Jack Vettriano Exhibition Prints

Jack Vettriano's Singing Butler elephant

Jack Vettriano’s “The Singing Butler” appeared in Trafalgar Square , London this week for a unique personal appearance . It wasn’t a publicity stunt for Vettriano’s forthcoming exhibition in London , although if it was it gets top marks for originality . A whole herd of elephants appeared this week . The life-size model herd was the idea of the Elephant Family, a charity that helps safeguard Asian elephants . The charity asked a diverse array of talent to get invlolved in the project to produce 260 hand-painted elephant artworks that have now appeared all over London. Among the creators were artists Mark Quinn, Jack Vettriano, and Sacha Jafri; designers Julien MacDonald, Diane von Furstenberg, John Rocha, Alice Temperley, Lulu Guinness, Nina Campbell, and Nicky Haslam; and iconic photographer Peter Beard.

Jeweler Sabine Roemer had encrusted on her elephant’s forehead an enormous 700-carat emerald—ethically mined, of course, and hand-cut in Jaipur. “I decided I wanted to create the most valuable elephant on the parade. Well, it was for charity!,” Roemer said as a schoolgirl came to pat her animal’s priceless trunk.

Roemer certainly had the right attitude: her elephant and the others are to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s and sold online in July, with the aim of raising $3 million.

The market for Jack Vettriano is strangely schizophrenic at the moment . On the one hand his new exhibition in Kirkcaldy is an outstanding success. At the same time an auction of ten of his paintings was not very successful. Seven of the 10 paintings were not sold . Sotheby’s spring auction of Scottish art showed that big-money buyers are in the market . Seven classic watercolours of birds by Scots ornithologist Archibald Thorburn sold for £339,600 at a different auction last week, smashing pre-sale estimates. Auctioneers are saying there has been a reassessment of the market for Vettriano paintings. Put it another way , prices are falling. A few years ago buyers were willing to pay almost any price for his paintings . Now the heat in the market has cooled , leaving some buyers struggling to make a profit on their investment . The highest seller was Game On

Game On by Jack Vettriano

a 15in by 12in painting of a man and woman in suspenders locked in an erotic embrace. The last item in the Sotheby’s sale, it carried an estimated price of £40,000-£60,000, and sold for £49,250.
Study For Heaven Or Hell – The Sweetest Choice had an auctioneer’s estimate of between £20,000 and £30,000, it did not find a buyer.

The Longing, estimated at £20,000-£30,000, sold for £18,750. But Model Reclining, which sold for £37,250, was on Friday still listed at £87,500 on the website of the Portland Gallery, where director Tom Hewlett was until recently Vettriano’s longtime dealer. Artist And Model, valued at £50,000-£70,000, did not sell. Nor did The Out Of Towners, a romantic beach scene of a woman in a yellow dress and two men in period clothes and hats, estimated at £40,000-£60,000.

There is a special bonus for today’s visitors to Jack Vettriano’s exhibition – Vettriano will be there himself to do a book signing. Jack Vettriano is at Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery today Thursday, 22^nd April to sign copies of his books and the catalogue for the exhibition of his new work: Days of Wine and Roses which is on show at the Museum until 2^nd May. There will be two signing sessions: in the morning from 11 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. and in the afternoon from 2 p.m. until 4.30 p.m.

Vettriano’s exhibition Days of Wine and Roses has attracted over 3400 people in the first two days – breaking all records. Vettriano chose his home town of Kirkcaldy over London and Milan to open his first exhibition in four years. Dallas Mechan, service development manager for heritage and art, said: “The first weekend was amazing.
“We had just under 1700 people on Saturday, 1750 on Sunday, and about 800 on Monday. The most we have had in one day in the past was 1000.

“A lot of people are coming from all over the country, it has been fantastic.”
The exhibition boasts 35 original paintings, as well as photographs by Milanese photographer Fredi Marcarini and runs until until May 2.

Jack Vettriano ’s next exhibition, ‘Days Of Wine And Roses‘, opens at the Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery in Fife in 27th March 2010 before transferring to London and then on to Milan. Vettriano decided to premiere his exhibition at the Kirkcaldy Museum because it is in his home town where he spent many of his childhood years.Four new limited edition prints – Days of Wine and Roses and the Look of Love are also published

Days Of Wine And Roses

Saturday 27th March – Sunday 2nd May 2010

Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery
Abbotshall Road
Kirkcaldy
Fife KY1 1YG

Opening Hours:

Monday -Saturday 10:30am – 5:00pm; Sunday 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Admission: FREE

A fully illustrated catalogue will be published to accompany this exhibition. Visit the Jack Vettriano prints gallery for a full range of Vettriano prints

The Innocents and Summertime Blues are 2 Jack Vettriano prints which were published in 1994 by his first publisher Corrymiller Scott in Newcastle. These limited edition prints are very rare . We have one copy of each print in stock. Phone 07723-538941 for more details .

Jack Vettriano has just published a new Bluebird at Bonneville limited edition print . Limited Edition Giclee Print , 15 x 25 ins

Unframed: £580.00

Bluebird At Bonneville is one of three of Vettriano’s Bluebird series that have been published as large format, signed, limited edition prints. The set of three prints are available at a special price. Published in 2010
Paper: 350 gsm Museum Etching paper paper
Edition Size: 250 + 25 Artist’s Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist.Free UK delivery

Game On is one of Jack Vettriano’s most popular limited editions and it sold out quickly when it was first published in 2006 . Jack Vettriano thinks his most famous painting The Singing Butler will be part of the exhibition he is putting together to cover his entire career of 20 years . Sotheby’s auctioneers are helping him track down his best-known paintings, seeking loans from celebrity collectors and anonymous buyers.
Vettriano has, somewhat optimistically , offered what could be a sell-out show to the National Galleries of Scotland, with which he is embroiled in a long-running feud.
It was “mildly short of a disgrace” that NGS had never shown or bought his work for the national collection, he said, adding: “That may be the opportunity for the National Galleries to say, ‘Right, we’ll show this stuff and let the public make their minds up’.”
Vettriano has been on tour in the UK including an appearance at the Aberdeen Music Hall taking questions from up to 800 people. It was something he had never done before, showing the popularity of the so-called “People’s Painter”.
In 1989, the former miner with no formal art training had two paintings accepted by the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition, which rapidly sold.Vettriano has not stated whether or not Game On will be featured in the exhibition . Jack Vettriano prints

Jack Vettriano’s Pincer Movement painting is to go on sale by auction at Sotheby’s on 30th September. Pincer Movement has been available as a limited edition giclee print , published in April 2006 . Other paintings in the sale include Seated Nude (Study) , Study for Lady Stripper , After the Thrill is Gone (Study) , a letter of consequence II , Study for Lady Stripper , Twilight Zone and Self Portrait after Swannell

Jack Vettriano is currently doing a tour to promote his latest set of limited edition prints . To mark the end of a touring series of events and exhibitions in association with Heartbreak Publishing, Malmaison Aberdeen will be hosting a special Vettriano Dinner on Friday 14th August 2009.

The full details of the dinner, which will be attended by Jack Vettriano and special guests, are as follows:

Date: Friday 14th August 2009

Malmaison Aberdeen
49-53 Queens Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4YP

Tel: 01224 327 370

Price: £65 per person to include four courses, a glass of champagne on arrival and 1/2 bottle of wine per head.

Bookings: To book a table, please contact Andy Roger at Malmasion Aberdeen