The fruits of Doig and Jones’ joint effort were unveiled in the Autumn/Winter 2021 collection, previewed on Dior’s website yesterday. Ahead of that; a short guide to the life and work of the notoriously private painter of dreams.In 2007, Sotheby’s sold Doig’s haunting painting of a canoe drifting across a swamp – inspired by the penultimate scene in– for £5.7 million.
At the time, Doig was relatively unknown, more used to seeing his works fetch several thousands. The auction offrom Charles Saatchi’s collection to a Russian billionaire, made the press, blue-chip galleries and even Doig himself do a double take. In reality, labelling him an overnight success was unfair. By 2007, Doig was already a Trustee of Tate, had narrowly lost out on the Turner Prize to2. His credibility hinges on his refusal to do what’s cool
Born in 1959 in Edinburgh and raised between Canada and Trinidad, Doig spent the 80s studying art at Wimbledon, Saint Martin’s and Chelsea. But at the moment he graduated, painting was dead.was being celebrated as art for a new generation obsessed with money, sex and death. By contrast, Doig only managed to sell one or two of his landscape paintings priced at £1,000 each during his graduation show that year.
He stayed faithful, though, and a few savvy dealers began hedging their bets on his unfashionableness. Fast-forward to 2007 and when the YBAs’ bubble was ready to pop, Doig’s art was a humble antidote.
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