After the furniture was moved, all that was left in the warehouse was a large number of Western porcelain and oil paintings: especially the first batch of those in the fifties, because of the special period, the original storage registration books had long been lost, and the agricultural curator also took this opportunity to take the inventory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"20th century British industrial porcelain vase, up to 100 pieces a pair, RMB... In the eighties and nineties of the nineteenth century, Italian crystal glass trays, a pair of 50 yuan... A set of European daily porcelain in the 30s, 30 pieces, how did this thing get to our warehouse? Who wants someone to buy it home, and the new one can be used..."

The east and west flow shelf passed in front of the eyes of Nong Bosheng, and listening to his quick appraisal and quotation was simply a kind of enjoyment.

Sometimes I will stop and exchange a few words with Zhang Nan, which is not a lot of opportunities.

As soon as large quantities of Western porcelain and glassware were out of the warehouse, the cheap ones were basically bought by the employees.

Nowadays, it costs about 20 yuan to buy a Western-style glass tray for fruits and candies in a handicraft store, and this process is not as good as the one in front of you - crystal glass made in Italy more than 100 years ago, and the staff of the exhibition hall certainly know that it is still worth 50 yuan.

Although the salary is more than 100 points now, even if the price of domestic ordinary porcelain and glassware is different from the price of cabbage in 20 years, it is still relatively expensive.

So even if the director of the agricultural curator sells dozens or hundreds of prices, the staff basically buys them all.

Zhang Nan will not compete with the people in the exhibition hall for small profits, and will be happy to watch the excitement -- the "grand occasion" of handling Western goods 20 years ago, which he has only heard of in legend, has reappeared, and it is estimated that this scene will never appear again.

"You don't want it?" Seeing Zhang Nan, he watched the excitement, and Nong Bosheng couldn't help but ask.

"Didn't you buy it? Zhang Nan replied with a smile.

"I bought too much 20 years ago, and it would cost a few cents, a few cents, and you see that a few of our old guys here haven't moved, and there are a lot of them at home, leaving them for young people, and these things will be fashionable at home.

In the past two years, I began to value these things, and the guy at home put away the set of clothes I used to eat, not to mention the vase I bought for flower arrangement. ”

"Cousin did the right thing, maybe it will be worth a lot of money in ten years!"

Nong Bosheng's wife is Xiang Weirong's cousin, and Zhang Nan's title is also on the stick.

Nong Bosheng did not say anything against it: at the beginning, a large number of Western items were confiscated, and everyone could see whether the things were good or not, and he was a person who understood whether they were treasures or not.

That will be so many good things are cabbage prices, even if Nong Bosheng is old-fashioned, he will always pick some good goods for his own use or give them away.

Zhang Nan knew that when his cousin and cousin-in-law got married, Nong Bosheng gave some Western products as gifts, of course, the kind that can be used in life.

For example, the pair of precious Venetian crystal glass tribute plates are not comparable to the pair of 50 yuan trays that were just bought.

......

At this time, the staff who moved the goods took out a strange-looking vase from a wooden box, Zhang Nan smiled bitterly when he saw it, and glanced at Nong Bosheng by the way.

Nong Bosheng also saw it, and said directly: "Don't think about it, this thing can enter the hall." ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Nan was completely dead: he saw at a glance that the thing was not a pure Western product, but a "combination of local and foreign" utensils.

A whole warehouse of Western goods that can't go up or down, this will not be easy to appear interested, but the result is still a museum exhibition, a little depressed!

"Western European gilt copper inlaid Ming Dynasty Longquan kiln celadon square vase, a representative export porcelain reprocessing products. As soon as Nong Bosheng finished the identification, he said to the side: "Xiao Chen, file and put it into storage." ”

Well, there's nothing to do with everybody.

This is a kind of handicraft that is very strange in the eyes of Chinese people: Western craftsmen use their own craftsmanship to wrap a very chic and beautifully carved copper shelf on the outside of the imported Chinese porcelain.

There are a lot of foreign goods, and this special situation in the Yongcheng Exhibition Hall is estimated to be similar only in Shanghai.

Before the liberation, there were many offices of Western countries in Yongcheng, and Zhang Nan estimated that the large courtyard of the exhibition hall may have been built by gringos, and it was not necessarily the smell of European architecture everywhere.

There are many Western-style buildings left on the same street, and there are churches.

At the beginning, there were many Westerners living in Yongcheng, and they brought a lot of things from the west, and under the influence of hundreds of years, many of the locals in Yongcheng were accustomed to Western-style life.

At the beginning, all the foreign gadgets that were out of place were either destroyed or put into the warehouse of the exhibition hall, and a batch of them were destroyed during the special period, and what was left was actually okay.

When all the Western porcelain was cleaned up, Zhang Nan bought a pair of vases: French things from the second half of the 19th century, with blue tones, which were used as good decorations.

It was already noon, but Director Nong decided to make persistent efforts and hurry up to clear the warehouse, and only gave everyone 40 minutes to eat.

Zhang Nan and the others also had a meal in the cafeteria, and saw that the staff of the exhibition hall had no complaints: probably everyone has their own gains, and they all understand that this year's year-end benefits are estimated to be absolutely rich.

Everyone's work momentum just now is good, and if there is a benefit, there is motivation!

As soon as he had finished eating, there were only two piles of more than 100 oil paintings left: some of them were not allowed to be burned by the curator at the beginning, and the other part was not even remembered by himself—they were the first batch of Western objects to be sent to the exhibition hall.

"A lot of religious story paintings are brought from the side?" In the warehouse, Zhang Nan said without looking.

"It's boring, almost. ”

Nong Bosheng is also looking at the paintings, he hasn't been here for a few years, and he needs to take a closer look.

A bunch of oil paintings outside are all confiscated oil paintings from a special period, although they all have the author's signature, but many of them even need to find where the signature is for a while, and they still can't recognize or remember who the author is when they find it.

Maybe these painters are not very famous, and with the obscure signature of the oil paintings, it is really hard to know who the author of these paintings is!

Because the signature of oil painting is different from that of Chinese painting: Chinese painting can be signed in the form of calligraphy with great fanfare, filling in the blank of the picture, and then stamped with the name seal to complete the whole picture;

Oil paintings are generally signed with hidden signatures: vaguely vaguely appearing as if they are nothing, recognizable without ringing the picture.

Some painters sign their names on the "props" or patterns of the picture to make it fit in with the picture: for example, Holbein's "Portrait of Ambacher" is written on a wooden plaque on the background tree, Delacroix's "Liberty Leads the People", which is signed on a sloping wood in the distance, Serov's "The Girl and the Peach", which is signed in the lower right near the tablecloth...

Many are abbreviated names, and some even have one or two letters

There are a total of 52 paintings outside, both large and small, "Do you want it?"

"What price?"

"$100 a piece, it's all yours. ”

Zhang Nan rolled his eyes: "There are a lot of old paintings by unknown painters in the American thrift market for $5, and you are shouting prices all over the sky." ”

"Don't pull it. ”

"Yes, why not! Maybe there's a little famous one you don't recognize, maybe you can't recognize it. ”

"I said Xiao Zhang, it's been more than 30 years since I left the Soviet Union, and it's normal that I can't recognize it, so you should be lucky. ”

Zhang Nan actually thought the same way, "Then you have to give me a certificate, and I have to take these out for people who know how to see." ”

"Okay, no problem. ”

......

After reading this pile, there are still the last forty or fifty oil paintings wrapped in kraft paper, which even the director of agriculture has basically never seen.

Demolition one by one... Yes, there are more than a dozen religious paintings, and it is not easy to dismantle a landscape painting, according to Nong Bosheng's words: this painting technique is also a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, but at least the fourth year.

I looked for it on the front and back, left and right, front and back, and really found a line of very small pencil characters on the back: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts...

The student's drawing is still a domestic product.

The size is large enough, the frame material is also good, and Nong Bosheng plans to hang it in the reception room of the exhibition hall as a decoration and use it as waste.

Before the last large-scale painting was unboxed, Nong Bosheng finally found a work by an Italian painter that he had an impression of, but it was in vain to talk to Zhang Nan.

I haven't heard of it at all, and I guess it's a little famous at best.

"$10,000? ”

"Don't pull it. ”

"Yes, don't make this move, I'll still give you 50,000 yuan, why do you like it. ”

"Deal!"

The accountant on the side was full of smiles: The curator is amazing! This is everyone's welfare!

The last painting with the frame is nearly two meters long and one meter five wide, which is very large!

Unpacking the package, as soon as the kraft paper was removed, Nong Bosheng's eyes narrowed, and he immediately scooped up reading glasses from his pocket.

And Zhang Nan reacted even more: his brows were furrowed, and a sentence popped up in his head: "Really fake?"

This is an oil on canvas painting of a group of people attending a ball, the canvas is about one meter three by one meter eight, depicting a large number of figures, giving a slightly crowded feeling: crowded, colorful and jumping, and lively, just looking at it gives people a strong impression of joy and joy!

The main color of the picture is blue and purple, so that the characters produce a multi-layered sense of rhythm from near to far: the painter focuses on the depiction of a group of figures in the close-up scene, vividly showing the light and color effects on the faces of the characters and the sense of confusion caused by light and shadow, rendering the atmosphere of the ball.

"This is an impressionist work, and the treatment of light and color spots is very masterful, and you can see that the overall tone and atmosphere of the picture have a strong effect of fluttering and shimmering.

Master, absolute master!

Nong Bosheng is not a master of oil painting, but he is a top sculpture master in China, and he still has this appreciation for oil painting.

After searching for a long time, I found that there was the artist's signature on a tree in the corner of the painting: Zhang Nan's brows furrowed even deeper after finding the signature.

"I recognize it. ”

Zhang Nan preemptively said this paragraph, because although the signature is an abbreviated letter, Zhang Nan just knew: in the big truck in the Port of Hamburg, there is a painting with the same signature!

Nong Bosheng here also frowned deeper and deeper the more he looked at it, just a short time ago, Alyosha who was next to him had already noticed the abnormality of the two, and had already pulled Karimi to chat with the treasurer of the exhibition hall about dozens of religious paintings.

Alyosha is of Russian ethnicity, and he still knows a little bit of Western religious stories: the small treasury will be the exhibition hall where the people are left with the curator and finance, and Alyosha has a first-class ability to observe words and colors, and knows that there is a problem with the huge oil painting, and it is estimated that it is still a big problem!.

"Curator Nong, this thing shouldn't be here, right?"

"Well, it should be in France. ”

"Look closely, is this a replica?"

Nong Bosheng shook his head and said: "It doesn't feel like it, the technique is too clever, and it has been painted for at least 100 years, I remember that in 1879 at the Paris Salon, his painting "Madame Charpantière and Her Children" was well received, and he received an honorarium of 1,000 francs.

He was poor to death before, and his life took a turn for the better since that painting, so I guess no one will copy his paintings, right?"

"I said, Comrade Curator, I remember that the authenticity of this thing seems to be in the hands of the French, what do you say?"

The two of them spoke very softly, like doing underground work again!

Zhang Nan kicked the ball to Nong Bosheng - there was no hurry at this time: the two of them were more and more inclined to believe that this was the real work of the painter, but it was just a dumb riddle.

If he was too anxious, the curator would turn a few corners in his head, and he would really have nothing to do with himself.

Because this is a "Ball at the Moulin Rouge", the painter is Pierre-Auguste Renoir!

Renoir has four famous paintings: "Lunch on a Yacht", "Moulin Rouge Street Dance", "Lisa", "Madame Charpantière and her children", which Zhang Nan and Nong Bosheng know.

However, Zhang Nan still has what Nong Bosheng doesn't know: "Moulin Rouge Street Dance" will be auctioned for $78.1 million in 1990!

If memory serves, it was the highest price ever paid for an oil painting in the world at that time!

The two of them were talking in a low voice, and the accountant Ying on the other side was chatting with Alyosha with a religious discourse, discussing the light of the character's face at the door.

"No, you wait for me. ”

Nong Bosheng ignored Zhang Nan after speaking, turned around and left the warehouse.

Zhang Nan gave him a look, and Qiu Bo followed.

After a while, Nong Bosheng came back first, and Zhang Nan saw Qiu Bo, who came in behind, and made a group of gestures, which seemed to mean "didn't call".

Nong Bosheng's expression was slightly excited, but he was a little puzzled, and he was still holding an old album in his hand.

Russian, I don't understand.

"It's weird, come and see. ”

As he spoke, he handed the album that had been opened to Zhang Nan, and on it was a photo of the color "Moulin Rouge Ball".

"I brought it back from Moscow, and this photo is of the original French painting. ”

Zhang Nan compared the two and couldn't help but burst out: "What the hell is this?!"

The figure on the far left of the photograph shows a woman sitting on a chair with most of her face exposed, and a pair of dancers in a black suit and a dark blue dress in the distance.

In this oil painting in the storeroom, the woman on the left is almost completely exposed, and to the left of the pair of dancers in the distant view, there is a pair of dancers.

Some poor imitators sometimes delete a few characters from the picture when imitating the original with a large number of characters. But the painting in the warehouse is highly skilled and of the right age, and there are even "two and a half" figures! )