Suddenly Last Summer

Details

Jack Vettriano (b. 1951)
Suddenly Last Summer
signed 'VETTRIANO' (lower right)
oil on panel
37 x 24 in. (94 x 61 cm.) (painting); 77 x 30 in. (195.6 x 76.2 cm.) (door panel)
Painted in 1999.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present work was originally located in Jack Vettriano’s London flat. Painted over a cupboard door the work depicts an old love of the artist’s. Jack Vettriano described, ‘To cover up the boiler cupboard I painted directly over the door. It was inspired by a love affair I had with a married woman some time ago and I called it Suddenly Last Summer.’

‘Jack Vettriano has the ability to make you feel nostalgic for things you never actually experienced in the first place. He takes you to a mood and time that you know so well although you were never there … Jack Vettriano’s paintings make you wonder what will happen next; none are static. Every picture is an episode – is a romance that is about to explode … He evokes an era of Hollywood, but no film of that town’s heyday was made with Vettriano’s burning colour; those great movies remain of their time, these paintings are of many times – the clothes and backdrops are beautiful ornaments that could pinpoint a year, but the faces are universal, of any, of every, of the past fifty years’ -Tim Rice

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