A very rare drawing entitled ‘Beautiful Dreamer’, made £22,000 at a fund raising auction in aid of the Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Gallery in North Wales on Saturday 26th July 2008.
Speaking about the drawing, Vettriano has commented:
“I first heard of the Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Gallery when a friend and collector of my work asked me if I would contribute something to their fundraising event. I do get many requests to help many different causes but I thought the gallery looked magnificent and was sorry to hear that Wales’ oldest gallery gets overlooked for funding.
The brief was to produce something on an A6 card so I decided to try something very different for them; an intimate little drawing that I thought would work on a small scale. I rarely draw, preferring as I do to work directly onto canvas when I’ve worked out an idea for a painting.
The drawing I’ve done, Beautiful Dreamer, relates to a painting of the same title and features a woman standing in front of the window in my studio in London. I wanted to keep the drawing really simple and I hope it works – it’s the only drawing that I’ve ever put forward for public display. I hope someone likes it and that it helps to raise some decent funds at next Saturday’s event.”
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