The first work that detonated the price came from Andy Warhol, the last set of self-portraits in front of him, showing himself in six different colors in the form of silkscreen ink - the starting price is 8 million.

Within a few minutes, it broke through the 10 million mark.

After this threshold, price growth begins to slow down. The price of Andy Warhol's works fluctuates greatly, one is that he has not been around for so long, less than 30 years, and the other is that the number of surviving works is relatively large, and one of the advantages of the pop master is the rapid creation - the book is written in the form of "Self-Portrait" silkscreen printing ink, which is essentially a printing technique, and a work takes about 15 seconds.

15 seconds!

Probably a hand-drawn artist can't even draw the crudest base sketch.

Andy Warhol is proud of it.

In fact, in Lin's view, the pop artist is a lovable art-dealer — very honest, not too obscure. He once said bluntly, all my art and talent can be seen by you at a glance, in 15 seconds, that's all, that's it.

In mainstream reviews, Andy Warhol's followers described him as "the king of pop art, the god of dicks, the incredible mortal ......", and most importantly, "he turned art into a reproducible commodity."

However, he was not very commercial - although after his death, he was invincible in the auction house. But these basically have nothing to do with him personally.

……

"Didn't you say that classicism was revived and modernism was declining? Why is it still so crazy and exaggerated?"

Mr. Liu came with his little wife, and European travel and shopping were the main dishes, and participating in the auction was the side dish. Xiaojiao's wife has obviously done her homework, after all, Mr. Liu, as a top collector, wants to capture the hearts of the rich, and it is definitely not competitive enough to rely on his face and whatever.

"Hehe," Mr. Liu was amused: "No matter how much modernism declines, it is impossible to affect the price of masters like Andy Warhol." Besides, the decline of modernism is only relative to the strong rise of Lin Haven, and if it must be compared at present, modernism is still the mainstream art in general. ”

"Is that so? Why is Lin Haven's starting price so much higher than him?"

"Father" starts shooting 65 million US dollars!

True to the name of the finale.

"Hmm...... This allows Mr. Huang to give you a long insight, Huang is always an expert in Lin Haven. Mr. Liu ridiculed Huang Zuowen, this colleague who has worked with Lin Haven is indeed the first person in the Huaguo family to study Lin Haven deeply.

The little wife stared at the black round eyes and looked at Huang Zuowen.

"The price of Lin Haven's works has been relatively stable, and it has been steadily increasing, which is related to the artist's own characteristics, like Andy Warhol, he painted a lot, and it is this way of screen printing, it can reach 10 or 20 million, which is already crazy, and there are also times when millions can't be sold. But Lin Haven is different, he has few works, very few, thousands of works, dozens of him, you think about the price. And for each of his works, he basically made some progress, and rarely said that he created a large number of works at a certain stage of art. For example, the now famous source classicism, there are about five or six mature works - one was bought by the wine seller in the United States, 80 million US dollars, "Black Dragon Pond". Today this is the second one, or a large portrait, and even a realist control group, although it is not a group auction, but there must be a bonus in the price, if someone can buy the one in the hand of the old man Dou in the future, it will be even more amazing. ”

"And what about the remaining three or four?"

Mr. Liu patted her hand and smiled: "In Lin Haiwen's own studio, I don't know when I will take it out." So today this one is hard to find. ”

“…… Lao Liu, you really came for "Father". Huang Zuowen pointed to Mr. Liu.

Mr. Liu did not deny it.

They were not interested in Andy Warhol's painting, and it was finally acquired by Abu's agent for a sky-high price of 22 million - a very high price for a work of similar caliber in recent years.

It can be seen how irritable today's atmosphere is.

After Andy Warhol, there was a work by Basquiat, which sold for 12 million.

Francis Bacon, Three Portraits Study, 10 million.

Jackson Pollock, 9 million.

Adrian Gottlieb, 7.2 million.

……

When the big screen on both sides appeared, the familiar face of vicissitudes - "Father", and the sky-high starting price of $65 million, the scene undoubtedly ushered in the most enthusiastic moment.

Mr. Liu has no time to pay attention to his little wife.

Huang Zuowen also adjusted his sitting posture a little nervously.

"I don't think I need to introduce or promote this work anymore. Its name is "Father", from the Chinese painter Lin Haiwen, and it is a mature work of the original classical school. Haven Lin, 28, born in Linchuan, China, is the world's leading auction record holder for living artists, and his previous work "Black Dragon Pond and Outside the Studio Window" sold for a record $80 million at Sotheby's Autumn in New York, and this portrait of "Father" is the first and only large-scale portrait he has created after his artistic style has matured. The picture shows the image of a Chinese father, with a face full of furrows and very rich details...... "Although the auctioneer stated that he did not need to introduce more, he still chattered for several minutes.

"The starting price is 65 million, and the price reduction shall not be less than 100,000 yuan each time. The "Father" auction starts now. ”

"80 million!"

In one breath, it rose by half Andy Warhol.

Everyone looked at the bidding sound, and their hearts were beating - from the head of LV, Bernard Arnault, the richest man in France, this is the heart of the imperative.

"Scary wants. Mr. Liu leaned on his body: "80 million is too little, if you shout 100 million in one breath, there is still some hope." ”

"Hehe, there's no hope, everyone has their own bottom line, and they won't dance with it. Huang Zuowen also shook his head, not thinking that Bernard could achieve his goal.

Sure enough, the huge shock of 80 million only gave everyone a slight break - the price of 81 million was called out.

81.2 million!

82 million!

……

So little by little, slowly, tentatively, until the price of 85 million - at this time, it has exceeded the starting price of 20 million.

"I can't beat it if I break 100 million. Taking a deep breath, Mr. Liu raised his hand: "Ninety!"

90, 90 million - 90 million!

Ooh!

This is even more thrilling than Bernard's 80 million just now, because it means that the real competition of more than 80 million has arrived.

92 million!

95 million!

96 million!

98 million!

99 million!

"100 million!"

Mr. Liu was sideways - this price came from Huang Zuowen on his side.