Summary
One third of us own copies of the picture on the right, and they alone make Scottish artist Jack Vettriano Pounds 250,000 a year.
Sotheby's is even devoting an auction to his work next week.See the full content of this document
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Painting by Numbers
But the painter is derided by the establishment as a sleazy poster artist.
Have the critics got it wrong, or have we, asks Godfrey BarkerWhat's the difference between a sex-heavy painting by Jack Vettriano and the California Gold Rush? This week, no difference at all. Sotheby's is auctioning no fewer than 40 Vettrianos on 1 September at Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire to a market in stampede for his pictures. How's that? Vettriano's biscuit-tin masterpiece The Singing Butler sold for Pounds 744,800 in April. At the Solstice Gallery, Edinburgh, in 1991, it cost Pounds 3,000. Vettrianos which never cost more than Pounds 5,000 before 1996 are now asking and getting Pounds 200,000 to Pounds 250,000. Their lucky owners are fighting each other through the door into the auctio...See the full content of this document
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