(29 Jun 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of Sotheby's auction house gallery in Paris
2. Close up of Sotheby's sign
3. Various of photographic portrait of legendary Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard
4. Wide of Sotheby's curators inside the gallery
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Samuel Valette, Sotheby's head of Impressionist and Modern art:
"Today, there is something for every type of collector. You have the exquisite monotype by Degas - 'La fete de la patronne', which will appeal to the most refined and difficult, if I dare say, collectors of monotype. But you also have works, as you say, for 100, 200 or 300 euros, which is a unique opportunity to own something which was close to the most important art dealer of the first half of the 20th century."
6. Wide of screen with Andre Derain's painting "Arbres a Collioure", sold in London on 22 June 2010
7. Wide of Paul Cezanne's 'Oil portrait d'Emile Zola'
8. Various of Picasso's 'Le repas frugal'
9. Wide of the people viewing the gallery
10. Various shots of Edgar Degas' 'La fete de la patronne'
11. Wide of auction room
12. Various auction workers liaising with phone bidders
14. Wide of auction room
15. Mid of auctioneer
16. Mid of video screen showing Renoir's painting 'Le Chapeau Epingle' and auction bidding price rising
17. Mid of worker on phone to bidder
18. Wide of auctioneer closing auction for Renoir painting
19. Worker on phone to bidder
20. Wide of auction
21. Mid of screen with Degas' painting 'La Fete de la Patronne'
22. Auctioneer closing bid
23. Zoom in to workers on phone to bidders
24. Wide of auction room
25. Close of screen with Picasso's 'Le repas frugal'
26. Mid of workers on phone to bidder
27. Close of screen showing Picasso's painting
28. Auctioneer closing bidding
29. Mid of worker on phone to bidder
30. Wide of auction
STORYLINE
A long-lost treasure trove of Renoirs, Cezannes, Degas, Gauguins and Picassos brought in 3.5 million euros (4.3 million US dollars) at auction in Paris on Tuesday.
Sotheby's offering of 139 works amassed by visionary Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who turned unknown artists into stars, was a sale art lovers had been awaiting for years, partly because of the collection's history and mystique.
"Today, there is something for every type of collector," said Sotheby's head of Impressionist and Modern art, Samuel Valette, ahead of the auction.
An Edgar Degas brothel scene - a monotype of prostitutes popping Champagne and wearing little besides their stockings - sold for 516,750 euros (629,711 US dollars).
A Pablo Picasso print of an emaciated couple drinking wine and eating bread brought the highest price of the night, 720,750 euros (877,721 US dollars).
The tale leading up to the auction contains many twists and turns - and unsolved mysteries.
Vollard died in a car crash in 1939, two months before World War II broke out.
Some of his collection came into the hands of a young Yugoslav acquaintance named Erich Slomovic, in circumstances still unclear.
Slomovic sent some of the collection home to Yugoslavia in diplomatic suitcases, and many of those works are held today by the National Museum in Belgrade.
He put others in a vault at Societe Generale bank in Paris.
Then, Slomovic, a Jew, was killed by the Nazis in 1942.
The bank vault was forgotten until 1979, when clerks opened it up, hoping to sell some of the contents off to recoup unpaid storage fees.
A sale was planned at Paris' Drouot auction house in 1981 but was cancelled by court order once Vollard's heirs contested the sale.
The highest-profile piece was already sold in London last week.
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