- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Pavilion Books; illustrated edition edition (22 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1862054207
- ISBN-13: 978-1862054202
- Product Dimensions: 29 x 23 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 196,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jack Vettriano emerged from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields - unknown and untutored - and has seen his canvases hung in the Royal Scottish Academy. His first exhibition sold out, as did the second and he has since become Scotland's most successful contemporary artist.
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NIGHT-TIME. A young woman sits at a bar, her face in pensive profile, a cigarette drooping disconsolately from her hand. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
NIGHT-TIME. A young woman sits at a bar, her face in pensive profile, a cigarette drooping disconsolately from her hand. Read the first page
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A quality hardback with first-rate Vettriano background and excellent print reproductions. As an intro to his classy 30's-style, cigarette card reproductions this couldn't be bettered. The prints show the full humour and sensuality of his art, and the whole book makes a classy gift for the art lover.....and even those who aren't!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would have liked to give this beautiful book 5 stars as the quality of the art was exactly as I would have expected of Jack Vettriano, it looses a star because of the layout of the gallery section of the book where a number of the paintings are layed out across the centre crease. I would rather have a smaller reproduction on one side of paper than a larger reproduction part of whose detail is lost in the book's crease.
But don't let my critism put you off this book, there are a lot of painting reproduced on a single side and therefore have not spoilt by the book's formatting.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If anyone out there once had the oppertunity to purchase one of this man's paintings, but passed on it because you couldn't afford it and eat at the same time, this book is a real treat. Jack Vettrano's paintings are possibly some of the best art work to come out of the 20th Century, and, as the introductions states, now outsell any other poster images available. Quite right too. Each painting is a captured moment in time. The back story is yours to define and the moments after are too. What he manages to capture is that amazing turning point in a story, where, for a moment, you can't imagine what's going to happen.
As you can now find his pictures on everything from calenders and biscuit tins to mouse mats and coasters, this book is a wonderful insight into the man and his painings, reprducing far more than you will ever find in the art cards section in Smiths. From his beautiful beach settings, to the more erotic, sometimes disturbing nightlife scenes, you are taken to a place that could have existed if George Orwell and Edward Hopper ever went into business together. (Surreal I know, but...)
A note to the publishers however: Please don't print across two pages, we want to see the whole picture without breaking the book's spine!
Other than that, this is a wonderful book. If only I had the money to buy that painting all that time ago...
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Great artist! Great book! Why won't this man show in the USA
This is a great book and I am in love with this artwork! I live in Washington, DC and there's a a great art gallery here called FRASER Gallery, owned by a British expat - they show... Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2001
You bought the birthday card, now get the book!
For the (many thousands) of people who will recognise Vettriano's work from the very successful cards and prints of his paintings, this collection offers a mixture of the familiar... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2000
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