The Street, Peter Doig accompanies the group exhibition of the same name held at Gagosian, New York in 2025, curated by the artist.
Taking as its point of departure Balthus’s 1933 painting, loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition was a portrait of urban life seen through the eyes of painters. Featuring streets painted from life and others created in the imagination, it included works by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, Edward Burra, Vija Celmins, Prunella Clough, René Daniëls, Giorgio de Chirico, Beauford Delaney, Denzil Forrester, Jean Hélion, Satoshi Kojima, Lotte Maiwald, Mark Rothko, and Martin Wong, alongside three major paintings by Doig himself.
The catalogue reproduces the 23 works in the exhibition, accompanied by written reflections by Doig, alongside installation photography. It includes a foreword by Larry Gagosian and two conversations between Doig and art historian Richard Shiff: The first focuses on the details and mysteries of Balthus’s The Street and the second explores the exhibition’s other works and their meaningful juxtapositions. The volume also documents a concurrent presentation of drawings and painted studies related to Doig’s painting Lions (Ghost) (2024) titled They do the burying: A cabinet of works by Peter Doig.
Gagosian, 108pp, 23cm x 21cm, illustrated hardcover, 2025
