January 2008
Identity of 'The Singing Butler' muse revealed.
In an interview for the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine, Irish actress, Orla Brady, spoke for the first time about being Vettriano's inadvertent muse for his famous painting.
It turns out that Orla Brady is the lady in red featured in the painting, not that Vettriano himself knew this at the time. Twenty years ago, when she was a struggling actress, Brady had posed for photographs for 'The Illustrators' Figure Reference Manual'. The photographs included some of her in a long evening gown, dancing with a man and it was these photographs that first inspired Vettriano to construct the story of the couple dancing on a beach, with only their Butler's singing as music to dance to.
Twenty years on, Orla Brady is now an internationally known and successful actress and the painting, 'The Singing Butler' has gone on to become Vettriano's best-known work worldwide.
Vettriano painted a second version of 'The Singing Butler' but featuring just the dancing couple and the woman is wearing a green dress. The painting entitled 'Dancer In Emerald', has been published as a signed limited edition print and both will be on display at the Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery during Vettriano's fothcoming exhibition, which opens at the Museum on 27th March 2010.
Click HERE to read the interview with Orla Brady about being Vettriano's suprirse muse.
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Identity of 'The Singing Butler' muse revealed.
In an interview for the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine, Irish actress, Orla Brady, spoke for the first time about being Vettriano's inadvertent muse for his famous painting.
It turns out that Orla Brady is the lady in red featured in the painting, not that Vettriano himself knew this at the time. Twenty years ago, when she was a struggling actress, Brady had posed for photographs for 'The Illustrators' Figure Reference Manual'. The photographs included some of her in a long evening gown, dancing with a man and it was these photographs that first inspired Vettriano to construct the story of the couple dancing on a beach, with only their Butler's singing as music to dance to.
Twenty years on, Orla Brady is now an internationally known and successful actress and the painting, 'The Singing Butler' has gone on to become Vettriano's best-known work worldwide.
Vettriano painted a second version of 'The Singing Butler' but featuring just the dancing couple and the woman is wearing a green dress. The painting entitled 'Dancer In Emerald', has been published as a signed limited edition print and both will be on display at the Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery during Vettriano's fothcoming exhibition, which opens at the Museum on 27th March 2010.
Click HERE to read the interview with Orla Brady about being Vettriano's suprirse muse.
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