Artist field note

Peter Doig

Landscape after memory.

Gasthof by Peter Doig
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Gasthof

2002-2004

Two figures stand at a gate in a tropical night. The scene feels like an arrival whose story we have missed.

The five in one idea

Doig paints places as memory paints them: vivid, unstable and never fully recoverable.