Jack Vettriano // Autumn Release - A New Collection of Limited Edition Prints
Enid Hutt Gallery are pleased to present a stunning new release of highly anticipated editions. The latest collection from leading Scottish figurative artist Jack Vettriano featuring, Bluebird at Bonneville as a premuim hand finished edition along with several new and unseen images.
Bluebird at Bonneville - Jack Vettriano (Premium Signed Limited Edition)
Evening of Ritual - Jack Vettriano (Signed Limited Edition Giclee on Paper)
Mr Cool - Jack Vettriano (Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print on Paper)
About the Collection
This new collection of work features both iconic and unseen images, never before published. The latest of the series 'Evening of Ritual' which returns to his more seductive, controversial side; a stunning figurative portrayal of the ever inviting narrative of what may be happening in the moment of the painting.
Not only are Jack Vettriano original paintings highy sought after but his limited edition prints are some of the hottest secondary market sales for the past 20 years. Since 1995 an incredible 134 editions has been released as signed prints, many of which are changing hands for several thousands of pounds. In this latest edition he has re-released the stunning Bluebird at Bonneville which has been reproduced at the same size as the original and finished with the same frame Jack currently uses on his original paintings.
Outwith the premium edition we have stunning new editions on paper - Mr Cool, Night Calls and Exit Eden. These three editions which were previously available as an exclusive for Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery as part of the 'Early Years' exhibition of works from Jack Vettriano's earlier years in his career. Featured were many known paintings from his most popular period however, the main attraction of the exhibition was the vast collection of works he created in his early 20's under Jack Hoggan before changing his surname to his mothers maiden name Vettriano and moving to London in 2000. These earlier paintings were a great insight into the emerging talent Vettriano nurtured since being given his set of paints as a birthday gift.
These stunning editions are now available throughout the gallery network and are a great example of his different styles and composition throughout his paintings and are anticipated to sell out quickly.
Exit Eden - Jack Vettriano (Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print on Paper)
Night Calls - Jack Vettriano (Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print on Paper)
The Billy Boys - Jack Vettriano (Signed Limited Edition Giclee Print on Paper)
Yesterdays Dreams - Jack Vettriano (Premium Signed Limited Edition)
About Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano was born in St. Andrews in Fife and grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, about 30 minutes south of his birthplace. He was raised in poverty; he lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner's house, sharing a bed with his brother and wearing hand-me-down clothes. From the age of 10, his father sent him out delivering papers and milk, cleaning windows and picking potatoes - any job that would earn money. His father took half his earnings.
Vettriano left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. For a short time in the late 1960s, he had a summer job as a bingo caller at the Beachcomber Amusements on Leven Promenade.
Vettriano took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s, when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his 21st birthday. His earliest paintings, under his birth name "Jack Hoggan", were copies or pastiches of impressionist paintings; his first painting was a copy of Claude Monet's Poppy Fields. Much of his influence came from studying paintings at the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. In 1984, Vettriano first submitted his work to the Shell-sponsored art exhibition in the museum.
In 1987, when he was 36, Vettriano left his wife Gail, seeking to emulate Paul Gauguin. He quit his job in educational research and moved to Edinburgh where he adopted his mother's maiden name. He applied to study Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, but his portfolio was rejected.
