In 1994, the British artist and curator Matthew Higgs asked a group of artists showing at London’s Cabinet Gallery to each produce their own top ten list on a subject of their choice, to be published as part of Higgs’s publishing project Imprint 93 (itself the subject of an upcoming retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery, opening September 2016). Here, we’ve reproduced the painter Peter Doig’s choices for the best painters of houses, from Courbet to Ruscha. For more on Doig and his work, pick up a copy of Phaidon’s monograph Peter Doig from their Contemporary Artist Series.
1. GUSTAVE COURBET
Château de Chillon
1874
2. ERIC FISCHL
Saigon, Minnesota
1985
3. LEMOINE FITZGERALD
Doc Snider's House
1937
4. EDWARD HOPPER
House by the Railroad
1925
5. MARTIN KIPPENBERGER
Three Buildings with Slits
1985
6. RENÉ MAGRITTE
The Revelation of the Present
1936
7. DAVID MILNE
Ollie Matson's House
1932
8. EDVARD MUNCH
Red Virginia Creeper
1898-1900
9. JEFFREY DENNIS
House of Light
1985
10. ED RUSCHA
F House
1987