RED HOUSE

© Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.

RED HOUSE 1996

Peter Doig (1959 – )

Details

Dimension
44 x 54 CM
Media
ETCHING
Accession number
P6709

Summary

All ten etchings derive from Doig’s own paintings from the period 1992 to early 1995. The artist describes the process as ‘a way of cataloguing some of the work I have made over the previous years’. While all the etchings originate from the paintings, the paintings in turn originate from photographs, mostly taken by artist. All but three prints relate to Canada, the country of his childhood. Red Housewas taken from a newspaper photograph of a bombed house in Bosnia.

The portfolio was proofed and editioned at Hope (Sufferance) Press in London, and published in an edition of 35.

In Print Contemporary Art from the Paragon Press, The British Council 2001 Text © Patrick Elliott

Glossary

  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.

  • Edition

    All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.

  • Photograph

    A permanent image taken by means of the chemical action of light on light-sensitive surfaces.

  • Portfolio

    A set of pictures (as drawings, photographs or prints) either bound in book form or loose in a folder. These can be by the same artist or individual works by a selection of artists. The term also refers to the folder which holds the set.

Portfolio