Peter Doig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetPeter Doig
Scottish painter
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1959
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Profession: painter
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Peter Doig
- Peter Doig ( DOYG; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter.
- One of the most renowned living figurative painters, 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."
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