Collection of a Lifetime

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1715
Date Released
16 Apr 1962
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Collection of a Lifetime. DESCRIPTION: 35 paintings, collected by Somerset Maugham over half a century, sold at Sotheby’s in less than an hour. They included a Renoir river scene, Gauguin’s picture of a Tahitian girl (painted on a glass door), and Picasso’s double painting, with Death of Harlequin on one side; Woman in a Garden on the other. It helped the collection’s total price to reach over half a million. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS room filled with paintings. CU painting. MS Mr Peter Wilson auctioneering the paintings at Sotheby’s. Various shots of auction. LS of the auction of Gauguin’s Tahitian girl painted on a glass door. CU painting. MS Mr Peter Wilson auctioneering. LS bidders. Various shots of the bidding for Gauguin’s painting. MS painting. LS bidder. MS painting sold and taken away. MS woman shows Picasso’s double painting Death of Harlequin on one side, she turns it over to woman in a Garden on the other. MS Mr Peter Wilson starts the bidding. MS painting pan to Mr Peter Wilson. MS bidders. MS Mr Wilson bangs the table and the painting is sold at £80,000. MS painting is removed from stand.
Keywords
Arts and crafts; Writers
Locations
London
Card file number
84200
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Mark McDonald
Length of story (in feet)
218
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Collection of a Lifetime', British Movietone News Issue No. 1715, 16 Apr 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/24590 (Accessed 18 Jul 2025)