An art exhibition of Jack Vettriano’s work, to be held at the Old Fire Station Gallery between January 6th and January 30th 2023, Jack’s Gallery’s most important show in the last 10 years.

They are showing a wide selection of his signed Limited Edition prints and Proofs, both framed and mounted, from the last 20 years. In addition, there will be a selection of open prints from £39 to  £500.

An important feature of the show is “Bluebird” – the iconic picture of the 1935 land speed record attempt at Utah Salt Flats. It is featured in various presentations of Signed Editions, Artist Proof, Canvas and open prints, mounted and framed.

The original painting sold recently for around half a million pounds. Over 60 pieces will be on display.

A selection of wall art, glass and ceramics from the foothills of the Pyrenees will also have its place and be priced to sell.

Vettriano’s paintings are reminiscent of film noir and often feature romantic or erotic themes. In 2004 his best-known painting “The Singing Butler” sold at auction for just under £750,000. In the same year he was awarded the OBE and was the subject of a television documentary, Jack Vettriano: The People’s Painter, on ITV’s South Bank Show. His painting of “Bluebird at Bonneville” sold in 2021 for £468,000. Another of his best-know images, “Dance Me to the End of Love” sold for £192,000.

He was made a Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews in 2003 and the following year he set up a scholarship at the university, which is awarded every four years. He has donated several works of art to be sold in aid of charities and has set up the Vettriano Trust to help struggling artists achieve their potential. A major retrospective of Vettriano’s work was held at the Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow, in 2013. Earlier this year, 2022, an exhibition showing work from his early years was held in his home town at Kirkcaldy Galleries

Jack Vettriano was born Jack Hoggan in Fife, Scotland in 1951. He grew up in extreme poverty, living in a miner’s cottage and sharing a bed with his brother. He left school at sixteen to become an apprentice mining engineer. On his twenty-first birthday he was given a set of watercolour paints and from then on he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. His first painting was a copy of Monet’s Poppy Fields. His breakthrough came in 1989 when two of his paintings were exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual show and sold on the first day. The following year three of his paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London to an equally rapturous reception. By then he had given up his job in order to paint full time and demand for his work has since grown rapidly, with sell-out exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and New York.

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