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Can you point out some similarities?

I'm looking at the paintings of Peter Doig but I have a hard time finding something that looks like the painting of Peter Edward Doige. The strokes, technique, use of color. They are all different.

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I have two books about Peter Doig and liked his pictures for quite some time, and I was also stunned seeing the picture in question attributed to him.

Are there any other pictures of that other artist? Maybe I'm missing something. The closest resemblance seems to be the name.

Well this picture is proposed be from when he was a teenager, before he ever went to art school and long before he became a professional artist. It's not unreasonable to assume that his art style and technique can have changed significantly since then.

Ok, I see. That makes the attribution totally bogus of course, because it could be attributable to just anyone then. Like taking the paintings of a 5 year old and saying it's a very early Renoir or something.

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