For someone who trained to be a mining engineer, Jack Vettriano, the Scottish painter is doing well as an artist. One of his most well-known paintings, Singing Butler, fetched $1.3 million in 2004. Twenty more of his works are being auctioned.
Works by Vettriano, Priciest Scots Artist, Go on Sale Next Week
By Linda Sandler
April 14 - Bloomberg
Twenty paintings by Jack Vettriano, whose ``Singing Butler'' sold for $1.3 million last year, go on sale next week at Hopetoun House near Edinburgh as collectors try to cash in on the popularity of Scotland's priciest artist.
Vettriano works on the block April 18 equal nearly 10 percent of the auction of 230 Scottish pictures, including two newly found works by Samuel John Peploe, one of a group of painters known as the colorists. Sotheby's Holdings Inc. expects to raise more than 3 million pounds ($5.7 million) in its biggest Scottish sale ever…more
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