JACK VETTRIANO

TRAMA

Jack Vettriano's rise to fame has been meteoric. His painting, "The Singing Butler," recently sold for a record $1,350,000. This sumptuous monograph showcases more than 30 new pieces by the Scottish painter, some recently discovered work, plus the best of his paintings published in Lovers and Other Strangers and Fallen Angels.

NOTE LIBRAIO

Hardback with jacket, illustrated. In December 2003 the painter Jack Vettriano, a coalminer's 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 - emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, unknown and untutored, he has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell Van Gough, Dali and Monet and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. Vettriano's images have an often mysterious narrative and are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world. Daylight scenes of heady optimism, painted against backdrops of beaches and racetracks, are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex night-time liaisons in bars and clubs, bedrooms and ballrooms. Both sexes are clearly styled - the men hard-edged and mysterious, the women seductive and enigmatic. Yet beneath the confident posturing, Vettriano recognizes our inherent human frailty, that there is no victor in the struggle between duplicity and desire. Men and women are ultimately trapped by the machinations of intense love.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781862056466
• Dimensioni: 284 x 24 x 237 mm
• Illustration Notes: 100 colour illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 191