Jun 10, 2021 - Sale 2572

Sale 2572 - Lot 470

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
PETER DOIG
Bather.

Digital pigment print on Somerset Radiant White Velvet 330gsm paper, 2020. 1280x970 mm; 50 1/2x38 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 21/123 in pencil, lower right. Published by the Vienna Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, Austria. A superb impression of this large print with vibrant colors.

Doig (born 1959) exhibited two paintings from his recent "Bather" theme at the Vienna Sucession in 2019, one of which is the basis for this print. The images are a homage to the American modernist painter, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), though Doig has utilized a photograph of Robert Mitchum on a beach in Trinidad (where the artist currently lives and works). Mitchum is nearly unrecognizable in Doig's representation, a dark moonlit sea and a nude, kneeling woman to his right adding an air of mystery to the scene.