Jack Vettriano Limited Edition Prints

Jack Vettriano’s Pincer Movement painting is to go on sale by auction at Sotheby’s on 30th September. Pincer Movement has been  available as a limited edition giclee print  , published in April 2006 . Other paintings in the sale include Seated Nude (Study) , Study for Lady Stripper , After the Thrill is Gone (Study) , a letter of consequence II , Study for Lady Stripper , Twilight Zone and Self Portrait after Swannell

Jack Vettriano is currently doing a tour to promote his latest set of limited edition prints . To mark the end of a touring series of events and exhibitions in association with Heartbreak Publishing, Malmaison Aberdeen will be hosting a special Vettriano Dinner on Friday 14th August 2009.

The full details of the dinner, which will be attended by Jack Vettriano and special guests, are as follows:

Date: Friday 14th August 2009

Malmaison Aberdeen
49-53 Queens Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4YP

Tel: 01224 327 370

Price: £65 per person to include four courses, a glass of champagne on arrival and 1/2 bottle of wine per head.

Bookings: To book a table, please contact Andy Roger at Malmasion Aberdeen

In 2004 Jack Vettriano published his best set of  silkscreen prints ever . The prints included classics like Along Came a Spider , Game of Life and Table for One . The complete set of 8 silkscreens is now for sale . Each print is signed in pencil and numbered by Vettriano . 95 Published August 2004 PAPER 400gsm Velin Arches Blanc

IMAGE SIZE 16 by 20 inches PAPER SIZE 26 by 22 inches PRICE £1250 INCLUDES VAT
Delivery 7 to 10 days . Order by phone for free UK delivery 01324 883305

Whilst still finding inspiration from the activities in the local parks during both the winter and summer months, Andrew Macara is always excited by the special light experienced on his travels to foreign countries. Observing children at play on recent trips to Thailand, Spain, and France inevitably creates new images to be captured on canvas. The artist considers himself mainly self-taught, apart from a brief spell studying with Leonard Fuller at the St. Ives School of Painting

Giclee prints sale

BOB DYLAN has revealed a new string to his artistic bow. He has opened his first exhibition of paintings and drawings.

His song When I Paint My Masterpiece perhaps unfairly increases expectations. Dylan sketches what he sees and so there are rather a lot of hotel bedrooms from what he calls his “never-ending tour” of rock concerts, as well as views from bridges and railway lines and glances of half-seen passers-by.

One of the highlights is a painting of a curvaceous woman viewed by Dylan from behind while he was drinking in the Red Lion pub in Blackpool in 1992.

The exhibition, entitled The Drawn Blank Series, features 170 watercolours and pastel drawings and will run until February at a museum in Chemnitz, in eastern Germany.

Kirkcaldy was the birthplace of economist Adam Smith in 1723 and, five years later, of architect Robert Adam.Kirkcaldy became an industrial centre in the 19th century and was the first town to use the power loom, which revolutionised the weaving industry. Later, Kirkcaldy became the world’s linoleum capital.

Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery, War Memorial Gardens, Kirkcaldy
A stunning collection of work by a number of well-known artists, ranging from the Scottish Colourists to Jack Vettriano is on show in four permanent galleries.

Paintings signed under Vettriano’s real name Jack Hoggan, are expected to make more than £10,000 when they are sold at Shapes’ auction house in Edinburgh
Shapes said: “Both of the paintings were created around 25 years ago, when few people knew who Vettriano was. They show how he was beginning to develop his unique style.”

Next month,  12,000 people will be turning up at the Edinburgh Art Fair and, while some of them will just be looking for something pretty , others will be looking to make an investment.“As an investment, the value of art can go up spectacularly,” says Edinburgh arts impresario Richard Demarco. “If it’s good art, you can be sure its value will go up and be unstoppable over a period of about ten to 20 years. The lucky few might find tomorrow’s Jack Vettriano in amongst the art on display.

While Vettriano’s painting The Singing Butler set a record for a Scottish artist in 2004 when it sold for £744,800, Demarco advises those serious about an art investment to avoid anything too easy on the eye.
A collector bought an abstract painting called Yellow and Red Circles by Patrick Heron in 1966 for £450 and later sold it for £8000. It  sold again at auction for £37,000.

“I have, in my life, never followed the rule that because I have a particular liking for something, that means it’s good,” says Richard. “You’ve got to think, maybe it’s a fault in me that I like that, or maybe I’m liking it for the wrong reasons because I just don’t know enough.

Lord Beaverbrook’s grandsons and the good folk of the Canadian city of Fredericton, New Brunswick are in dispute over his paintings . The dispute over the ownership of paintings worth about £50m is detailed in a book, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, by journalist Jacques Poitras. It’s a riveting, and somewhat sad, tale of a community’s evolution from deference to defiance as it attempts to hold on to the old rogue’s magnificent legacy. “His actions left this terrible mess… that has ended up destroying the relationship between his family and the gallery,” says Poitras.

Art and architecture have figured prominently in Palma since the Modernists at the turn of the last century, and a fine collection of Modern and Postmodern works is on view at Es Baluard , an angular white concrete building adjoining the medieval wall at Plaça Porta Santa Catalina. One section contains Picasso’s ceramics; another celebrates Joan Miró and his followers. The museum  is open 10am-8pm daily in winter. Miró spent his later years on the island, and there’s a permanent collection of his paintings and collages at the Joan Miró Foundation Building  to the west of the city, at Carrer Joan de Saridakis , where you can also visit the artist’s chaotic workshop