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Jack Vettriano OBE Hon LLD(British, 1951-2025)Pendine Beach (Study)
21 May 2025, 12:00 BST
EdinburghSold for £44,800 inc. premium
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Jack Vettriano OBE Hon LLD (British, 1951-2025)
Pendine Beach (Study)
signed 'Vettriano' (lower right)
oil on canvas board
28 x 43.2cm (11 x 17in).
Painted in 1996
signed 'Vettriano' (lower right)
oil on canvas board
28 x 43.2cm (11 x 17in).
Painted in 1996
Footnotes
Provenance
With Portland Gallery, London.
Sir Terence Conran (acquired from the above in 1996 and hung in the Bluebird Restaurant); thence by descent.
In 2015, Sir Terence Conran told Bonhams how the Bluebird Series commission came into being;
'I met Jack just after I had purchased the Bluebird Garage in the King's Road for my restaurant company, Conran Restaurants. We had decided to make part of the space into a Club in honour of Malcolm Campbell, the racing driver who broke the land speed record in his car Bluebird. We learnt that the garage was called Bluebird because he assembled his cars there.
Luckily one of the Directors of the Club was a Malcolm Campbell devotee and had a huge collection of photos and artefacts relating to Campbell's achievements which were inspirational in the design of the Club. But what about pictures for the Club? I had just seen an exhibition of Vettriano's work at his gallery in London and I thought his James Bond-ish glamour and eroticism was a perfect match to Malcolm Campbell's lifestyle. So when I approached Jack he immediately saw the opportunity and produced six paintings that were exactly what I had hoped for – he did a vast amount of research to get the details correct. The Campbell family liked his pictures and so did the public. He was even generous enough to give me a picture he had painted of the Bluebird car, which I treasure.
...I hope his auction in Edinburgh is a great success and the Scottish art world give his work the praise it deserves – he certainly is a talented Scotsman.' (Sir Terence Conran, Introduction for Twelve Paintings by Jack Vettriano O.B.E., Bonhams, Edinburgh, 2015).