Untitled
- Artist: Peter Doig
- Date: 2008
- Medium: Oil paint on paper
- Dimensions: support: 246 x 350 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Untitled” by Peter Doig, painted in 2008. It’s a small oil‑on‑paper work, just over 24 × 35 cm, that bursts with colour and loose brushwork. Doig often turns everyday scenes into something almost dream‑like, and here the viewer is drawn into a quiet moment of sport—an adult man, perhaps, engaged in a game of table tennis, surrounded by leafy branches and subtle foliage. The painting feels like a snapshot of leisure, the subtle interplay of light on plant life hinting at a fleeting instant. Though the title remains deliberately ambiguous, the subject tags—adults, leaf, branch, sport, table tennis—invite us to consider the simple pleasures of a day out. The piece was presented by the artist in 2013 and has travelled from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to Montréal’s Museum of Fine Arts before finding its current home in the Tate Modern’s Studio room, where it continues to capture quiet, everyday moments in vivid colour.
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Untitled is in the collection of Tate Modern on Bankside, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
