The Street
This book was published on the occasion of The Street at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, a group exhibition curated by Peter Doig. Taking as its point of departure Balthus’s 1933 painting of the same name, 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 twenty-three 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.
Publisher: Gagosian
Publication date: 2025
Contributors: Peter Doig, Larry Gagosian, Richard Shiff
Designer: Graphic Thought Facility, London
Printer: Pureprint Group Limited, Uckfield, England
Format: Cloth hardcover in dust jacket
Dimensions: 9 1/4 × 8 3/8 inches (23.5 × 21.3 cm)
Pages: 108
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-951449-86-5
