The exhibition will explore how Doig recasts and reinvents traditions and practices of painting to create his own highly distinctive works. Visitors will be able to consider Doig’s contemporary works in the light of paintings by earlier artists in The Courtauld’s collection that are important for him, such as those by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists who are at its heart have been a touchstone for his own painting …. Stopping short of claiming that the collection “influenced” Doig (which would require stylistic analysis), it states:ĭoig has long admired the collection of The Courtauld Gallery. The relevance of one of the world’s most expensive living artists to the Courtauld’s famed Impressionist-heavy collection is established with some very careful wording in the press release. With its new show of recent paintings by Scottish artist Peter Doig, it boldly muscles into Tate Modern territory by promoting new, cutting-edge work - so cutting edge that the paintings weren’t even finished a week before the opening. This programming clearly aims to put this under-appreciated London gallery firmly into the cultural mindset. LONDON - Since its 2021 reopening after a £57m refurbishment, the Courtauld has mounted an impressive selection of exhibitions, including thoughtful and left-field studies such as Van Gogh: Self-Portraits and, most recently, the astonishing Fuseli and the Modern Woman.

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