The artist set to collaborate on Dior upcoming collection

The artist who will collaborate and inspire the graphics of Dior Homme's FW21 collection, which will be presented on Friday, January 22, will be Peter Doig, one of the most renowned living painters in the world. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold for $11.3 million; then there was The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for 12 million, and in 2015 it was Country Rock that sold for 15 million – a record figure. His abstract and multidisciplinary approach has many of those elements that usually attract the interest of Kim Jones, whose gallerist instinct has led Dior to collaborate with artists such as Daniel Arsham, Kawa, Hajime Sorayama and Amoako Boafo. Doig shared on Instagram a tiny sneak peek of his artwork for the collection. 

Born in Scotland and then raised between Trinidad, Canada and London, Doig specialized in painting abstract landscapes inspired by newspaper photos, famous architectural works (he signed a series of paintings inspired by the buildings of Le Corbusier) the works of Munch, Klimt and Monet and even films. His 1997 painting Canoe Lake was even inspired by the iconic horror Friday the 13th.

Today his works are on display in museums such as the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the Met and MoMa in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Like other artists already chosen by Jones, his period of greatest recognition was the 1990s – a period during which Doig gave new relevance to the pictorial arts.