Untitled
- Artist: Peter Doig
- Date: 2008
- Medium: Oil paint on paper
- Dimensions: support: 353 x 247 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Untitled” by Peter Doig, created in 2008. It’s a small oil‑on‑paper study, just 353 × 247 mm, so you can see every brushstroke up close. Doig, known for his luminous landscapes, turns to the human figure here, capturing a gestural head with a distinctive moustache that fades into a subtle silhouette. The work feels almost like a snapshot taken mid‑gesture, with the face rendered in loose, confident strokes that suggest movement rather than a finished portrait.
Presented by the artist in 2013, it has travelled in a loaned exhibition titled *No Foreign Lands*, showing first at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, then at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Now it sits in the Tate Modern’s “In the Studio: Painting the Figure in the 21st Century” room, inviting you to explore how Doig’s subtle touch turns a simple figure into a quiet narrative of presence.
See it in person
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.
