11/08/2026
Peter Doig created the monumental Painting for a Poet (DW) as one of the centrepieces in his acclaimed exhibition, House of Music, at Serpentine South Gallery, London.
The composition takes the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice as its architectural stage. Yet, the scene is unmistakably filtered through Doig’s layered imagination: at the composition’s heart sits a lion. The same recurrent creature stalks his Trinidadian paintings, here transplanted to the grandeur of a European civic space and charged with the heraldic weight of Saint Mark’s emblem. Explore more online
Artwork: Painting for a Poet, 2026. ©