Bluebird, that sold on its low estimate to a UK private buyer, is the signature work from a series of works on the theme commissioned by Sir Terence Conran for the Bluebird Club on London's King Road in 1997.
A total of 13 works by Vettriano were offered of which eight sold.
Vettriano rides again
Some of the heat may have left the Jack Vettriano (b.1951) market since his Singing Butler made £660,000 in April 2004, but Sotheby’s nevertheless posted the second highest price ever paid for the artist at auction when they sold Bluebird at Bonneville for £400,000 (plus premium) – the top lot of the firm’s annual sale at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire on the evening of August 29.