Mad Dogs av Jack Vettriano

Kunsttrykk av Jack Vettrianos «Mad Dogs» med glass og solid treramme. 58 x 48 cm utvendig rammemål.

Under halv pris pga litt «småbulker» i selve trykket, men som ikke synes når det henger på veggen.

Mad Dogs er ett av fem ikoniske bilder av Jack Vettriano, publisert i 2013 for første gang som et signert gicleetrykk i begrenset opplag for å minnes Jack Vettriano Retrospective-utstillingen på Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum i Glasgow.

JACK VETTRIANO: FØDT 17. november 1951, Fife, Skottland.

Vettriano, som er selvlært, er kjent for sine figurative, stemningsmettede malerier. Han vokste opp og arbeidet til å begynne med i de skotske kullgruvedistriktene.

Hans karrieremessige gjennombrudd kom med en åpen utstilling i Royal Scottish Academy i 1988. Etter dette har han hatt et meget stort salg på utstillinger over hele verden, selv om kunstkritikere har vært svært kritiske til bildene hans, og han bare er blitt innkjøpt til ett offentlig galleri. Bildene til Vettriano kan minne om Edward Hoppers og Norman Rockwells malerier, men temaene er ofte et møte mellom fortid og nåtid, med elementer fra samtidsromaner og film noir.

I tillegg til salg av selve maleriene har det vært et stort salg av plakater, bøker, prospektkort og musematter med motiver fra maleriene hans.

Vettriano har atelierer i London og Edinburgh, og ble tildelt OBE-ordenen i 2003.

I 2015 etablerte han forlaget Jack Vettriano Publishing Limited.

Jack Vettriano OBE (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951) is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting The Singing Butler became a best-selling image in Britain.

Jack Vettriano was born and grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty; he lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner's house, sharing a bed with his brother and wearing hand-me-down clothes. From the age of 10, his father sent him out delivering papers and milk, cleaning windows and picking potatoes – any job that would earn money. His father took half his earnings.

Vettriano left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. For a short time in the late 1960s, he had a summer job as a bingo caller at the Beachcomber Amusements on Leven Promenade.

Vettriano took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s, when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his 21st birthday.

His earliest paintings, under his birth name "Jack Hoggan", were copies or pastiches of impressionist paintings; his first painting was a copy of Claude Monet's Poppy Fields.

Much of his influence came from studying paintings at the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. In 1984, Vettriano first submitted his work to the Shell-sponsored art exhibition in the museum.

In 1987, when he was 36, Vettriano left his wife Gail, seeking to emulate Paul Gauguin. He quit his job in educational research and moved to Edinburgh where he adopted his mother's maiden name.

He applied to study Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, but his portfolio was rejected.

In 1988 Vettriano submitted two canvases for the Royal Scottish Academy annual show.Both paintings sold on the first dayand Vettriano was approached by several galleries.

Further exhibitions followed in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. In November 1999, Vettriano's work was shown for the first time in New York City, when 21 paintings were displayed at The International 20th Century Arts Fair at The Armory.

More than 40 collectors from the UK flew out for the event and 20 paintings were sold on the opening night.

In 1996 Sir Terence Conran commissioned Vettriano to create a series of paintings for his new Bluebird Gastrodome in London. The seven paintings, inspired by the life of Sir Malcolm Campbell, hung there for 10 years.

Heartbreak Publishing, Vettriano's own publishing company, produced a boxed set featuring signed, limited-edition prints of all seven paintings to mark the 75th anniversary of Campbell's final World Land Speed Record. The Bluebird paintings were auctioned by Sotheby's at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire on 30 August 2007 and made more than £1m in all: the most expensive was Bluebird at Bonneville, bought for £468,000.

His easel paintings cost between £48,000 and £195,000 new.

According to The Guardian he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties.

Vettriano's 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, has been the best-selling image in Britain.

On 21 April 2004 the original canvas of The Singing Butler sold at auction for £744,500. It had been rejected in 1992 by the Royal Academy summer exhibition.

The composition for the painting, as discovered by Scottish designer Sandy Robb, had been sourced from the Illustrator’s Figure Reference Manual.

In April 2010, seven out of ten paintings by Vettriano failed to sell at Sotheby's spring auction of Scottish pictures. Those that sold did so for half their previous prices. Art experts suggested that the monetary value of Vettriano's works needed reassessing.

Vettriano has studios in Scotland and London. He was represented by the Portland Gallery, London from 1993 to 2007, and counts Jack Nicholson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Tim Rice and Robbie Coltrane amongst his collectors.

To date, five books have been published about Vettriano, the most recent of which, Studio Life, was published in March 2008. In February 2009, Vettriano launched Heartbreak Publishing and his own London gallery, also called Heartbreak, which exclusively represents him, and also promotes younger artists.

In March 2010, Days of Wine And Roses was opened by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond at the Kirkcaldy Museum. The exhibition then transferred to Vettriano's gallery in London.

Vettriano received an Order of the British Empire (OBE) award for Services to Visual Arts during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 27 November 2003.

On 24 March 2010, Sir Jackie Stewart presented Vettriano with the Great Scot of the Year award.

The award ceremony was held at the Boisdale Club in London. The award led MSP Ted Brocklebank to file a motion in parliament calling for Vettriano's contribution to Scottish culture to be recognised.

In February 2011, it was announced that Vettriano's self-portrait The Weight would be displayed at the re-opened Scottish National Portrait Gallery from November 2011, the first time he had exhibited at a national gallery.

Deputy director Nicola Kalinsky said Vettriano was "a figure we have wanted on our wall for a while for obvious reasons".[24] First Minister, Alex Salmond said of Vettriano, "He is a wonderful artist of considerable talent and achievement and this is a magnificent tribute to the special place he holds in the hearts of people in Scotland."

In May 2011, "The Ballroom Spy" exhibition opened at Vettriano's gallery; Heartbreak a new exhibition by Vettriano in collaboration with the photographer, Jeanette Jones was also scheduled.

In July 2011, the exhibition transferred to the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, which was viewed as a controversial choice by many.

In February 2012, Vettriano's most famous painting, The Singing Butler, went on display at the Aberdeen Art Gallery as part of an exhibition entitled, From Van Gogh to Vettriano.

In September 2013, a major exhibition, Jack Vettriano: A Retrospective, opened at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It featured over 100 works and ran until 23 February 2014.

In 2015, a private collection of 12 works by Vettriano raised a total of £837,900 at an auction in Edinburgh.

In January 2012, menswear brand Stefano Ricci launched its Spring Summer 2012 collection with a campaign inspired by the work of Jack Vettriano. The SS 2012 catalogue, entitled Stefano Ricci – a tribute to Vettriano, featured images by Vettriano and photographic re-interpretations shot by Fredi Marcarini featuring clothes and accessories from the Ricci 2012 collection. A short film about the 2012 Vettriano campaign commemorated the collaboration.

In 2017, he was one of three artists commissioned to paint portraits of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly to celebrate Connolly's 75th birthday.

These were then put on display in Glasgow's People's Gallery, while the images were transferred to murals in the centre of Glasgow. Vettriano's mural is located in Dixon Street, off St Enoch Square.

It was the subject of a BBC Scotland documentary first broadcast on 14 June 2017.

In 2018, Worthing's "Room with a View" gallery showcased 30 Vettriano paintings.

Art dealer Jane Hill stated that Vettriano is "self-taught which I admire immensely. He has really pulled himself up from the depth of nowhere."