Untitled
- Artist: Peter Doig
- Date: 2008
- Medium: Oil paint on paper
- Dimensions: support: 248 x 351 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is “Untitled” by Peter Doig, created in 2008. The oil on paper panel captures a hazy, almost dreamlike interior. A solitary figure sits by a table‑tennis table, wearing shorts, with a bat perched against a wall. Doig layers gestural brushwork over a lightly wooded backdrop, blurring the boundary between real and imagined. The painting’s palette is muted, yet the interplay of light creates a subtle emotional resonance. Though titled “Untitled,” the image invites viewers to imagine everyday moments refracted through a painterly lens. It was presented by the artist in 2013 and has travelled internationally before returning to London, exemplifying Doig’s fascination with the fleeting nature of memory and place.
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.
