Turner-prize nominated artist Peter Doig (b.1959, Edinburgh) is celebrated for his majestic, cinematic paintings of ethereal landscapes. Jetty (1996) is an intricate pencil on paper drawing depicting a solitary figure standing on a jetty, dwarfed by an expansive body of water and imposing nearby mountainscape. A pastel-on-paper version of this work resides in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Writing on this series in the artist’s 2011 monograph, Richard Shiff noted how ‘Doig paints the beginnings of dreams. Jetty is a beginning, a possibility, a condition, a situation without a plot.’