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JACK VETTRIANO
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Born in Scotland in 1951, Vettriano left school at sixteen to
become a mining engineer in the local 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. The local art gallery, The Kirkcaldy Museum and Art
Gallery, with its renowned collection of 19th and 20th century
Scottish paintings, was particularly inspirational.
It was fourteen years before Vettriano felt ready to show any
of his work in public. In 1989 he offered two works to the Royal
Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition; both were accepted
and sold on the first day. The following year, an equally enthusiastic
reaction greeted the three paintings, which he entered for the
prestigious Summer Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy.
In the last nine years interest in, and desire for his work,
has grown rapidly. There have been sell-out solo exhibitions in
Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. In November 1999,
Vettriano’s work was shown for the first time in New York,
when twenty paintings were displayed at The International 20th
Century Arts Fair at The Armory. Fifty collectors from the UK
flew out for the opening night of the Fair and all twenty paintings
were sold out within an hour of the opening.
In March 2000 BBC Scotland produced a half-hour documentary about
Vettriano for their Arts Series EX-S; aired initially in Scotland
only, the documentary is likely to be aired nationally later this
year.
Aside from his exhibitions, Vettriano has acquired a vast following
of fans through the posters and prints of his paintings that are
distributed worldwide. This year the two best selling art posters
in Britain are both Vettriano images. To date, more than 500,000
posters of Vettriano’s paintings have sold worldwide.
Paintings by Jack Vettriano can be found in private, corporate
and public collections worldwide.
Silkscreen Prints
Hand-printed by Advanced Graphics London
onto the highest quality hand made paper using 35 colours, each
of the new silkscreen prints are limited to an edition of 295.
Each one has been individually signed and numbered in pencil by
the artist.
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