Jack Vettriano - A Life

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, Jack Vettriano has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Zusammenfassung Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, Jack Vettriano has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Vettriano, Vettriano Jack
• Assisted by: Anthony Quinn (Editor), Tom Rawstorne (Editor)
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2011
• EAN: 9781862059443
• ISBN: 978-1-86205-944-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 294 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Scotland, ART / European, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Painting & paintings, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting, Title;