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The painter Jack Vettriano emerged form 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. Vettriano's images are neo-realist - real in the sense that he portrays recognizable people in believable situations, yet heightened to that level of dramatic or romantic intensity which fuelled the fiction of the Hollywood dream factory or the novels of Raymond Chandler or F. Scott Fitzgerald. They are tales without text, storyboards about love and lust, possession and longing, pursuit and conquest. He seems to understand perfectly the stylish sexiness and intrigue that occurs when high life and low life collide. His men are predators, gamblers - hard-edged but possibly soft-centred, Bogartian in period and attitude. His women are vulnerable, pliable, probably playthings if the price is right. And beyond the implied narrative of his paintings there is a curious remembrance of times past and lost, of squandered youth on blissful beaches.

Critics have linked Vettriano with the bleak paintings of Hopper, the sleazy photographs of Brassai, yet he is unique, identifiable at fifty yards. Anthony Quinn has written an elegant biographical portrait of the man from childhood to present, encompassing his family, schooling and career as well as pausing at significant moments in his career.

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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 Browse Sample Pages
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   18 of 18 people found the following review helpful: First Class read, first class reproduction., 15 Aug 2000 By  bruce.longshaw@virgin.net (Cambridgeshire) - See all my reviews This review is from: Lovers and Other Strangers: Paintings by Jack Vettriano (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!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   13 of 13 people found the following review helpful: Lovers and other Strangers. Paintings by Jack Vettriano., 4 Jul 2004 By  "mjn27" - See all my reviews 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.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   24 of 25 people found the following review helpful: Powerful and Evoctive, 24 Jan 2003