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. Here, for the first time, we...more
Jack Vettriano emerged from the coal fields of Scotland, unknown and untutored, to become Scotland’s most successful contemporary artist. Prints of his work outsell those of Van Gogh, Dali, and Monet, and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. This gorgeous monograph presents more than 30 new...more
Evoking the worlds of Raymond Chandler and Hollywood film noir, the neo-realist paintings of Jack Vettriano are published here in a handsome monograph. Illustrated with 100 of his paintings, the book is accompanied by an elegant biographical portrait of the artist’s life and achievements....more
Jack Vettriano's images are neo-realist—real in the sense that he portrays recognizeable people in believeable situations, yet heightened to that level of dramatic or romantic intensity which fuelled the fiction of the Hollywood dream factory. Alongside 44 Vettriano paintings are stories, poems, dialogue from plays, and other fine examples of...more