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Jack Vettriano: A Life: Reduced Format

Jack Vettriano: A Life: Reduced Format

by Anthony Quinn (Author), Anthony Quinn (Author), Anthony Quinn (Author), Jack Vettriano (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, Jack Vettriano has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell van Gogh, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. Vettriano's images are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world; a timeless place where past and present intertwine. Daylight scenes of heady optimism, painted against backdrops of beaches and racetracks, are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex night-time liaisons in bars, clubs, bedrooms and ballrooms. His powerful canvases are beautifully captured in this new edition of Jack Vettriano, which includes 15 more recent images, from exhibitions between 2006 and 2010.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Pavilion
Published: 05 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0760772185
ISBN 13: 9781862057241
Book Overview: Presents about thirty images, as well as some surfaced works, and the best of the paintings published in Lovers and Other Strangers and Fallen Angels . This work is reissued in smaller user-friendly format. It contains a biographical text and older images.

Author Bio
Jack Vettriano is entirely self-taught. A Scotsman of Italian descent, he left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer working down the Fife coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. His first solo exhibition in Edinburgh was a sell-out and since then he has had solo exhibitions in London, Hong Kong and New York. Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano's work has grown consistently. Vettriano's best known painting, The Singing Butler, was sold at Sotheby's for close to GBP750,000. He was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts. In 2013, a major twenty year Retrospective exhibition of Vettriano's work was staged at Kelvingrove art Gallery and Musuem in Glasgow. He lives in Edinburgh.