Self-Portrait (Fernandes Compound)

Peter Doig

2015-23

Oil paint on canvas

130 x 80 cm

Peter Doig’s Trinidad studio was part of the former Fernandes Rum factory complex in Port of Spain. He often painted there at night. In this self-portrait, the artist appears in shadow against the light of the two moons seen through the window bars entwined with a climbing plant.

Private collection

© Peter Doig. All rights reserved, DACS 2023. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates