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Jack Hoggan (Vettriano) (British, 1951-2025) Lonely man in big city unframed image 1
Jack Hoggan (Vettriano) (British, 1951-2025) Lonely man in big city unframed image 2
Jack Hoggan (Vettriano) (British, 1951-2025) Lonely man in big city unframed image 3
Jack Hoggan (Vettriano) (British, 1951-2025) Lonely man in big city unframed image 4
Lot 80AR

Jack Hoggan
(Vettriano) (British, 1951-2025)
Lonely man in big city

8 October 2025, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh

Sold for £1,536 inc. premium

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Jack Hoggan (Vettriano) (British, 1951-2025)

Lonely man in big city
with a portrait of the artist's grandfather Peter Vettrino and a landscape to the reverse
oil on panel
63.5 x 37.2cm (25 x 14 5/8in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist's brother.

This was one of the first paintings the artist ever painted in oils.

The painting on the reverse includes a portrait of the artist's maternal grandfather. Peter Vettriano, an Italian immigrant, was one of the greatest influences on Jack's early life - some 30 years later Jack took his surname. Art was not a familiar concept in the family home, but Jack liked to draw and his grandfather would bring home little pads of betting slips and tiny wooden pencils from the local bookmakers. For hours, Jack would sit doodling on the pads.

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