JACK VETTRIANO

Jack Vettriano's images are a gateway to a timeless place where past and present intertwine. Daylight scenes of heady optimism, painted against backdrops of beaches and racetracks, are counterbalanced by more disquieting canvases of complex nighttime liaisons in bars, clubs, bedrooms, and ballrooms. Emerging from the unlikely background of the Scottish coalfields, Vettriano has become Scotland's most successful and controversial contemporary artist, bringing eroticism to fine art. Vettriano's painting The Singing Butler sold recently for $1.3 million. Appearing on posters and cards, mugs and umbrellas, prints of his work outsell van Gogh, Dalí, and Monet, and his paintings have been acquired by celebrities around the world. His world of elegantly dressed men and women are snapshots of a glamourous age of yesterday. But his images of lust and nudity, garter belts and sensuality, go behind the scenes of that romantic, stylized world of elegance to underlying desires and, sometimes, perversions. Mature Readers. Out of Print. Condition: Fine Minus. Top corner front cover bumped with creases. Crinkling to dj back cover bottom.