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Peter Doig at the Musée d'Orsay
Peter Doig at the Musée d'Orsay
Peter Doig and the Musée d’Orsay have brought together, in one of the museum’s iconic domed rooms, a group of large paintings that were made over the two decades the artist lived in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and a selection of works he has chosen from the Musée d’Orsay’s collection.
His selection is consistently unpredictable, and include works by Cézanne, Manet, Seurat, Pissarro, Renoir, Gaugin and Monet, represented not by a landscape but by “Camille on Her Death Bed” (1879).
Time Period:
20th century
Themes:
A leading figure in the revival of figurative painting, Peter Doig (born 1959) has given the 21st century some of its newest icons. His solitary figures, ethereal landscapes, night scenes and otherworldly lights, reflect century-old modernist questions, while suggesting a new visual language suited for the uniqueness of the contemporary experience.
Like his nineteenth and early twentieth century predecessors, Peter Doig draws his inspiration from his everyday life. His subjects come from his immediate world : the view from his studio window, a passerby, scenes from his commute into Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), his wife, and children. Doig reconstructs these places and moments from memory and snapshots that he has taken with his mobile phone.
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