A painting by popular artist Jack Vettriano fetched almost £500,000 at auction last night.
Bluebird at Bonneville was the top lot at Sothebys sale of Scottish and sporting pictures at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire.
The painting was one of seven commissioned by top London restaurateur and designer Sir Terence Conran for his Bluebird Club in Chelsea in 1997 up for auction.
They are inspired by the celebrated Bluebird cars driven by renowned racing motorist Sir Malcolm Campbell when he set nine land speed records during the 1920s and 30s.
Bluebird at Bonneville was sold for £468,000, Sotheby's said.
The auction house said a total of eight works by Vettriano sold last night fetched just over £1m. Among them was Dance Me to the End of Love, a nostalgic, romantic scene showing two dancers on a misty beach.
One of the artist's best known images, the work outstripped its top estimate by a wide margin selling for £192,000 to an anonymous buyer.
Popular with the public, but scorned by the art establishment, Vettriano, a Fife miner's son is one of the UK's most commercially successful artists.
Jack Nicholson, Madonna and Sir Alex Ferguson are said to be among his fans. The self-taught painter made history in 2004 when his most iconic image The Singing Butler was sold for £744,500 - the highest price ever paid for a Scottish painting at auction.
The picture, along with Mad Dogs by Vettriano, are the two best-selling posters in Britain, according to Sotheby's.
Last night's sale makes Bluebird at Bonneville Vettriano's second-most expensive work.
It depicts the car in which Sir Malcolm achieved his ninth and final land speed record of 301mph in 1935.
Sotheby's said last night's sale of Scottish and Sporting pictures raised a total of almost £5.3m - the second-highest total for any sale ever held in Scotland.
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