Peter Doig’s Camp Forestia (1996)

Counted among the artist’s finest paintings of the 1990s, this work speaks directly to the act of art-making. Alastair Sooke discusses the 1996 masterpiece from a pivotal period in Peter Doig’s practice. Against an inky forest, a cabin is reflected in a lake below. Its windows are dark as if long abandoned; the scene is deserted, save for an almost imperceptible figure in the foreground. Camp Forestia is a masterwork dating from a pivotal period in Peter Doig’s practice. Studies are held in the Tate, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Find out more: http://ift.tt/2k3FGRx -- Subscribe to Christie's YouTube: http://goo.gl/Vmh7Hf Sign up to Christie's Weekly: https://goo.gl/kc8qpV Follow Christie's on: Facebook: http://ift.tt/2elC9Zg Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc Instagram: http://ift.tt/2iJ3lGm Pinterest: http://ift.tt/2elCafM