Figure in Mountain Landscape II

West Entrance Hall, first floor (Lenfest Hall/West Foyer)

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Figure in Mountain Landscape II

1998-1999

Peter Doig (British, born 1959)

Peter Doig developed this work from a 1930s black-and-white photograph of Canada's most famous painter, Franklin Carmichael, sketching outdoors. The romantic subject of the artist inspired by the landscape, common in nineteenth-century art, assumes new mystery and uncertainty as it is filtered through photography and rendered in eccentric colors on a dramatic scale.

West Entrance Hall, first floor (Lenfest Hall/West Foyer)

Object Details

Title:

Figure in Mountain Landscape II

Date:

1998-1999

Artist:

Peter Doig (British, born 1959)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

7 feet 6 1/4 inches × 11 feet 9 1/4 inches (229.2 × 358.8 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by the Committee on Twentieth-Century Art, 1999

Accession Number:

1999-52-1

Geography:

Made in England, Europe

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