London, 11 October 2013
1. Mid of doormen opening doors to zoom into wide of Andy Warhol's Silver Car Crash ( Double Disaster)
2. Close of Silver Car Crash
3. Wide of Tobias Meyer looking at Silver Car Crash
4. Close pan from Meyer to detail of Silver Car Crash
5. Low mid of Meyer walking away from Warhol painting
6. SOUNDBITE ( English): Tobias Meyer, worldwide head of contemporary art & principal auctioneer, Sotheby's
"It's Warhol at the core of what he does which is deal with life and fame and death. Andy Warhol was an artist who commented of every aspect of that time American life but really global life. And what he does here is he uses a very cruel image of a car crash and makes it into a monumental history painting like 'Guernica' by Picasso or 'The Raft of Medusa' by Gericault. It's about human nature that sometimes fails, but in its failing expresses also beauty."
7. Close pan up of Silver Car Crash
8. SOUNDBITE ( English): Tobias Meyer, worldwide head of contemporary art & principal auctioneer, Sotheby's
"As you stay away, you see a cascading black imagery of the car crash juxtaposed with the real empty reflective panel on the right and what people have said many times is when they die they see white light. It's that kind of painting."
9. Various close showing body in Silver Car Crash
10. SOUNDBITE ( English): Tobias Meyer, worldwide head of contemporary art & principal auctioneer, Sotheby's
"I have in my whole career never been able to sell a masterpiece of this calibre to somebody who just bought it for investment. All of them end up on the wall and people live with them, because you won't spend this amount of money on a object that you don't emotionally relate to. If you want to then invest you by real estate."
11. Wide of Warhol's prints of Statue of Liberty, Turquoise Car Crash and actress Elizabeth Taylor
12. Close tilt up of Elizabeth Taylor
13. Close pull to focus of Taylor's eye
14. Close of Statue of Liberty
15. Close of turquoise crash
16. Close tilt from champagne in glasses to one sculpture from of artist Juan Munoz's Conversation Piece V
17. Close from champagne being poured to "Ornamental Despair (painting for Ian Curtis) copied from The Stars Like Dust 1986 by Chris Foss
18. Close of the above
19. Tilt up from metal sculpture by John Chamberlain (1979) to painting by Chris Foss
20. Wide of central gallery
21. Mid of Oliver Barker walking into gallery and smiling at Christian Louboutin boots
22. Close pan from Barker to boots
23. Close of red version of Hermes iconic Cavale Saddle with custom red stitching
24. Wide of the Red Auction installation including Dom Perignon Oenotheque 1966 Magnum in Custom red cooler and suitcase set by Jony Ive and Mark Newson
25. SOUNDBITE ( English): Oliver Barker, deputy chairman, Sotheby's Europe
"The pinnacle, if you like, is the collaboration between Jony and Marc because these are really the sort of Michelangelo and Donatello of their particular moment. And they've built a desk together, which is extraordinary, it's a collaborative piece that's unique in the world there's only one of one as it were. The other one is a Leica camera that they've built together literally from the ground upwards. Which, I think they spent something like two-hundred-thousand man hours sort of working on and putting into research and development and it's an exceptional work."
26. Various of Louboutin boots
27. Wide of Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Sister and Brother, 1996 (left) next to Mao painted in 1960 by Yan Pei-Ming
28. Close tilt up of Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Sister and Brother
29. Wide of Wide of Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Sister and Brother with drill in foreground
30. Low wide of Zeng Fanzhi's Mask Series 26
31. Close pan of faces on Mask Series 26
32. Wide of gallery with Love sculpture by Robert Indiana in foreground
33. SOUNDBITE ( English): Oliver Barker, deputy chairman, Sotheby's Europe
"Chinese contemporary art is being taken very on a global level to the extent that the price is now are very, very close to the masters of western late-twentieth century art as well. So, I think that the interesting thing about the marketplace now is that the taste for difficult subject matter is perhaps at a more acceptable level than its been ever before. People want to be challenged, this is not a superficial taste-making moment."
34. Wide of gallery for Mimi Foundation auction with painter Yan Pei-Ming's portrait of Prince Charles at centre
35. Various close of Prince Charles portrait
36. Wide of Tenderness, sculpture made from knives by Farhad Moshiri (right) next to Chalk or Charcoal by Pascale Marthine Tayou
37. Close of knives in Tenderness sculpture
38. Close of Library 4 by Liu Wei
39. Wide of Liu Wei sculpture in front of Immersion by Jagannath Panda
40. Wide of gallery with Prince Charles portrait (right) and sculpture of crouching policeman by Wang Du in background
41. Wide zoom into Paradise Lost metal sculpture showing stabbed heart by Entang Wiharso
42. Various of giant applique by Madein Company called Night Walk Palace
43. Wide Pan of Wang Du's police siege sculpture called Image Gruguite with collage in background by Ramin Haerizadeh called Emperor's New Dress
44. Various close of policemen sculptures by Wang Du
45. Close of collage by Ramin Haerizadeh called Emperor's New Dress - We Choose To Go To the Moon
46. Wide of gallery with Magic Ball by Takashi Murakami
47. Close of detail from Magic Ball by Takashi Murakami
48. Close of sculpture called Peaked Cap by Takashi Murakami
49. Wide zoom into Love sculpture by Robert Indiana
50. Close of Reclining Figure by Henry Moore
51. Close zoom out from Tete de Femme by Pablo Picasso
52. Close of Picasso portrait
53. Close of Picasso signature
54. Mid rear view of Simon Shaw in front of Picasso painting
55. Close of Shaw
56. Zoom into Picasso as Shaw exits shot
57. SOUNDBITE ( English): Simon Shaw, head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Sotheby's
"This is a really important pivotal moment in Picasso's life he meets Marie-Therese in 1927 that's in 1935 it's when Maya's born. But she's really been the muse for the past seven or eight years of his work at this point."
58. Various of Roy Lichtenstein's Puzzled Portrait
59. Wide of gallery, Alberto Giacometti's Grand Tete de Diego central on plinth with Bruce Marden's The Attended (right) and Gerhard Richter's A.B. Courbet behind
60. Wide of Alberto Giacometti's Grand Tete de Diego in foreground of Gerhard Richter's A.B. Courbet
61. Various of Giacometti sculpture
62. Wide low view of Anthony Gormley sculpture Fill on floor
63. Various of Andreas Gursky's prison photograph Stateville Illinois
LEADIN
Art worth millions of dollars is about to go on sale in New York.
The highlight of the Sotheby's auction is a rare Andy Warhol, which is expected to sell for around $60 million plus works Picasso, and the first portrait of Prince Charles by a Chinese artist.
STORYLINE
Sotheby's isn't pulling any punches, it hits you as soon as you enter the gallery.
Warhol's Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) is definitely the star attraction of this sale.
The auction house estimates it'll fetch in excess of $60 million dollars when it goes under the hammer.
This huge work of art has only been seen in public once in 26 years.
The 1963 silkscreen measures 8 feet by 13 feet and is a print of multiple photographs that show the aftermath of a car crash when the vehicle hit a tree.
Art critics say it is one of Warhol's most important pieces.
On November 13th in New York, Tobias Meyer, the principal auctioneer and the worldwide head of contemporary art will bring his hammer down this sought after work.
Meyer says: "It's Warhol at the core of what he does which is deal with life and fame and death. Andy Warhol was an artist who commented of every aspect of that time American life but really global life. And what he does here is he uses a very cruel image of a car crash and makes it into a monumental history painting like 'Guernica' by Picasso or 'The Raft of Medusa' by Gericault. It's about human nature that sometimes fails, but in its failing expresses also beauty."
He adds: "As you stay away, you see a cascading black imagery of the car crash juxtaposed with the real empty reflective panel on the right and what people have said many times is when they die they see white light. It's that kind of painting."
Sotheby's says the global art market is thriving, but while art is a good investment Meyer say's these aren't the sort of paintings that will be stored until they increase in value.
He says: "I have in my whole career never been able to sell a masterpiece of this calibre to somebody who just bought it for investment. All of them end up on the wall and people live with them, because you won't spend this amount of money on a object that you don't emotionally relate to. If you want to then invest you by real estate."
Warhol fans will be spoilt, the gallery has his icons including actress Elizabeth Taylor and the Statue of Liberty
The sale is a glitzy event.
As well as the modern and contemporary artworks like Juan Munoz's Conversation Piece V, there a lot here that alludes to the world of pop like Ornamental Despair, which was painted for Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
The auction will also launch another of it's 'RED' sales set up by rock star Bono in collaboration with designers Sir Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson to raise cash to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The sale contains the most unusual items like this pair of Christian Louboutin boots.
There's also a Dom Perignon Oenotheque 1966 Magnum in Custom red cooler and a suitcase set by Ive and Newson.
Deputy Chairman Oliver Barker says: "The pinnacle, if you like, is the collaboration between Jony and Marc because these are really the sort of Michelangelo and Donatello of their particular moment. And they've built a desk together, which is extraordinary, it's a collaborative piece that's unique in the world there's only one of one as it were. The other one is a Leica camera that they've built together literally from the ground upwards. Which, I think they spent something like two-hundred-thousand man hours sort of working on and putting into research and development and it's an exceptional work."
Among the most striking works here are Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Sister and Brother.
It shows the woman in a traditional Chairman Mao suit while her brother is taking chances with a western image topped off by the red tie.
The painting is next to a portrait of Mao by Yan Pei-Ming.
One of the most famous of the Chinese artworks here is Zeng Fanzhi's Mask Series 26.
They are all loaded with political comment.
Barker says: "Chinese contemporary art is being taken very on a global level to the extent that the price is now are very, very close to the masters of western late-twentieth century art as well. So, I think that the interesting thing about the marketplace now is that the taste for difficult subject matter is perhaps at a more acceptable level than its been ever before. People want to be challenged, this is not a superficial taste-making moment."
Yan Pei-Ming is the first artist to paint a portrait of Britain's Prince Charles.
The work is expected to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Mimi Foundation Cancer Charity.
As well as the edgy and political works like these the sale contains one of the most celebrated Picasso's.
This is a portrait of the artist's mistress just as she became pregnant.
Sotheby's expert Simon Shaw says: "This is a really important pivotal moment in Picasso's life he meets Marie-Therese in 1927 that's in 1935 it's when Maya's born. But she's really been the muse for the past seven or eight years of his work at this point."
Lichtenstein will also boost cash from the sale, but one of the most celebrated artworks to come under the hammer is Alberto Giacometti's Grand Tete de Diego which has centre stage in the gallery.
It's expected to fetch up to $50 million (US) which Andreas Gursky's panoramic photographs are estimated to fetch million more.
