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Edinburgh Reporter
30-05-2025
- Automotive
- Edinburgh Reporter
Vettriano studies sold at auction
A group of six studies by the late Scottish artist Jack Vettriano fetched nearly £132,000 at auction in Edinburgh amid a peak in interest in his work following his recent unexpected death. The oil paintings were completed by Vettriano over a period of more than 20 years and included subjects ranging from a poignant self portrait to one of his iconic racing car scenes. The works, which led Bonhams' Scottish Art Sale in Edinburgh, were among the first by Vettriano to appear at auction since the artist died in March, aged 73, at his home in Nice in the south of France. The highlight was Pendine Beach (Study), painted in 1996, which made £44,800. The picture was part of a series by Vettriano featuring racing driver Malcolm Campbell in his land speed record-breaking car Bluebird. It was commissioned by the late designer and restaurateur Sir Terance Conran and hung in his Bluebird Restaurant in London, Vettriano's study for 'Self Portrait – Lost Soul', which fetched £11,500, showed the late artist dressed all in black standing with hands in his pockets under a Biblical quote reading: 'For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' Meanwhile, the artist's 'Daytona Diner', painted in 1995 as a study for his famous larger work, 'Diner', fetched £14,100, and 'A Letter of Consequence', showing a man examining a note, was sold for £19,200. Another study titled 'The White Basque' was sold for £28,200 and Vettriano's 1996 painting 'Girls will be Boys' doubled its estimate by making £14,100. Bonhams, who had worked closely with Vettriano in the past, paid tribute to the 'people's painter' and led the sale with his work. May Matthews, Managing Director of Bonhams Scotland, said: 'Jack Vettriano's death is a great loss to Scottish art. 'His paintings are distinctive and original and what's more, they are familiar to the person in the street with little or no knowledge of Scottish art. In this he is perhaps unique, and why he has been given the title of 'the people's painter'. 'We've seen a lot of interest in Vettriano's work since his death, and it was no surprise that all six studies sold well.' Vettriano was born Jack Hoggan, in 1951, and raised in Methil, Fife. He famously took up painting as a hobby after a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his 21st birthday in November 1972. By the time he came to prominence in 1988, he had adopted his mother's maiden name, Vettriano. Scotland's most commercially successful artist, his most famous painting, The Singing Butler, with figures dancing on a beach under a cloudy sky, was sold at auction in 2004 for £744,800. Like this: Like Related
New York Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
What's His Age Again? Blink-182's Mark Hoppus (Now 53) Looks Back.
In early March, Mark Hoppus, the singer and bassist for the long-running pop-punk trio Blink-182, and his wife, Skye, were special guests at a Sotheby's modern and contemporary art auction in London. The sale featured a piece from their collection, a rare Banksy titled 'Crude Oil (Vettriano),' up alongside works by Yoshitomo Nara, Gerhard Richter and Vincent van Gogh. 'It was such rarefied air that we've never been a part of before,' Hoppus recalled at his home a week later, outfitted in chunky black glasses, a Dinosaur Jr. long-sleeve T-shirt, navy blue Dickies and Gucci Mickey Mouse sneakers. The painting sold for nearly $5.5 million, part of which will go to charity. It would have been hard to predict such a highfalutin turn for Hoppus back in 1999, when Blink-182 released its magnum opus, 'Enema of the State,' which catapulted the band to MTV 'Total Request Live' stardom and sold five million copies domestically. The video for the album's first single, the jocular 'What's My Age Again?,' famously features the band members running unclothed through the streets of Los Angeles. ('Naked dudes are so ridiculous,' Hoppus said. 'It just looks comical to me.') Blink-182 followed up that LP with its first No. 1 album, 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket,' two years later. Despite Blink-182's reputation for high jinks, naughty puns and charmingly adolescent hits like 'All the Small Things,' Hoppus is remarkably thoughtful in person. Jim Adkins, whose group, Jimmy Eat World, supported Blink-182 and Green Day on a 2002 tour, said in an interview that Hoppus exhibited 'human empathy.' 'I know 'Mark from Blink-182 is emotionally mature' might seem like an oxymoron if you don't know him,' Adkins admitted, 'but I would say that.' Image Blink-182, from left: Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge in 1999. you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Dubai Eye
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Dubai Eye
Banksy artwork sells for AED 20 million at auction
Banksy's re-imagining of the 1992 painting "The Singing Butler" by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, whose death was announced last week, has sold at auction for $5.4 million (AED 20 million). The artwork was sold to a private collector at Sotherby's in London, just days after Vettriano was found dead aged 73 in France. The painting depicts Vettriano's butler serenading a dancing couple on a beach, with Banksy' addition of a sinking oil liner and two figures in hazmat suits moving a barrel of toxic waste in the background. The painting, bought by the co-founder of pop-punk band blink-182 Mark Hoppus and his wife Skye in 2011, was offered at Sotheby's London "Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction", with an estimate of $3.81 million - $6.35 million (AED 14 million - AED 23 million). "It was first exhibited in (Banksy's) landmark exhibition in Notting Hill in 2005, which really propelled him into the public sphere," Mackie Hayden-Cook, specialist, contemporary art at Sotheby's, told Reuters. Speaking before news of Vettriano's death, she linked Banksy's decision to re-imagine his work to the parallels between the two artists at the time. "Like Banksy, you have a really, really popular artist that is loved by the masses and appreciated by many. But for whatever reason, he was snubbed by the art world," Hayden-Cook said. Hoppus said part of the sale proceeds would go to medical charities and the California Fire Foundation, following the Los Angeles wildfires. He and his wife also intend to buy new art. 'Coming up in punk rock, it was always the ethos that if your band got any success, you brought your friends up with you," he told Reuters on Sunday. "So with this art sale, I hope to take some of the money and put it back into the art community with up-and-coming artists that we're inspired by and just continue that. I want to be a punk rock Medici.'
ARN News Center
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- ARN News Center
Banksy artwork sells for AED 20 million at auction
Banksy's re-imagining of the 1992 painting "The Singing Butler" by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, whose death was announced last week, has sold at auction for $5.4 million (AED 20 million). The artwork was sold to a private collector at Sotherby's in London, just days after Vettriano was found dead aged 73 in France. The painting depicts Vettriano's butler serenading a dancing couple on a beach, with Banksy' addition of a sinking oil liner and two figures in hazmat suits moving a barrel of toxic waste in the background. The painting, bought by the co-founder of pop-punk band blink-182 Mark Hoppus and his wife Skye in 2011, was offered at Sotheby's London "Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction", with an estimate of $3.81 million - $6.35 million (AED 14 million - AED 23 million). "It was first exhibited in (Banksy's) landmark exhibition in Notting Hill in 2005, which really propelled him into the public sphere," Mackie Hayden-Cook, specialist, contemporary art at Sotheby's, told Reuters. Speaking before news of Vettriano's death, she linked Banksy's decision to re-imagine his work to the parallels between the two artists at the time. "Like Banksy, you have a really, really popular artist that is loved by the masses and appreciated by many. But for whatever reason, he was snubbed by the art world," Hayden-Cook said. Hoppus said part of the sale proceeds would go to medical charities and the California Fire Foundation, following the Los Angeles wildfires. He and his wife also intend to buy new art. 'Coming up in punk rock, it was always the ethos that if your band got any success, you brought your friends up with you," he told Reuters on Sunday. "So with this art sale, I hope to take some of the money and put it back into the art community with up-and-coming artists that we're inspired by and just continue that. I want to be a punk rock Medici.'
The Guardian
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Jack Vettriano's ‘cheeseburger' art and the matter of taste
Eddy Frankel's article on Jack Vettriano ('His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper', 3 March) is full of the sort of backhanded compliments, grudging recognition and snobbish disdain that followed the Scottish painter throughout his career. For many art critics, Vettriano committed the ultimate sin of being popular with the sort of people who don't usually 'get' art. Or, as Frankel puts it, the sort of people who enjoy the occasional McDonald's cheeseburger. I've always been wary of the notion that art is better if you have to perform mental acrobatics in order to 'get' it. I have been shown 'good' modern art many times, and have been told why it is good – but I would not necessarily want it hanging in my home. Vettriano's best paintings, on the other hand, elicit feelings in people that many apparently 'good' modern artworks are simply unable to provoke. Regardless of the 'conceptual edge' that Frankel finds lacking in The Singing Butler, few people would deny that it is a beautiful painting. And would you rather hang a beautiful painting on your wall, or a painting whose 'conceptual edge' means absolutely nothing to anybody except the artist and a handful of critics? I imagine people will still appreciate Vettriano's paintings in 50 years' time – long after all memory of the 'conceptually edgy' modern art that the critics would prefer we liked has faded. With the poised beauty of his paintings, Vettriano democratised art, taking it out away from the critics and placing it into the hands of everyday people. It is a sin for which many in the art world still cannot forgive him. But then maybe I just don't 'get it' like the critics McQueenBrussels, Belgium It is 2025, yet the Guardian's main comment on the death of Jack Vettriano appears to be that his work is 'sexy'. Are we really still only appraising art through the male heterosexual gaze? Eddy Frankel concedes that Vettriano's work is 'pretty sexist', a dismissive understatement if ever there was one. Vettriano's work is retrograde and objectified women (women of a very narrow age bracket) in a way that is no longer acceptable. It is no defence to claim that something is 'popular'; Donald Trump can be said to be 'popular'. The distasteful aesthetic of Vettriano's work, its ability to give you a sense of unease, which Frankel does manage to allude to by describing it as 'a double cheeseburger wrapped in greasy paper', is embedded in the obvious untruths his images peddle; the scenarios in the paintings masquerade as sexy and romantic while serving up a polished turd of thinly veiled misogyny. Tamar Payne MA painting student, Royal College of Art I am perhaps one of the great unwashed. I always liked Jack Vettriano's paintings and I have a room of his prints. I also have prints of Van Gogh's and of Munch's pictures, and a few originals I could afford by 'undiscovered' artists. What the art world seems to forget is that it is possible to like all these at the same time. In the same way, I like Schubert and I like Boney M, albeit one is better for dancing Heydon-DumbletonPathhead, Midlothian Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
