Peter Doig
(b. 1959)
 

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. He has settled in Trinidad since 2002.
In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction. Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doig

100 years ago
2001
Oil on canvas
229 x 359 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/c4j7ex

A photograph of the prison-island of Carrera, off Trinidad serves to evoke the symbolist metaphysics of Arnold Böcklin's Island of the Dead (1880-1886). Doig transposes in the same way the sleeve illustration of an album by The AlIman Brothers Band, an American rock band of the 1970s; in a melancholy world close to Edvard Munch's, he isolates the figure of bassist Berry Oakley in a huge canoe, whose reflection shudders like flame on the water.