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JACK VETTRIANO OCCUPIES A UNIQUE POSITION ON
THE CONTEMPORARY ART SCENE. CONSIDERED BY SOME
TO BE COURAGEOUS AND BY OTHERS OUTRAGEOUS,
HE IS SOMETHING OF A MAVERICK FIGURE WHO
OPERATES OUTSIDE THE ESTABLISHMENT, YET HIS WORK IS
COLLECTED BY MOVIE STARS AND PRICED AT SIX FIGURES.
HE FIRST CAME TO PUBLIC PROMINENCE AT THE ROYAL
SCOTTISH ACADEMY OPEN EXHIBITION IN 1989. OUT OF
NOWHERE, HE ERUPTED ONTO THE SCOTTISH ART SCENE
WITH A SERIES OF PAINTINGS, ALL OF WHICH WERE
LATER SOLD. SINCE THEN THERE HAVE BEEN SELL OUT
EXHIBITIONS IN EDINBURGH, LONDON, HONG KONG,
JOHANNESBURG AND NEW YORK.
JACK VETTRIANO OBE
BORN 1951, FIFE
B I O G R A P H Y