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Provenance

Victoria Miro Gallery, London Acquired by the present owner from the above Catalogue Note “Sometimes they appear far off and indistinct: skiers on a distant slope, a man on a jetty, a figure on a boat or silhouetted on a rock, or smudged in a white-out snowstorm. Sometimes the distance between us and them is measurable not in yards or miles, but in years, as if the painting were looking backwards to another time. A painting may be filled with things but still record an emptiness, a hollow unease, a kind of blankness. To the viewer looking at Doig’s paintings, it is a sense of exclusion, even of exile.” - Adrian Searle (Adrian Searle, Kitty Scott & Catherine Grenier, Peter Doig, New York, 2007 , p. 55)

Catalog summary

Peter Doig Winter Landscape signed twice, titled and dated '94 on the reverse oil on canvas 12 by 16 in. 30.5 by 40.5 cm. Provenance Victoria Miro Gallery, London Acquired by the present owner from the above Catalogue Note “Sometimes they appear far off and indistinct: skiers on a distant slope, a man on a jetty, a figure on a boat or silhouetted on a rock, or smudged in a white-out snowstorm. Sometimes the distance between us and them is measurable not in yards or miles, but in years, as if the painting were looking backwards to another time. A painting may be filled with things but still record an emptiness, a hollow unease, a kind of blankness. To the viewer looking at Doig’s paintings, it is a sense of exclusion, even of exile.” - Adrian Searle (Adrian Searle, Kitty Scott & Catherine Grenier, Peter Doig, New York, 2007 , p. 55)