Peter Doig (b. 1959), Snowballed Boy

Peter Doig (b. 1959)
Snowballed Boy
signed twice, titled and dated '"SNOW BALLED BOY" Peter Doig '95 PETER DOIG' (on the reverse)
oil on plywood
23 ¾ x 15 7/8in. (60.2 x 40.2cm.)
Painted in 1995

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Provenance
Collection of Rainer and Theresia Haarmann, Neuwittenbeck, Germany.
Saatchi Collection, London (acquired in 2002).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 10 February 2006, lot 110.
Acquired by the present owner in 2006.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE DONALD R. SOBEY FOUNDATION

Literature
P. Ellis and C. Saatchi, 100: The Work That Changed British Art, London 2003, p. 209, no. 50 (illustrated in colour, p. 108).
C. Lampert and R. Shiff (eds.), Peter Doig, New York 2011, pp. 84, 295 and 331 (illustrated in colour, p. 85).

Exhibited
Kiel, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Peter Doig. Blizzard Seventy-Seven, 1998, p. 134, no. 20 (illustrated in colour, p. 103). This exhibition later travelled to Nuremberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery.
London, Tate Britain, Peter Doig, 2008-2009, p. 157 (illustrated in colour, p. 108). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, ARC/ Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris and Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.