The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo has reopened the Peter Doig exhibition, which had been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The exhibition period is expected to run through Oct. 11.
The exhibit, hosted by The Yomiuri Shimbun and others, is Doig's first solo exhibition in Japan. He is considered one of the most important contemporary artists.
The museum in Takebashi, Tokyo, has taken thorough measures to prevent infections by asking visitors to take their temperatures and to keep a safe distance.
Exhibited at the venue are about 70 works, including some of his earlier artwork to more recent ones such as "Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak)."
Visitors who had been eagerly awaiting the reopening of the exhibition, were able to appreciate his phantasmal landscape paintings on Friday.
"It's great to get out and experience art," a 50-year-old taxi driver from Nakano Ward, Tokyo, said.
Scottish-born Doig, 61, is known for his phantasmal landscape paintings that combine diverse imagery from the compositions and motifs of modern painters like Van Gogh and Munch, as well as film sceneries, landscapes where he lived and advertising graphics.
The exhibition also includes his early work, "Swamped," one of Doig's representative works that was prompted by a scene from the film "Friday the 13th." They also include some large works that are more than 3 meters wide.
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