The Singing Butler is a 1992 oil-on-canvas painting made by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano in 1992. It sold at auction in 2004 for £744,500 which was the record at the time for any Scottish painting, and for any painting ever sold in Scotland. [1] Reproductions of The Singing Butler make it the best-selling art print in the UK. [1] Somehow The Singing Butler, a 28-inch-by-36-inch canvas painted in 1992 by Jack Vettriano, became to turn-of-this-century Great Britain something like what Grant Wood's American Gothic was to the.
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Amazon.com: The Singing Butler Jack Vettriano Umbrella Love Dancing Beach Rain, Overall Size: 19.75x15.75, Image Size: 18.5x13.5: Dancing On The Beach Painting: Posters & Prints Home & Kitchen › Wall Art › Posters & Prints $2499 $3.45 delivery January 2 - 4. Details Or fastest delivery December 29 - January 3. Details Arrives after Christmas. In 1992, Jack Hoggan, a self-taught artist and ex-mining engineer used the book's references to paint a watercolour of a dancing couple, accompanied by a butler and maid, on a wet beach. In 2004, 'The Singing Butler' fetched £745,000 or roughly, when it was auctioned off to a private collector by Sotheby's. Few would not recognise the elegant sweep of limbs and the romantic theme of lovers dancing the night away in each other's arms and this picture more than any other contemporary painting has captured the hearts and imagination of the public. Jack Vettriano contemplates his 1992 painting The Singing Butler at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, in Scotland. The Singing Butler, his most famous painting. In 1988, [2] Vettriano submitted two canvases for the Royal Scottish Academy annual show. [2] Both paintings sold on the first day [2] and Vettriano was approached by several galleries. [9] Further exhibitions followed in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and Johannesburg.
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#66101 The Singing Butler is Britain's best selling image and has found its way into the national consciousness. Vettriano's oil painting shows a glamorous couple dancing on a beach, both flanked by servants shielding them with umbrellas. One of the most famous paintings by Fife artist Jack Vettriano has gone on public display for the first time in two decades. The Singing Butler can be viewed at Aberdeen Art Gallery. It is. Jack Vettriano, OBE (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. 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. 264 11K views 5 years ago ODE TO THE SINGING BUTLER brings to life the characters of Jack Vettriano's iconic painting, "The Singing Butler." With an original award-winning score by Jake.
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The dark grey skies and the harsh coastal winds captured in 1992's The Singing Butler, which went under the hammer for close to £750,000 12 years later, are a familiar sight to those who grew. In an interview for the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine, Irish actress, Orla Brady, spoke for the first time about being Vettriano's inadvertent muse for his famous painting, The Singing Butler. It turns out that Orla Brady is the lady in red featured in the painting, not that Vettriano himself knew this at the time.
Jack Vettriano, The Singing Butler, 1992. This painting is one of Britain's most popular art prints and critics do not like it. Having grown up in poverty, Vettriano isn't about to paint the familiar scenes from his youth, but rather, he steers towards the romantic, the nostalgic. In this scene a maid and a butler help shelter their. "The Singing Butler," his 1992 painting of an elegant couple dancing on a stormy beach, sold for nearly £750,000 (about $1.3 million at today's exchange rate) two years ago, the highest price.
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