The Singing Butler depicts a couple dancing on a windy beach

The Singing Butler, the most popular art print in the UK, sold for �90,000 when it was last auctioned in August.

But that record was broken when another of his paintings, Embracing, was bought for �98,000 last December.

The Singing Butler is one of 14 works by the Fife-born artist on sale at Sotheby's spring auction at Hopetoun House in West Lothian.

Distinctive paintings

Vettriano is acknowledged to be the UK's most popular artist.

His prints sell more than those by old masters such as Monet and Van Gogh, and his distinctive paintings are often reproduced on posters and postcards.

However, he has long felt snubbed by the arts establishment and Britain's leading art galleries have never displayed his work.

Kirkcaldy-born Vettriano, 52, left school at 16 to become a mining engineer in the local coalfields.

He taught himself to paint in a Fife bedsit after his girlfriend bought him a set of watercolour paints for his 21st birthday.

His work came to prominence in an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy.

But his work has divided the critics and he does not currently feature in any of Scotland's national galleries.