QUINN, Anthony (author). Jack Vettriano. London Pavilion. 2006 Signed

Small 4to.; original black cloth lettered in black to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 191+1; with coloured plates throughout, to every page; a fine copy in fine, unclipped, dustwrapper (14.99).

First edition thus, reduced in dimensions from the first edition of 2004 which was issued to accompany a major exhibition and which included thirty previously unreproduced paintings. Signed in ink by the artist to the front free endpaper.

Jack Vettriano (1951-2025) was a largely self-taught Scottish artist who was catapulted to world-wide recognition and commercial success on the back of his 1992 painting The Singing Butler. His style is narrative and cinematic in quality, often with dark or unsettling undertones, and has been compared with that of Edward Hopper. Pulp fiction book covers of the 1950s were a source of inspiration for his work.