Peter Doig’s 'Cobourg 3 + 1 More': ‘A Veil of Memory’
The artist’s former teacher, art critic Adrian Searle, discusses a work ‘so rich he could look at it for days’ — a highlight from our 7 March Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
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‘It’s this place of the imagination as much as a real place,’ says art critic Adrian Searle, discussing the landscape of mist and snow in Peter Doig’s Cobourg 3 + 1 More, a highlight of Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 7 March.
The artist was one of Searle’s first pupils when he taught at London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and Searle recalls ‘a cowboy character, full of life’. Although he studied in London, the Edinburgh-born artist spent his early childhood in Trinidad and, later, in cities across Canada, whose vast, snow-whitened landscapes came to shape his later canvases.
Cobourg, the Ontario town from which his 1994 painting takes its name, is one of the places where Doig’s family settled. Searle comments: ‘I think a lot of the paintings he was making at this time do capture specific memories of youth, but they go beyond the anecdotal. If you like, the painting could be about the act of remembering and how fugitive that is.
‘Doig discovered what an apt medium painting is to try to capture something like memory or mood,’ Searle continues. ‘Paint is fluid: it resists you a bit, but it flows and curdles in places. It’s infinitely malleable, like memory.’ In Cobourg 3 + 1 More, Doig’s figures seem to ‘swim’ out at the viewer through a translucent field of white snow that appears, impossibly, to fall out in front of the painting.
‘Our interior worlds are coming in and out of focus all the time and that’s exactly what’s happening in this painting,’ says Searle, describing the work’s shift between ‘clarity and indistinction’. While making his snow paintings, Doig commented: ‘I was looking at a lot of Monet, where there is this incredibly extreme, apparently exaggerated use of colour’. Here again, an ‘interior world’ emerges: Doig has talked about ‘painting the space behind the eyes’, capturing the darts of colour that can, with concentration, appear to play across the insides of closed eyelids.
In Cobourg 3 + 1 More, Doig captures the transitory, half-way state between waking and sleeping — between day and night, winter and spring — that lies at the heart of his practice. It is a suggestion of a memory just out of reach, an evocation of the irretrievability of youth; a work, says Searle, that has an ‘orchestral quality’.
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Peter Doig in conversation with Jasper Sharp
Peter Doig (born 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is among the most acclaimed figurative painters working today. He spent his childhood in Canada, studied in London, and has lived and worked in Trinidad since 2002. Shortly after graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1990, Doig was awarded the prestigious Whitechapel Artist Prize. A few years later, in 1994, he was nominated for the Turner Prize. He has gone on to have major solo exhibitions at institutions including Tate Britain, London, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Schirn Kunsthalle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Louisiana, Copenhagen, and the Fondation Beyeler, and his work can be found in many of their collections.
This year’s talks programme is generously supported by the Hotel Sans Souci, the Contemporary Patrons of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Media Partner PARNASS - Das Kunstmagazin.
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Peter Doig (geb. 1959 in Edinburgh, Schottland) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Malern der Gegenwart. Seine Kindheit verbrachte er in Kanada, sein Studium absolvierte er in London. Seit 2002 lebt und arbeitet er auf der karibischen Insel Trinidad. Kurz nachdem er 1990 das Chelsea College of Art and Design abschlossen hatte, wurde er mit dem prestigeträchtigen Whitechapel Artist Prize ausgezeichnet. Einige Jahre später, 1994, wurde er für den Turner Prize nominiert. Er hatte große Einzelausstellungen in Institutionen wie der Tate Britain, London, dem Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, der Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, der Pinakothek der Moderne, München, der Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, dem Louisiana, Kopenhagen, und der Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Sein Werk findet sich auch in vielen Sammlungen dieser Institutionen.
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David Roberts
David Roberts (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838-1840). This work, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.
David Roberts was born at Stockbridge, Edinburgh. At the age of 10, he was apprenticed by his father, a shoemaker, for seven years to a house painter and decorator named Gavin Beugo. During this time he studied art in the evenings. His first paid job came in 1815, when he moved to Perth for a year to work as a decorator.
In 1816, the Pantheon Theatre in Edinburgh took him on as a stage designer's assistant; this was the beginning of his career as a painter and designer of stage scenery. In 1819, he became the scene painter at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. There Roberts met the Scottish actress Margaret McLachlan, said to be the illegitimate daughter of a Highland gypsy girl and a clan chief.. They married in 1820. Although the marriage did not last long, it produced Roberts' only daughter, Christine, who was born 1821.
In 1822 the Coburg Theatre, now the Old Vic in London, offered Roberts a job as a scenic designer and stage painter. He sailed from Leith with his wife and the six-month-old Christine and settled in London. After working for a while at the Coburg Theatre, Roberts moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to create dioramas and panoramas with Stanfield.
In 1824, he exhibited another view of Dryburgh Abbey at the British Institution and sent two works to the first exhibition of the newly formed Society of British Artists. In the autumn of 1824 he visited Normandy. His paintings based on this trip began to lay the foundation of his reputation; one of them, a view of Rouen Cathedral, sold for 80 guineas.
In 1831, the Society of British Artists elected him as their president, The next year he traveled in Spain and Tangiers. He returned at the end of 1833 with a supply of sketches that he elaborated into attractive and popular paintings. The British Institution exhibited his Interior of Seville Cathedral in 1834, and he sold it for £300. He executed a fine series of Spanish illustrations for the Landscape Annual of 1836. Then in 1837 a selection of his Picturesque Sketches in Spain was reproduced by lithography.
Travel to Egypt and Holy Land
It was J.M.W. Turner who managed to persuade him to abandon scene painting and devote himself to becoming a true artist. Roberts set sail for Egypt on 31 August 1838, a few years after Owen Jones. His intent was to produce drawings that he could later use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs to sell to the public. Egypt was much in vogue at this time, and travelers, collectors and lovers of antiquities were keen to buy works inspired by the East or depicting the great monuments of ancient Egypt.
Roberts made a long tour in Egypt, Nubia, the Sinai, the Holy Land, Jordan and Lebanon. Throughout, he produced a vast collection of drawings and watercolour sketches.
Muhammad Ali Pasha received Roberts in Alexandria on 16 May 1839, shortly before his return to Britain. He later reproduced this scene (apparently from memory) in Volume 3 of Egypt & Nubia.
On his return to Britain, Roberts worked with lithographer Louis Haghe from 1842 to 1849 to produce the lavishly illustrated plates of the Sketches in the Holy Land and Syria, 1842-1849 and Egypt & Nubia series. He funded the work through advance subscriptions which he solicited directly. The scenery and monuments of Egypt and Holy Land were fashionable but had hitherto been hardly touched by British artists, and so Roberts quickly accumulated 400 subscription commitments.
His last volume of illustrations, Italy, Classical, Historical and Picturesque, was published in 1859. He also executed, by command of Queen Victoria, a picture of the opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851. In. 1839 he was elected an associate and in 1841 a full member of the Royal Academy; and in 1858 he was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. The last years of his life were occupied with a series of views of London from the Thames. He had executed six of these, and was at work upon a picture of St Paul's Cathedral, when he died suddenly of apoplexy.
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Sophie Gordon: Victoria and Albert as Collectors of Photographs
Sophie Gordon, Senior Curator of Photographs, The Royal Collection, The Royal Library, Windsor Castle presents her lecture 'Victoria and Albert as Collectors of Photographs' at the Frick Collection on Friday, May 8, 2015. Part of a series of lectures from the symposium Seen through the Collector's Lens: 150 Years of Photography presented by the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection on Friday and Saturday, May 8–9, 2015.
This video is part of a series of lectures from the symposium 'Seen through the Collector's Lens: 150 Years of Photography' presented by the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection on Friday and Saturday, May 8–9, 2015.
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 -- 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
George was a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. From 1877 to 1891, he served in the Royal Navy. On the death of Victoria in 1901, George's father became King Edward VII, and George was made Prince of Wales. On his father's death in 1910, he succeeded as King-Emperor of the British Empire. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar.
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00:15:47 5.1 National politics
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George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was third in the line of succession behind his father, the Prince of Wales, and his own elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the death of his grandmother in 1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the British Empire as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910.
George V's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He had smoking-related health problems throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.
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