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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS: THE LIMITED EDITION
Paintings by Jack Vettriano
Price: £325
Bluebird at Bonneville (1996)
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'My work is my fantasy world. I paint the world I want to be in.'
- Jack Vettriano
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Night in the City (1998)
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Over the past decade Jack Vettriano's paintings have caught the imagination of the public like no other Scottish contemporary artist. Collectors of his works are renowned for their enthusiasm and include many celebrities, while his paintings The Singing Butler and Mad Dogs are the two best-selling posters in Britain.
This is some achievement for an artist who is entirely self-taught, having left school at 15 and worked down the mine, and sold his first painting in 1988 at the age of 36.
Since publication in June 2000, Jack Vettriano's major new book Lovers and Other Strangers has already had an overwhelming impact. To mark the event, he has agreed to allow Genesis Publications to issue a limited edition of just 250 signed copies, hand-bound in half leather, which we are pleased to make available to you now.
Lovers and Other Strangers features a Foreword by Sir Tim Rice, an Afterword by Sir Terence Conran, and an introductory essay by Anthony Quinn.
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'In the alluring and sinister world of his art the drama of men and women together is played out against a backdrop of bars and clubs, seasides and racetracks, ballrooms and bedrooms. The characters wear clothes reminiscent of forties melodramas - a dark suit and snap-brimmed hat for him, a slash of red lipstick, silk stockings and a dress à la Gloria Grahame for her. Everybody smokes, stylishly.'
- Anthony Quinn
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Bird on the Wire (1992)
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The Workstation (1998)
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'Jack Vettriano seems to understand perfectly the stylish sexiness and intrigue that you get when high life and low life collide.'
- Sir Terence Conran
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The production is superlative. Lovers and Other Strangers: The Limited Edition is hand-bound by fine craftsmen in black half leather and red Siltex cloth, with gilt page edges and the title blocked in gold foil on the spine. Housed in a quite delightful red buckram slipcase silk-screened in white and black. Each copy is personally signed by Jack Vettriano and individually numbered.
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With only 250 special copies being made available worldwide, this edition is indeed the perfect gift for a lover - or another stranger.
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160pp - Page size 290mm x 230mm - ISBN: 0 904351 80 7
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email:
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© 2008, Genesis Publications Ltd.
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