'The Sprawling Wilderness of Memory' | Peter Doig’s 'Camp Forestia'

Counted among the artist’s finest paintings of the 1990s, this work speaks directly to the act of art-making. Alastair Sooke discusses the 1996 masterpiece from a pivotal period in Peter Doig’s practice.

Against an inky forest, a cabin is reflected in a lake below. Its windows are dark as if long abandoned; the scene is deserted, save for an almost imperceptible figure in the foreground. Camp Forestia is a masterwork dating from a pivotal period in Peter Doig’s practice. Studies are held in the Tate, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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