Peter Doig is a contemporary artist born in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's

Sotheby's

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 for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, and in 1962 moved with his family to Trinidad

Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada

Canada

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. He went to London

London

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 in 1979 to study fine art at the Wimbledon School of Art, St Martin's School of Art (where he became friends with the artist Billy Childish

Billy Childish

Billy Childish is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist...

) and Chelsea School of Art, where he received an MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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.