Sans Titre 5 by Jack Vettriano

Displaying a provocative and highly stylized composition, this horizontally framed painting explores desire and fetishism with irresistible chic. Entitled “Sans Titre 5”, this brilliant creation signed by Jack Vettriano shows a smoking man seated before the legs of a woman lying on a table. The painter favors striking contrasts to assert the subject’s erotic charge.

On the left side of the image, the man in an impeccable black suit and red tie sits in profile, a cigarette in hand, exhaling a white smoke plume. Before him on the wooden tabletop, a woman dressed in a short black skirt and dark gartered stockings lies, raising her slender legs shod in black patent heels upward. Her elegant thigh and dark stockings occupy the framing center beneath stark lighting. In the background, a tall dark fireplace and an amber-toned wall surround the figures in a muted half-light. An ashtray rests on the table.

The virtuosity of Jack Vettriano shines in rendering patent leather heels and stocking satin. His high-rigor oil painting technique gives this intimate scene seductive power and graphic realism of a superior standing.