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# Metropolitan Museum Acquires Peter Doig Painting, and a Meteorite Sells at Auction
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-peter-doig-painting-and-a-meteorite-sells-at-auction/
- Published: 2019-02-21T19:20:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:39:50.000Z
- Description: Plus, the Saint Louise Art Museums acquires a Kehinde Wiley painting, and the V&A acquires Ivan Kyncl's theatre photography archive.
- Author: Deena ElGenaidi
- Tags: News, Transactions, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

![Peter Doig, "Two Trees" (2017), oil on linen, 94 1/2 inches × 11 feet 7 3/4 inches (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George Economou, © Peter Doig / 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/02/peter-doig-two-trees-2.jpg)

Peter Doig, “Two Trees” (2017), oil on linen, 94 1/2 inches × 11 feet 7 3/4 inches (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George Economou, © Peter Doig / 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

[**The Metropolitan Museum of Art**](https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2019/peter-doig-two-trees?ref=hyperallergic.com) has acquired **Peter Doig**’s landscape painting “Two Trees” (2017). The painting was a gift from **George Economou** in celebration of the Met’s 150th anniversary next year. “Peter Doig is one of the most important figurative painters of our time,” said **Sheena Wagstaff**, the **Leonard A. Lauder** Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art. “‘Two Trees’ is a masterpiece, as well as a watershed work in the artist’s oeuvre. It poses provocative questions about modern life, even as it sits within a lineage of peers such as Goya or Munch, who also touched on the rawness of contemporary life with distinctive painterly invention and strange beauty.”

![Kehinde Wiley, “Charles I” (2018), oil on linen, 96 x 72 inches (image courtesy Saint Louis Museum of Art)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/02/charles-i-by-kehinde-wiley-1460.jpg)

Kehinde Wiley, “Charles I” (2018), oil on linen, 96 x 72 inches (image courtesy Saint Louis Museum of Art)

[**The Saint Louis Museum of Art**](https://www.slam.org/press/press-release-saint-louis-art-museum-acquires-charles-i-by-kehinde-wiley/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has purchased **Kehinde Wiley**’s large-scale painting “**Charles I**,” based on a 1633 portrait of the English king by **Daniel Martensz**. In Wiley’s painting, the subject depicted has been changed from male to female, featuring **Ashley Cooper**, a St. Louisan standing in the same pose as Charles I in the original Dutch painting. Wiley’s work was on display in the exhibition *Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis*. Although the painting is not currently on view, it will be installed in the contemporary galleries this summer.

![<em>Electra</em> (1988), venue: Barbican Centre, London, director: Deborah Warner, playwright: Sophocles (© Ivan Kyncl, image courtesy the V&A, London)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/02/ivan-kyncl-1460.jpg)

Electra (1988), venue: Barbican Centre, London, director: Deborah Warner, playwright: Sophocles (© Ivan Kyncl, image courtesy the V&A, London)

**The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)** has acquired the theatre photography archive of **Ivan Kyncl**, given to the museum by Kyncl’s family. The Ivan Kyncl Theatrical Archive includes 100,000 negatives and several prints, and a selection of works are now on display in the new exhibition *Ivan Kyncl: In the Minute*. \[via email announcement\]

![Massive sculpture from outer space — Aesthetic campo del cielo iron meteorite, iron, coarse octahedrite – IAB-MG (14 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 9 2/3 inches (image courtesy Christie's)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/02/meteorite-1460.jpg)

Massive sculpture from outer space — Aesthetic campo del cielo iron meteorite, iron, coarse octahedrite – IAB-MG (14 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 9 2/3 inches (image courtesy Christie’s)

[**Christie’s**](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/deep-impact-martian-lunar-other-rare-meteorites/lots/1623?lang=en-us&ref=hyperallergic.com) Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar and other Rare Meteorites online sale brought in a total of $801,125 from February 6–14\. The sale’s top lot, [a massive sculpture from outer space of an aesthetic campo del cielo iron meteorite](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/deep-impact-martian-lunar-other-rare-meteorites/massive-sculpture-outer-space-aesthetic-campo-del-cielo-iron-meteorite-10/66946?ref=hyperallergic.com), sold for $275,000.

[**Christie’s**](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/art-china-including-private-english-collections/lots/1512?lang=en-us&ref=hyperallergic.com) The Art of China: Including Private English Collections online sale brought in a total of £331,000 (\~$432,000) from February 14–21\. The sale’s top lots include [a bronze censer and cover (Ming Dynasty, 17th century)](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/art-china-including-private-english-collections/bronze-censer-cover-22/66800?ref=hyperallergic.com), [a set of four small lac-burgaute “narrative” dishes (Kangxi Period, 1622–1722)](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/art-china-including-private-english-collections/set-four-small-lac-burgaute-narrative-dishes-88/66866?ref=hyperallergic.com), [a group of seven “robin’s egg” blue-glazed vessels (19th–20th century)](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/art-china-including-private-english-collections/group-seven-robins-egg-blue-glazed-vessels-141/66919?ref=hyperallergic.com), and [a carved Longquan celadon vase (Ming Dynastu, 15th–16th century)](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/art-china-including-private-english-collections/carved-longquan-celadon-vase-142/66921?ref=hyperallergic.com), which sold for £12,500 (\~$16,000) each.

[**Christie’s**](https://www.christies.com/bibliotheque-marc-litzler-28241.aspx?lid=1&dt=210220191106&saletitle=&ref=hyperallergic.com) Bibliothèque **Marc Litzler** sale in Paris brought in a total of €4,401,375 (\~$4,989,000) on February 20\. The sale’s top lot, **Mattisse**’s “[Paris, Tériade, 1947](https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/matisse-jazz-paris-teriade-1947-in-folio-6190027-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intObjectID=6190027&sid=96fe2508-1f5c-48f8-a800-0326cb500b32&ref=hyperallergic.com)” sold for €298,000 (\~$338,000).