This picture of Abraham Lincoln is being sold, right now, on eBay - it's not overly expensive either.
JACK VETTRIANO- 'THE WHITE BASQUE'- 1994, OIL on CANVAS
Stunning, sexy, and utterly classic - early mature-period Jack Vettriano from 1994.
Jack's evocative style at its best.... the cinematic narrative...the
eternal sexual tension between men and women.
Although he is a controversial figure, Vettriano is still favoured by the establishment - his portrait of Zara Phillips, daughter of HRH The Princess Royal, was commissioned for a charity auction in aid of Sport Relief.
Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint.
In 1989, he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. The following year, an equally enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings, which he entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London's Royal Academy and his new life as an artist began from that point on.
Over the last twenty years, interest in Vettriano's work has grown consistently. There have been sell-out solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and New York.
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This coach has quite the history. It was originally constructed in 1995 for my wife and me; we intended to use it to go live in Alaska for a while. Well, this did not happen, and one day a good friend suggested that if I was not going to go to Alaska right away, why not use the bus to help Congressman Bill Zeliff campaign for New Hampshire Governor? So I did, and we spent the summer of 1995 driving around New Hampshire, doing parades and other events. Bill lost, but the bus was well received, so I decided to help with Phil Gramm's 1996 run for President.What an amazing opportunity to own a well documented piece of presidential and electoral history - it could be used as a miniature tourist attraction in its own right.
The bus has been in politics ever since. Governor Bush used the bus as his campaign headquarters from July 1999 through the New Hampshire primary. Throughout this time, George Bush, Sr, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, Jeb Bush, George P. Bush, and other members of the Bush family all rode on the bus. Many others rode on the bus, too: Elizabeth Dole, Judd Gregg, Jack Kemp, and Congressman Charles Bass. After the primary the bus supported the campaigning efforts of various Federal and state candidates, taking them throughout the state of New Hampshire in their bid for elected office. The last political event of the 2000 election the bus attended was President Bush's inaugural parade, and the presidential bus was born.
After the 2000 election the bus rested snuggly in its climate controlled garage until the start of the 2002 political season. Every candidate supported in 2002 won political office: Senator John Sununu, Representative Charles Bass, Representative Jeb Bradley, and Governor Craig Benson.
In 2004 the bus again campaigned for President Bush, and in 2006 it also campaigned throughout New Hampshire. Many well-known politicians, including Senator John McCain, campaign on the bus during this time.
Rudy Giuliani used the bus in 2007 and 2008 as his New Hampshire mobile campaign headquarters.
Throughout all of this the bus has been meticulously maintained. All the maintenance was done in house by me or under my immediate supervision. I just recently retired and sold my trucking business, so now its time to sell this great bus.
The paint is applied directly to my breasts, which are then pressed onto the canvas. This process is repeated several times, using different color combinations, until I like the final composition. This series is intended to be intimate, whimsical, and fun (and an interesting conversation piece). This is a 100% original creation that was painted entirely with my (real) breasts.
