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Jack Vettriano: a life in pictures
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Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, who has constantly fallen foul of highbrow critics

Mon 3 Mar 2025 09.40 EST

The likes of Jack Nicholson, Tim Rice and Sir Terence Conran bought his work

Vettriano’s The Billy Boys on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow in 2013

With his work The Missing Man II, which sold for £112,900 at Bonhams auctioneers in Edinburgh in 2015

Vettriano at Bonhams in Edinburgh, standing beside his Winsor & Newton easel on which his early works were painted – part of a sale of his possessions which was held by the auction house in 2014

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