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Peter Doig

1959 - Today

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Peter Doig ( DOYG; born 17 April 1959) is a painter of Scottish nationality, but who spent a nomadic childhood between Trinidad, Canada, and Britain. He settled in Trinidad with his family between 2002 and 2021, when he moved back to London. In 2007, his painting White Canoe (1990-91) sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Doig has received more than 586,375 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Peter Doig is the 1,814th most popular painter (down from 1,672nd in 2019), the 3,874th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,777th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Painter.

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  • 54.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Peter Doig ranks 1,814 out of 2,023. Before her are Giovanni d'Alemagna, Frederick Sandys, Miroslav Kraljević, Maria Röhl, Konstantin Yuon, and Markus Lüpertz. After her are John Marin, Kanō Hōgai, Francisco Toledo, Charles Dana Gibson, Betzy Akersloot-Berg, and Alice Neel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Peter Doig ranks 284. Before her are Ameenah Gurib, Hennadiy Kernes, Hallgrímur Helgason, Jim Kerr, Beth Broderick, and Juan José Campanella. After her are Vladimir Yashchenko, Thomas Allofs, Rineke Dijkstra, Jadranko Prlić, Barbara Krause, and Shawn Weatherly.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Doig ranks 3,874 out of 8,785. Before her are Fred Frith (1949), Ronnie Rooke (1911), Jimmy Hogan (1882), Muriel Robb (1878), Stanley Holloway (1890), and Jonathan Glazer (1965). After her are Sharleen Spiteri (1967), Havergal Brian (1876), H. B. Warner (1876), Nicholas Culpeper (1616), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), and Alex Kingston (1963).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Peter Doig ranks 88. Before her are Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760), Mary Moser (1744), Roger Dean (1944), Peter Scott (1909), Peter Blake (1932), and Frederick Sandys (1829). After her are Edwin Long (1829), William Powell Frith (1819), Thomas Hudson (1701), Thomas Phillips (1770), George Clausen (1852), and Samuel Palmer (1805).

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