(19 Jun 2024)
UK ART AUCTION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
LENGTH: 4:58
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK – 19 June 2024
1. Various of "Guitare sur un tapis rouge" (1922) by Picasso
2. Various setup shots of Thomas Boyd-Bowman
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Boyd-Bowman, Head of Contemporary Modern Art Evening Sale, Sotheby’s:
"It was painted in 1922, just after the First World War. Picasso had been, up until this point, working in quite an austere, very cerebral, cubist style. Lots of brands and dark materials and things like that. And as they emerge from the First World War, he starts to incorporate color, very sort of bright, luminescent colors, as we can see here, with this amazing red from the red cloth."
4. Tilt up of "Guitare sur un tapis rouge"
5. Various of "Nu assis" (1960) by Picasso
6. Mid of "Portrait de femme" (1953) by Picasso
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Boyd-Bowman, Head of Contemporary Modern Art Evening Sale, Sotheby’s:
"Picasso’s appeal is undiminished. He continues to be the most highly thought of artist of the 20th Century, the most profoundly influential, and the most collectible. And that’s from really important masterpieces like this work, to works on paper, prints, ceramics. His prolific creative output."
8. Wide of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict" (1982)
9. Close zoom on detail of mask-like face
10. Various setup shots of Emma Baker walking through gallery space
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Baker, senior director and head of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s:
"This piece behind me is the headline of the contemporary portion of the evening sale next week. It is ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict’ from 1982. And it’s a great altarpiece and self-portrait and celebration of the artist as a street artist and a graffiti artist."
12. Various of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict"
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Baker, senior director and head of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s:
"So, it was painted when he was only 22 years old, and he had a meteoric rise to success. He really gained a name for himself as a street artist, creating these graffiti slogans around New York. But it was really his studio art that launched him into the forefront of contemporary art at the time. And it combines this piece many of the artist’s most important motifs, such as the three-pointed crown that we see, the mask-like face, which is sort of a moniker and synonymous with self-portraiture for the artist. It has graffiti-like scrawls, crossed out words, Latin phrases as well."
14. Various of Tamara de Lempicka’s "Nu Adosse" (1925)
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Baker, senior director and head of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s:
"We have (an) incredible amount of works by fantastic female artists in the evening sale, including this Lucy Bull right behind me, as well as Francoise Gilot, Yayoi Kusama and Elizabeth Peyton, and Paula Rego. Elizabeth Peyton, in particular, we have an extraordinary picture of Queen Elizabeth II, which is a jewel-like piece."
16. Zoom of Lucy Bull’s "10:00" (2021)
17. Various of Elizabeth Peyton’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (1995)
18. Wide of Chris Ofili’s "Trump" (1968)
19. Various of photographer shooting woman standing next to light sculpture
20. Wide of visitors inside Sotheby’s gallery
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Works by Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat are expected to sell for tens of millions of dollars at an upcoming Sotheby’s auction in London.
STORYLINE:
"Picasso’s appeal is undiminished," he says.
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