Which artist painted 'The Singing Butler' in 1992?
"as the ""new Glasgow Boys"", or ""Glasgow pups"" and include Steven Campbell (1953–2007), Peter Howson (1958–), Ken Currie (1960–) and Adrian Wisniewski (1958–). Their figurative work has a comic book like quality and puts an emphasis on social commentary. Since the 1990s, the most commercially successful artist has been Jack Vettriano, whose work usually consists of figure composition, with his most famous painting ""The Singing Butler"" (1992), often cited as the best selling print in Britain. However, he has received little acclaim from critics. Contemporary artists emerging from the Glasgow include Douglas Gordon (1966–), working in the medium of installation"
"some kind of emotional distress"", adding ""It's been four years of soul-searching – nicotine, alcohol, anti-depressants, temazepam"". He likes to gamble on horses, but only bets what he can afford to lose. He has set up the Vettriano Trust, and plans to leave his money to it to do good work. In 2012, Vettriano was convicted on alcohol and drug charges, and given an £800 fine for possession of amphetamines and an 18-month driving ban. Jack Vettriano Jack Vettriano, OBE (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, ""The Singing Butler"", became a best-selling image"
"Jack Vettriano Jack Vettriano, OBE (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, ""The Singing Butler"", became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano was born in St. Andrews in Fife and grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, about 30 minutes south of his birthplace. He was raised in poverty; he lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s cottage, sharing a bed with his brother and wearing hand-me-down clothes. From the age of 10, his father sent him out delivering papers and milk, cleaning windows and picking"
"critics, but is popular with the public. ""The Singing Butler"" has been criticised for its uneven finishing, inconsistent lighting and treatment of wind, and for the odd position of the dancers. The dancers' pose is reversed from a normal closed dance hold. Usually, with the man leading, his left hand would hold the woman's right hand, and he would place his right hand on or below the woman's left shoulder blade, while she places her left hand on his right arm, just below the shoulder. The original painting was sold at auction in August 2003 for £90,000, and then sold"
"commercially successful artist has been Jack Vettriano (born 1951), whose work usually consists of figure compositions, with his most famous painting ""The Singing Butler"" (1992), often cited as the best selling print in Britain. However, he has received little acclaim from critics. Contemporary artists emerging from Glasgow and Dundee include David Mach (born 1960), working in the medium of installation art, Richard Wright (born 1960), noted for his intricate wall paintings, James Lambie (born 1965) who specialises in colourful sculptural installations and Susan Philipsz (born 1965) who works in sound installations. A group that emerged from Glasgow in the early"
"ten years. Heartbreak Publishing, Vettriano's own publishing company, produced a boxed set featuring signed, limited-edition prints of all seven paintings to mark the 75th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Campbell's final World Land Speed Record. The Bluebird paintings were auctioned by Sotheby's at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire on 30 August 2007, and made more than £1m in all: the most expensive was ""Bluebird at Bonneville"", bought for £468,000. His easel paintings cost between £48,000 and £195,000 new. According to ""The Guardian"" he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties. Vettriano's 1992 painting, ""The Singing Butler"", has been the best-selling image"
"entitled 'Stefano Ricci - a tribute to Vettriano', featured images by Vettriano and photographic re-interpretations shot by Fredi Marcarini featuring clothes and accessories from the Ricci 2012 collection. A short film about the 2012 Vettriano campaign commemorated the collaboration. In February 2012, Vettriano's most famous painting, ""The Singing Butler"", went on display at the Aberdeen Art Gallery as part of an exhibition entitled, 'From Van Gogh to Vettriano'. In September 2013, a major exhibition, 'Jack Vettriano: A Retrospective', opened at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It featured over 100 works and ran until 23 February 2014. In 2017, he"
"in Britain. On 21 April 2004 the original canvas of ""The Singing Butler"" sold at auction for £744,500. It had been rejected in 1992 by the Royal Academy summer exhibition. Vettriano has studios in Scotland and London. He was represented by the Portland Gallery, London from 1993 to 2007, and counts Jack Nicholson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Tim Rice and Robbie Coltrane amongst his collectors. To date, five books have been published about Jack Vettriano, the most recent of which, "" Studio Life"", was published in March 2008. In February 2009, Vettriano launched Heartbreak Publishing and his own London gallery,"
"who cares, he probably makes more money than Damien Hirst anyway."" In October 2005, after the original of ""The Singing Butler"" sold for £740,000, it came to light that Vettriano had used the artists' reference manual ""The Illustrator's Figure Reference Manual"" to form his figures, using Irish actress Orla Brady for the 'lady in red.' Alongside fellow Fifer, author Ian Rankin, Vettriano put in a cameo appearance in a video with Scottish indie band Saint Jude's Infirmary made for BBC Scotland's ""The Music Show"". The video was filmed on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh and included visual references to two of"
"1995 at his studio-art gallery-farm in Oxford County, south of Woodstock, on Highway #59. Today, the Butler studio-art gallery-farm is operated by his son, David Butler. ""Newsmaker Update: Artist's career started on the farm"" by Julie Carl, ""The London Free Press"", Friday, November 13, 1992, page B-7. ""Journey to Perfection : The Agricultural Art of Ross Butler"" by Irene Crawford-Siano, Publisher: Quarry Press, Kingston, Ont., ©1998 , Ross Butler (artist) Ross Butler (1907–1995) was a farmer, photographer, songwriter, livestock judge, cattle and poultry breeder, pioneer of cattle artificial insemination, painter and sculptor of farm animals, as well as an author."
"Ross Butler (artist) Ross Butler (1907–1995) was a farmer, photographer, songwriter, livestock judge, cattle and poultry breeder, pioneer of cattle artificial insemination, painter and sculptor of farm animals, as well as an author. Butler was born in 1907 in Norwich, Ontario, Canada. He was a descendant of United Empire Loyalist Colonel John Butler. Butler began his career as an artist in earnest in the 1920s with a few commissioned portraits and paintings of animals. Notability came in 1939 when Butler was commissioned by the education and agriculture ministries to create a series of pictures of farm animals to be placed"
"Director of Sotheby’s and from 2003-2007 was Chairman of Sotheby’s Olympia. He also took on responsibility for the single-owner sales department in 2006 and became Deputy Chairman, Sotheby’s UK in 2007. As Sotheby's director of country house sales in the UK, Lord Dalmeny has been behind the rostrum and on top of the gavel for some of the most high-profile auctions in Europe, including the Duke of Devonshire's sale at Chatsworth House and the 2004 record sale at Hopetoun House of Jack Vettriano's painting ""The Singing Butler"" for £744,800. In 2013, Lord Dalmeny rode in the Queen's carriage at Royal"
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"performances after being discovered by Gerald Samson while performing in New York City. Art Fowler (actor) Art ""Dustbowl"" Fowler (1902 – April 4, 1953) was an American actor and musician known as ""The Wizard of the Ukulele"". He played tenor ukulele accompanied by a gentle croon. Among his hits are ""No Wonder She's a Blushing Bride"", ""Crazy Words, Crazy Tune"" and ""Just A Bird's Eye View of my Old Kentucky Home"". From Oklahoma, Fowler took up ukulele around 1922, playing professionally from 1925 with his first professional performance at the Metropolitan Picture House in Los Angeles. He went on to"
"Larry Butler (producer) Larry Butler (March 26, 1942 – January 20, 2012) was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include ""Kenny Rogers"" (1976), ""The Gambler"" (1978), ""Gideon"" (1980) and ""I Prefer The Moonlight"" (1987). Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers' 1993 album ""If Only My Heart Had A Voice"". He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD ""The Journey"". Butler is"
"John Butler (artist) John Davidson Butler (1890–1976), was an American artist from Seattle, Washington. He worked primarily as a painter, but later also as a printmaker and ceramicist. Butler was one of three Seattle artists who worked together under the name ""The Triad"". The others were etcher Roi Partridge and miniaturist Clare Shepard Shisler. Also in their circle were photographer Imogen Cunningham (who used Butler and the others extensively as models, and later married Partridge), and painters Mabel Lisle Ducasse and Yasushi Tanaka. As a youth, Butler studied in Seattle under Carlotta Blaurock, who had been, in turn, a student"
"in fantasy."" In 1987, Butler sold his musical gear, including ""Bebe Blue"", the Vox Teardrop electric guitar he used to record ""Christmas Wrapping"", to a Manhattan music store. Over twenty years later the store owners told him that the guitar's latest owner, a woman in Belgium, wanted to sell it to someone who could appreciate its significance. Butler hopped on a plane and repurchased it, though he could not convince himself that the guitar was in fact the one he owned before. Chris Butler (musician) Christopher ""Chris"" Butler (born May 22, 1949) is an American musician, writer and artist who"
"which premiered in New York in 2006, and in 2011 worked again with Stoller and lyricist Iris Rainer Dart on the musical ""The People in the Picture"". Artie Butler Arthur Butler (born December 2, 1942) is an American popular music arranger, songwriter, and pianist. In a long career, he has been involved in numerous hit records and other recordings, and has been awarded over 60 gold and platinum albums. Butler was born in Brooklyn, New York, and learned to play various instruments including piano, clarinet and drums as a child. He attended Erasmus Hall High School. At the age of"
"Eugenia P. Butler Eugenia Perpetua Butler (1947–2008) was an American conceptual artist. In 1993 she hosted a series of televised conversations called ""The Kitchen Table"" at the Art/LA93 art fair. She is best known for the ""Book of Lies"" project, started in 1991 and celebrated with a traveling exhibition that was installed at the 18th Street Arts Center Gallery in Santa Monica in 2007. Butler was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of art collector Eugenia Butler and attorney James G. Butler. She studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, and after graduation traveled with her infant daughter to"
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"Richard Butler (singer) Richard Lofthouse Butler (born 5 June 1956) is an English singer, songwriter and painter. Butler's music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as lead singer of the rock band the Psychedelic Furs and went on to found the alternative rock band Love Spit Love in the early 1990s, during a hiatus of the Psychedelic Furs. Butler began his solo career in 2006, while still a member of the Psychedelic Furs, releasing the album ""Richard Butler"". Richard Lofthouse Butler was born on 5 June 1956, in Kingston upon Thames, southwest"
"Mary Rodgers was the composer; Sheldon Harnick wrote the lyrics. (Playbill Vol.88 No.12). Bil Baird William Britton ""Bil"" Baird (August 15, 1904 – March 18, 1987) was an American puppeteer of the mid- and late 20th century. One of his better known creations was Charlemane the lion. He and his wife Cora Eisenberg Baird (1912–1967) produced and performed the famous puppetry sequence for ""The Lonely Goatherd"" in the film version of ""The Sound of Music"". He wrote ""The Art of the Puppet"" (1965) and also provided the puppets for ""Dark Shadows"". Baird also created the expandable nose Peter Noone wore"
"Robert Butler (artist) Robert Butler (September 25, 1943 – March 19, 2014) was an American painter best known for his portrayals of the woods and backwaters around Florida's Everglades. He was a member of the well-known African-American artist's group, The Highwaymen. Butler was born in the small timber and farming community of Baxley, Georgia, on September 25, 1943. Raised by his mother, Annie Talifer Butler, who always took time to instill the principles of faith and compassion in her family, Butler considers his upbringing as ""classically American."" In 1947, Butler moved to Okeechobee, Florida, where he later became intimately familiar"
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"than any known price for an Australian painting at the time. Bondi Beach (Whiteley) Bondi Beach—also known as Unfinished Beach Polyptych—is a 1992 painting by Australian artist Brett Whiteley. The painting is a six-panel work depicting the eponymous Bondi Beach in Sydney. The work was unfinished at the time of his death in 1992. The work appeared in an exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre in 2012: ""Brett Whiteley: On The Water"" The painting was purchased in a private sale from Whiteley's estate in 2015 by a private collector who hangs the work in his private residence. The"
"Jerry Butler Jerry Butler, Jr. (born December 8, 1939) is an American soul singer-songwriter,producer, musician, and politician. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group the Impressions, as well as a 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Since leaving The Impressions, Jerry has had over 55 ""Billboard"" Pop & R&B Chart Hits as a solo artist, including some 15 Top 40 Pop Hits in the Hot 100, and 15 R&B Top 10's. Butler is also an American politician. He serves as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, having first been elected"