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If Fletcher had better evidence, this would be a fascinating court case. But as it stands, the fact that they've located the family of the real Peter Doige (tal
by sparky_z 10y ago
If Fletcher had better evidence, this would be a fascinating court case. But as it stands, the fact that they've located the family of the real Peter Doige (talk about burying the lede) makes it laughably open and shut.
>Mr. Doig and his lawyers say they have identified the real artist, a man named Peter Edward Doige. He died in 2012, but his sister said he had attended Lakehead University, served time in Thunder Bay and painted.
>“I believe that Mr. Fletcher is mistaken and that he actually met my brother, Peter, who I believe did this painting,” the sister, Marilyn Doige Bovard, said in a court declaration. She said the work’s desert scene appeared to show the area in Arizona where her mother moved after a divorce and where her brother spent some time. She recognized, she said, the saguaro cactus in the painting.
>The prison’s former art teacher recognized a photograph of Ms. Bovard’s brother as a man who had been in his class and said he had watched him paint the painting, according to the teacher’s affidavit."
- megablast 10y agoSure, but that does not explain the remarkable similarities between the 2 artists work.
- huuu 10y agoCan you point out some similarities? I'm looking at the paintings of Peter Doig but I have a hard time finding something that looks like the painting of Peter Edward Doige. The strokes, technique, use of color. They are all different.
- elcapitan 10y agoI have two books about Peter Doig and liked his pictures for quite some time, and I was also stunned seeing the picture in question attributed to him. Are there any other pictures of that other artist? Maybe I'm missing something. The closest resemblance seems to be the name.
- dagw 10y agoWell this picture is proposed be from when he was a teenager, before he ever went to art school and long before he became a professional artist. It's not unreasonable to assume that his art style and technique can have changed significantly since then.
- elcapitan 10y agoOk, I see. That makes the attribution totally bogus of course, because it could be attributable to just anyone then. Like taking the paintings of a 5 year old and saying it's a very early Renoir or something.