Peter Doig Untitled (Canoe) / Aquatint / signed, numbered / edition 500
Year: | 2008 |
Format: | 75 x 64,9 cm / 29.5 x 25.2 inch |
Material: | Fine Art Paper |
Method: | Aquatint |
Edition: | 500 |
Other: | signed, numbered |
Peter Doig Untitled (Canoe)
Year: | 2008 |
Format: | 75 x 64,9 cm / 29.5 x 25.2 inch |
Material: | Fine Art Paper |
Method: | Aquatint |
Edition: | 500 |
Other: | signed, numbered |
The original painting White Canoe by landscape painter Peter Doig sold at an auction in London in 2007 for 7.5 million pounds, the equivalent of just under $13 million, setting a record for the artist’s work. The phenomenal sale on June 30th was further evidence of Peter Doig’s success and has now reached new heights. White Canoe, a 1990-1991 horror film-inspired painting, is offered at Sotheby’s with an estimated price of $1.5 million. In a bidding war, the price climbs to $11.3 million. The anonymous buyer is Boris Ivanishvili, a Russian collector who made his fortune in ore mining and banking. (David Nahmad, the powerful Monaco art dealer whose son later becomes embroiled in a money-laundering scandal, says at an Art Basel luncheon in Switzerland that it’s “ridiculous” that Doigs cost more than Picassos and Dubuffets.)
Year: 2008
Format: 75 x 64,9 cm / 29.5 x 25.2 inch
Material:Fine Art Paper
Method:Aquatint
Edition:500
Other:signed, numbered