Jack Vettriano: A Life-Jack Vettriano,Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn Jack Vettriano: A Life 2004 Pavilion Books\nAuthor: Anthony Quinn\nPublisher: Pavilion Books\nPublication year: 2004\nFormat: Hardcover\nGenre: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / European / History / Contemporary (1945-) / Individual Artists / Monographs / Techniques / Painting\nLanguage: English\nEdition: First Edition\nPages: 191\nISBN: 9781862056466\nSynopsis: In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer\u2019s son, met his parents off the train from Scotland on his way to collect an OBE. Over the last few years Vettriano has had a meteoric rise to fame \u2013 emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland\u2019s most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell Van Gogh, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. 'The Singing Butler', Britain's most reproduce.