Vettriano Sketch Auctioned in Scotland
Published August 27th, 2008
A sketch of Jack Vettriano’s The Singing Butler has fetched £39,650 at auction.
It was auctioned at Sotheby’s Scottish pictures sale at Gleneagles Hotel on Tuesday.
The Vettriano sketch was one of about 260 pictures for auction and sold for almost double the high estimate.
Proceeds from the sale of the picture will go to the St Andrews Students Charities Campaign, which supports local, national and international charitable causes.
The work was bought by a U.K.-based private collector, said Sotheby’s. Vettriano’s much-reproduced, full-sized canvas of “The Singing Butler,” exhibited a year earlier in 1992, was sold by Sotheby’s in 2004 for 744,800 pounds with fees, a record for a painting auctioned in Scotland.
Overall, Sotheby’s auction took 4.9 million pounds against expectations of about 6 million pounds, as 54 percent of the lots sold, said the auction house.
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