Jack Vettriano Posters Prints Paintings

Singing Butler Art Print

Dance Me to the End of Love

Mad Dogs Art Print

Billy Boys Art Print

In Thoughts of You

Waltzers Art Print

Elegy for a Dead Admiral

Picnic Party Art Print

Bluebird at Bonneville

Only the Deepest Red II

Lazy Hazy Days

Back Where You Belong

Man in the Mirror

The Last Great Romantic

Suddenly One Summer

Jack Vettriano's original name at birth was Jack Hoggan. He grew up in the blue collar seaside town of Methil, Fife Scotland and left school at the age of sixteen years. Afterward he tried a position as an apprentice mining engineer. He did not start painting at a young age as many artist do, however, the tale is that Vettriano while in his twenties, he took up painting as a pastime. An instructor friend had given him a gift of him a set of water colors which he apparently took an interest in. His earliest paintings were copies or potpourris of impressionist work - copies after such great artists as of Claude Monet. He continued practicing his art and developing his own style yet it would still be another fourteen years before Vettriano was ready to exhibit his work for the first time.

1988 Vettriano considered himself ready to display his artwork in public and so entered two paintings in the Royal Scottish Academy yearly exhibit. Both paintings where purchased on the opening day and Vettriano was approached by numerous art galleries who wished to carry and distribute more of his work. The instant success coupled with all of the attention he suddenly received added to the collapse of his first marriage, after which he relocated to Edinburgh. At this time he altered his name to the familiar Vettriano, which appends his mother's maiden surname.

Road to Nowhere

Missing Man I

Cafe Days Art Print

Midnight Blue

Sweet Bird of Youth

La Fille a la Moto

Birth of a Dream

Amateur Philosophers

Contemplation of Betrayal

Pendine Beach

Young Hearts Art Print

Oh Happy Days

A string of additional successful shows followed which were held in major cities across the globe. Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and New York City came shortly after him initially going public with his paintings. Vettriano appealed to many with his moody story telling on canvas, done often in a darker film noir style. They as well frequently carry the forbidden, romantic and nude topics.

Even though the art critic world frequently brushes aside Vettriano' as being coarse and barren of imagination, he is one of the most commercially flourishing living artists. Today, an original painting by Jack Vettriano can eaily carry six figure price tag. He also earns a substantial income from the sale of many replicas. Reported by The Guardian news Vettriano's most popular and best-selling work, titled The Singing Butler, sells more posters, prints and postcards than any other reprint of a painting in the United Kingdom. On April 24, 2004 the original canvas of The Singing Butler sold at auction for the considerable sum of 1,524,130, quite a large contrast to the year of 1992 when Vettriano had first painted the picture. He had submitted it for inclusion in the Royal Academy's summer exhibit, only to have The Singing Butler declined for the showing.

Her Secret Life II

On the Border

Exit Eden Art Print

Highlights:

In November 1999, Vettriano's art traveled to America and was exhibited for the first time in New York City. For this event, twenty paintings were put on display and seen at The International Twentieth Century Arts Fair at The Armory.

A set of paintings by Vettriano have been purchased for over £1m in August 2007, the greatest sale of this being for piece titled, Bluebird at Bonneville, which was purchased for $958,000 through a Sotheby's auction. The painting had been one of a set of works commissioned by restaurant owner Sir Terence Conran for the Bluebird Club. The Bluebird Club was to change ownership in 2007.

Vettriano has studios in both Scotland and London, and in 2003 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

A small scandal broke out in October 2005, once it was disclosed that a few of the human figures in some Vettriano's paintings, which included the famous The Singing Butler, appeared to be copies of human forms taken figures from an artists' source book titled The Illustrator's Figure Reference Manual. Even so, such an announcement did little to stain Vettriano's reputation as he has never claimed to be anything but self taught. During the early years of his career, he did not have the funds to employ models. The public remained firmly by Jack Vettriano's side, still adoring him. The public appreciates his gift of being able to place relativity few forms and little in the way of trappings or props on a canvas, and through this, be able to tell stories within stories.

Along with associate Fifer, writer Ian Rankin, Vettriano gave a cameo showing in a music video made with the Scottish independent band, Saint Jude's Infirmary, prepared for BBC Scotland's 'The Music Show'. The video was shot on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh and included visual credits to two of Vettriano's most illustrious paintings, haunting Elegy for a Dead Admiral and the celebrated piece, The Singing Butler. The lyrics of the cut Goodbye Jack Vettriano were composed by band member, Grant Campbell, when he was homesick, distant in Rotterdam and on discovering a Vettriano print on a local bar wall.

Vettriano became a fan of the band after listening to their first record album, Happy Healthy Lucky Month and was motivated by the lyrics of Goodbye Jack Vettriano to produce a painting which will boast as the cover of the band's upcoming, second CD which is anticipated to be released in early 2008. Both Vettriano and Rankin are said have contributed spoken word parts to the recording.

In 2004, Vettriano kindly established a scholarship to St Andrew's University to fund a student who would not be capable of entering school without the financial aid. A Jack Vettriano Scholar will be named every four years with the first having begun in September 2004. The gift accompanies his financial donation toward renovating the Students Association's Old Union Coffee Bar in 2002 and his interest in pupil fashion shows. He was awarded the title of Doctor of Letters by the University.

In September 2001, Vettriano donated one of his artworks titled Beautiful Dreamer to a charity auction which was held at Sotheby's to assist the organization Help the Hospices.

His most famed painting of the ballroom pair dancing on the lonely beach with the butler in nearby attendance with umbrella has been reprinted a minimum twelve million times since it was initially sold for $4,500 to a individual collector in 1991.

Along came a Spider
Altar of Memory
Amateur Philosophers
An Imperfect Past
Back Where You Belong
Bad Boy Good Girl
Beautiful Dreamer
Beautiful Losers
Billy Boys
Bird on the Wire
Birth of a Dream
Bluebird at Bonneville
Cafe Days
Cocktails and Broken Hearts
Cocktails and Broken Hearts
Contemplation of Betrayal
Dance Me to the End of Love
Date with Fate
Drifters
Duellists
Elegy for a Dead Admiral
Exit Eden
Exit Eden
Game On
Her Secret Life
His Favourite Girl
In Thoughts of You
Just Another Day
La Fille a la Moto
Lazy Hazy Days
Mad Dogs
Man in the Mirror
Missing Man I
Models in the Studio
Narcissistic Bathers
Night and the City
Night Geometry
Night Geometry
Oh Happy Days
On the Border
Only the Deepest Red
Parlour of Temptation
Pincer Movement
Private Dancer
Riviera Retro
Seaside Sharks
Singing Butler
Sombody Else's Baby
Suddenly One Summer
Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth II
Table for One
The Drifter
The Last Great Romantic
The Picnic Party I
The Road to Nowhere
The Runaways
Valentine Rose
Waltzers
Winter Light & Lavender
Words of Wisdom
Young Hearts