Book Review for Jack Vettriano: A Life & The Singing Butler

Jack Vettriano is an artist who attracts great respect from the art public within the UK and USA and his oil painting The Singing Butler is without doubt the best known of his works so far, in a career which has plenty more potential classics to come. Jack Vettriano: A Life & The Singing Butler is perhaps the best book around for those looking to discover about this great artist and see the paintings which he has produced up to now. It has been out for several years but remains unmatched in it's quality of reproduction and the detail in offers on the Scottish painter.rnThere is a full detail on how the artist struggled in his early days after finding his passion at a relatively late age, before establishing himself as the most important Scottish contemporary artist. Several books currently exist on The Singing Butler painting including Jack Vettriano: A Life, Jack Vettriano: A Life, Lovers and Other Strangers: Paintings by Jack Vettriano and A Party Between Two Covers: Centenary Issue, Part 1 of 3. For those on tight budgets, this book is available at very cheap prices on book retail websites such as Amazon from people who have perhaps received it as a gift, and were not Vettriano fans themselves. A new copy is always preferable, and well worth the extra because of the quality with which the original works have been faithfully reproduced. Beyond The Singing Butler, many other paintings are covered in detail in this book including And So to Bed, Bad Boy, Her Secret Life, Just Another Day, Blades, The Temptress, On Parade, Beautiful Dreamer, Queen of Diamonds II, Dance Me to the End of Love, The Billy Boys, The Missing Man II, In Thoughts of You, The Picnic Party II, Mad Dogs, Elegy for a Dead Admiral, Contemplation of Betrayal, Dancer in Emerald, Summer Days, Waltzers, Exit Eden, Good Girl, Suddenly One Summer, A Voyage Of Discovery, Along Came a Spider and finally Dance Me To The End Of Love. Topics examined in the biographical life of Vettriano include his upbringing, the early days of his student life, the initial attempts he made to study art from previous masters and then the rise and rise of his career as his paintings grew in popularity. To conclude we can recommend Jack Vettriano: A Life & The Singing Butler as an excellent starting point for those looking to discover more about one of the most important British contemporary artists and someone whose The Singing Butler painting has gone onto become one of the most reproduced paintings in the world.