Trinidad-based Peter Doig is the highest-selling living British artist. And Canadian, sort of
Trinidad-based artist Peter Doig set a sales record this May whenSwamped, a painting of his from 1990 that alludes to both the climactic scene from the horror film Friday the 13th and the death by drowning of Group of Seven painter Tom Thompson, was sold at a Christie's auction for $26-million (U.S.) Terence Dick reports…
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