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Old 09-10-2008, 12:11 PM
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Have you looked at Jacks work?its amazing.This is a scotish born Italian and his work is very poster type but so interesting and his one painting "The Singing Butler: is the most popular art work in Britain.Hope you enjoy, Barbara-Louisa
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Benvenuta Barbara-Louisa! I know you will enjoy this forum. I have not heard of Jack Vettriano. I will look him up.
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Although his work is generally dismissed by art critics as being vulgar and devoid of imagination, he is one of the most commercially successful living artists. His original paintings now regularly fetch six figure prices, but he is thought to make more money from the sale of reproductions. According to The Guardian, he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties. Each year a new set of limited edition prints are published, and his most popular work, The Singing Butler, sells more posters and postcards than any other artist in the UK. On 21 April 2004 the original canvas of The Singing Butler sold at auction for £744,500 — in stark contrast to 1992 when Vettriano painted the picture and submitted it for inclusion in the Royal Academy summer show, only to be rejected.

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Thanks Paolo. I now realize that I have seen his work, just didn't remember his name.
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