Chapter 1364: The Obsessed Frenchman
It took Matisse forty or fifty minutes before he and his family were able to carry all the valuable antiques upstairs and divide them into several rooms.
The most valuable top antique artworks naturally moved into the presidential suite where Ye Tian and Betty lived, and only by putting these treasures within his control could Ye Tian rest assured!
The rest of the antique artworks that were slightly less valuable were placed in Matisse and Anderson's rooms, and there was no problem with security under the all-round monitoring without any blind spots!
While Matisse and his family moved the antique art, Martinez sat in the living room of the presidential suite, sipping coffee and waiting patiently.
When they saw that the antique artworks were moved into the presidential suite, which was about to fill up the huge presidential suite, everyone was completely stunned!
It was only at this time that they really understood how many valuable antique artworks Ye Tian had swept in the San Tuan thrift market, and how miserable the situation of those antique dealers in the San Tuan thrift market was!
Needless to say, this was a frenzied looting, a ruthless bloodbath, unprecedented in France, not even in the world of antique collecting!
Of course, this cannot be compared to government and military-led looting, such as the ransacking of the Old Summer Palace by the Anglo-French forces, the sacking of Europe and North Africa by Napoleon, and so on.
Compared with those well-known planned and organized robberies in history, Ye Tian's crazy ransacking of the San Tuan thrift market is not worth mentioning at all!
When Matisse and the others finished carrying the work, Martinez immediately said eagerly:
"Steven, you guy is crazy to the extreme, who would have thought that you would go crazy and loot so many antique works of art from the Saint-Touan thrift market, it's incredible!
It is entirely conceivable that the Saint-Tuan thrift market must be full of grief now, and for a long time to come, the Saint-Tuan thrift market can only slowly lick its wounds and recover!
Now can you show us what you learned from your trip to the Saint-Tuan thrift market, and we'd love to see what treasures you've found in that thrift market!"
"Of course it's fine, but as you can see, there are a lot of antique artworks here, and it's obviously impossible to appreciate them one by one, and it takes a long time!
In view of this, I decided to select a few representative antique artworks for everyone to enjoy and appreciate, which will save some time and explain the problem!"
Ye Tian nodded with a chuckle and said, and proudly stretched out his index finger to draw a circle in the air, pointing to the many antique artworks that filled the room, as if displaying trophies!
Seeing his exaggerated movements, Martinez couldn't help but feel a knot, a cramp in their hearts, and at the same time, they were almost going crazy with envy!
"Well, Steven, there are so many antiques here, it's really impossible to appreciate and appraise them all, it's evening after all, so do what you do!"
Benois nodded, the envy in his tone could not be concealed.
Ye Tian nodded slightly, then got up and left his seat, walked to the fireplace, picked up an oil painting and returned to the center of the living room, and placed it on the coffee table that had been emptied.
Immediately afterwards, he gently uncovered the white cloth covering the oil painting and began to introduce the oil painting to the audience.
"Gentlemen, this is the outstanding work of Corot, the master of French realist painting of the nineteenth century, "The Forest of Fontainebleau", created in the late twenties and early thirties of the nineteenth century!
Although this oil painting is a work from the early part of Corot's artistic career, its significance is very special, its tone is fresh and bright, different from Corot's usual silver-gray tone, which is particularly precious!
I don't know if you have seen the Corot painting displayed in the New Gallery in New York? That oil painting has many similarities with this one, and it should not be difficult to distinguish the authenticity of this oil painting when comparing the two!
All of you here are top antique art appraisal experts, and your eyes are very sharp, I won't say anything superfluous, you'd better appreciate and identify it yourself, gentlemen, please!"
After speaking, Ye Tian made a gesture of please, and then sat back in his seat with a smile.
The Frenchmen 'hula-la' surrounded the coffee table, everyone was very excited, and their eyes were shining!
At the same time, Anderson walked into the living room with a few magnifying glasses and placed them on the coffee table for those French to admire and identify!
Next, there was a sigh of admiration in the living room, and it was endless!
"It's beautiful! This is the forest of Fontainebleau in the twenties of the nineteenth century, in the same vein as the landscape depicted in Corot's other paintings, but from a slightly different angle!"
"Obviously, this is a landscape painting created by Corot on the spot, not a reminiscence landscape painting, or an oil painting created after the sketch, which is commendable!"
"The hazy twilight, the trembling forest, the clear lake, the pen is loose and full of rhyme, the virtual and the real are born and the truth is seen, and the paintings are full of poetry between dream and reality!
Needless to say, this is the elegant Corot, an immortal monument in the history of landscape painting! Oh my God! I go to the Saint-Touin thrift market every week, why wasn't I the one who found this painting?
God is so unfair, so partial to that guy Steven, all good things fall on that guy, and others can only watch and envy themselves!"
In the midst of admiration, the authenticity of this painting "Forest of Fontainebleau" is already clear.
In less than ten minutes, all the antique art experts in the living room unanimously agreed that this "Forest of Fontainebleau" is indeed Corot's masterpiece, a top work of art of great value!
Due to the limited time, after the appraisal conclusion was released, Ye Tian had to wake up those obsessed Frenchmen, otherwise, God knows how much time they would spend on this oil painting.
"Gentlemen, for the sake of time, let's enjoy this "Forest of Fontainebleau" here, let's enjoy the next antique artwork, which is also a huge surprise!"
With that, Ye Tian got up and walked to the coffee table, and under the hot and reluctant gaze of Martinez, he put away the painting "Forest of Fontainebleau".
After putting the painting back next to the fireplace, he brought another box and placed it on the carpet next to the coffee table!
Immediately after, he opened the box, took out a small marble head sculpture from inside, and carefully placed it on the solid wood coffee table!
He then began to introduce the classicist-style sculpture in an excited tone.
"Gentlemen, the sculpture that is presented before your eyes at this moment is the work of Donatello, the most outstanding sculptor of the early Italian Renaissance and the fifteenth century!
As for Donatello, everyone must know that the Louvre has a collection of his sculptures, and he is a representative of the new era of sculpture in the pre-Renaissance period of Italy,......"
Before Ye Tian's words fell, those Frenchmen had already pounced directly, gathered around the coffee table, and began to admire the classical sculpture!
Each of them had an extremely excited expression, and their eyes were shining, just like seeing a yellow flower virgin of their first love!
At the same time, they kept exclaiming, making the atmosphere in the living room even hotter!
"I didn't expect the rumors to be true, it's incredible that there are Donatello's sculptures in the San Tuan thrift market!"
"Regardless of whether this sculpture is Donatello's work or not, I have decided that I will go to the Saint-Touin thrift market twice a week in the future, and I believe that God will always visit me once!"
Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is half past nine in the evening, and it is time for dinner!
But Martinez and the others are still enthusiastic, admiring the antique artworks one by one, without the slightest fatigue or the slightest intention of leaving, everyone is extremely obsessed!
Seeing this situation, Ye Tian didn't interrupt them, letting them continue to appreciate their loot, anyway, a hair is missing, but it can create a bigger momentum!
Just when those French were obsessed and arguing over an oil painting of Chardin, Ye Tian had already instructed his subordinates to order a sumptuous dinner in the hotel restaurant and send it to the presidential suite!
Then he reminded Matisse to be on guard and beware of all the people!
Those antique dealers who have been frantically ransacked by him and must be grief-stricken at this moment may not be willing to swallow this bitter fruit, and they will take risks if they can't keep it!
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