, and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya, taking it off the market just days before it was due to be auctioned by Sotheby's. (The Economist)
Investing in art can have big risks, big rewards May 25, 2008
" He said currently two of the hottest contemporary artists are John Currin, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate best known for paintings with provocative sexual and social themes; and Peter Doig, a Scottish artist whose paintings are among Europe's most expensive. "You've got to look beyond the hype," Mr. Gamble said. "All markets go up and down. " While the highest-profile art investors are billionaires, and multimillion-dollar art sales often make the news, art investing is accessible to... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Russian billionaire spends $120M on paintings May 20, 2008
In 2006, an anonymous Russian bidder bought Picassos Dora Maar au chat for $95 million, and high-profile works by Mark Rothko and Peter Doig also have recently sold to Russians. Every society has its foibles, said Charles Dupplin, an expert at specialist art insurer Hiscox. (MSNBC -- News)
Can you do me a quick cow's head? Mar 5, 2008
Some artists, such as Jeff Koons, have studios full of assistants working to meticulous instructions on paintings; others, like Peter Doig, paint their own. "It doesn't make it any greater or lesser a work," says Buck. (Guardian Unlimited)
* Peter Doig is off the blocks to take a late lead Feb 13, 2008
Peter Doig is off the blocks to take a late lead. Peter Doig may have been a late-starter in the art world but, as his major show at Tate Britain reveals, he is a mesmerizing artist ... Peter Doig's White Creep is pictured here at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in London, last month. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 16, 2007
Strolling the aisles, you encounter museum-quality paintings by Modigliani, Kandinsky and Klee (in the booth of Montreal gallerist Robert Landau), Picassos and Pollocks and works by Peter Doig (including one painting of an abandoned house and pool, offered at $2. 5-million all prices U.S. and promptly sold). (Globe and Mail)
The Painting of Modern Life Oct 5, 2007
Elizabeth Peyton s Arsenal, based on a photograph of Prince Harry at a football match not long after his mother s death, is brutally striking, whereas Peter Doig s Lapeyrouse Wall, a curious conflation of two photographs, has the opposite, calming, effect. Box office: 0871 663 2501. (Times Online)
Georg Baselitz Praises Damien Hirst, Gives Upside-Down View of Art World Sep 24, 2007
Baselitz: Damien Hirst, Peter Doig, Marc Quinn, and Jenny Saville. Schatz: Your works are seen as quite German. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Goldman Backer Broad Says Hedge-Fund Losses Will Cut Art Prices at Auction Aug 18, 2007
Richard Prince, Peter Doig, Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu and Marlene Dumas have had rapid price rises that may deflate if the market turns down, auctioneers and collectors said. With a self-made fortune valued at $6 billion by Forbes magazine, he'll join new investors putting $1 billion into Goldman's fund after a 28 percent decline this month, the securities firm said on Aug. 13. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Art Dealer Daniella Luxembourg Urges Buyers to Be Wary of `Uber-Marketing' Aug 8, 2007
Richard Prince, Peter Doig, Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu and Marlene Dumas have had rapid price spikes that may make them vulnerable if the market turns down, auctioneers and collectors said. Her London sale of Berlin art, ``Lonely Prophets, German Art From 1910 to the 1930s,'' includes works by Kirchner, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz and Christian Schad, being sold by Italian, German and U.S. collectors and valued at ``tens of millions of pounds,'' she said. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Weak Dollar Offers Little Comfort to Europe's Art Buyers at New York Sales May 14, 2007
Sotheby's bought six Peter Doig paintings from Charles Saatchi last year for $11 million and sold one for $11. 2 million in February, almost five times its top estimate. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Newly rich buyers from Russia and China lifting outlook at Sotheby's May 7, 2007
" Today in Marketplace by Bloomberg Prices for the top quarter of contemporary works stand more than 50 percent above the peak before a 1990 crash. And buyers from new markets are helping. In February, a man with a Russian or Eastern European accent paid 5.7 million, or $11.2 million, at Sotheby's for the Peter Doig "White Canoe" painting. It was a lucrative sale. The auction house bought half a dozen Doigs for $11 million, including the boat picture, from the collector Charles Saatchi in... (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Portrait of Jeffrey Bernard's brother to set Freud record May 5, 2007
He had set the record for being Europe's most expensive living artist, until Peter Doig, a relatively unknown British painter, overtook him in February when hisWhite Canoe fetched 5. 7m. (Independent)
What am I bid for this priceless piece? May 5, 2007
The Islington gallerist Victoria Miro, a former teacher, has donated works to her local school to help raise funds, including prints by Chris Ofili and Peter Doig. And another high-profile gallerist, Sadie Coles, has acted as auctioneer for a school fundraiser at the Groucho Club. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The ART Cologne fair shifts dates and find new competition Apr 25, 2007
tte, Neo Rauch, Peter Doig and Paul McCarthy went home empty-handed. All of this does not mean that there were no interesting discoveries to be made, but Cologne is no longer the trendsetter that once drew major gallerists and collectors from throughout the world. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Francis Bacon's $30 Million Painting May Set Record at Sotheby's Sale Mar 29, 2007
Little known Peter Doig joined the group in February when a painting sold for 5. 7 million pounds at Sotheby's. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Contemporary Art Feb 17, 2007
By the time the seventh lot, "White Canoe" by Peter Doig, came up, a tense businesslike atmosphere prevailed. Remarkable for its rhythm in line and color, Doig's picture dated "1990/1991" is the interpretation of a film still. (International Herald Tribune)
Going, going, gone for ... how much? Feb 12, 2007
7m), for a work by a living European (a Peter Doig, 5 ... A landscape by Peter Doig inspired by the film Friday the 13th went for 5 ... (Sotheby's first sold Peter Doig in 2001 for 300,000. (The Observer)
Modern art sales fetch record Feb 11, 2007
Another Briton, Peter Doig, saw his "White Canoe" go for 5. 7 million pounds, or five times its initial estimate. (NEWS.com.au)
Sotheby's Racks Up $90M at Art Sale Feb 8, 2007
The top lot Wednesday was "White Canoe" by British artist Peter Doig, which sold to an anonymous bidder for $11. 3 million - more than five times the previous record for a Doig work. (Shoals TimesDaily)
