Jack Vettriano : Studio Life (Signed 1st Edition)

Jack Vettriano

ISBN 10: 1862057435 / ISBN 13: 9781862057432

Published by Pavillion, 2008

About this Item

Black boards with titles to the spine. Clean pages. Firm binding. Signed by Jack Vettriano to the front end paper. 1st print. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # b18271

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jack Vettriano : Studio Life (Signed 1st ...

Publisher: Pavillion

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed By Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Jack is one of the UK's most popular, and yet most controversial, contemporary artists.

His pictures sell for a record amount of money, the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening and 'The Singing Butler' made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. (And surely the same painting is one of the world's most replicated fine art images?)

Here, for the first time, we get up close and personal with Jack in the studio. We see how he works in his studios in Scotland, London and Nice and we see how these locations influence his paintings. The book also includes brand new paintings never before seen. We analyse Jack's own cultural influences and the influences his work has come to have on popular culture in turn.

With outstanding and revealing photography by Jillian Edelstein and a foreword from friend and fellow son of Fife, author Ian Rankin, this is a book to delight Jack Vettriano's fans.

About the Author:

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 £750,000. 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.