"This is light, Xiaoting help me get it!"

"Do you still like this kind of thing, did you paint it yourself?" Lu Yating took it, it was an oil painting.

When she was a child, Wang Jing liked to paint, and when she was in high school, she had a certain attainment in oil painting, and she was a representative of the school's art class.

Wang Jing shook her head: "Where do I have time to play this? I bought it from abroad and spent a hundred dollars!"

Zhao Tianming looked over and was slightly stunned, it turned out to be a treasure.

He put down what he was holding and walked over: "I'll take a look." ”

"You also like oil paintings?" Wang Jing said in surprise.

Lu Yating suddenly smiled: "Don't forget, he is an appraiser." Your painting, favored by him, is likely to be a treasure. ”

"Impossible, right? I bought it on the street. That's the wandering painter, a hundred dollars to choose. ”

"Isn't it, you just ask him. ”

Zhao Tianming looked at it for a while, nodded and said, "Congratulations! ”

"Ah! Did you really find a treasure, how much is it worth?" Wang Jing was ecstatic, and when he returned to China, he even wanted to throw it away. But I really like it, so I pack it back.

The picture of the oil painting is the beach playing on the side, several fishing boats are returning home, on the beach, a back is very prominent, the light of the sunset falls on the back, a very warm picture.

"I don't know too much about the market of Western oil paintings. This oil painting is supposed to be Manet's work, have you heard of it?" asked Zhao Tianming.

Manet was a French oil painter and was quite famous. He never participated in an Impressionist exhibition, but his innovative attitude to art deeply influenced the emerging painters of Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and then brought painting to the road of modernism.

Legend has it that he was influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e and Spanish painting styles, and Manet boldly adopted bright colors, abandoning the intermediate tones of traditional painting, liberating painting from the traditional shackles of pursuing three-dimensional space, and taking a revolutionary step towards two-dimensional two-dimensional creation.

"Manet, I know, the Impressionist oil painter. Is this his work?" Wang Jing was a little skeptical, how could she see it?

As far as she knows, Manet's achievements are mainly reflected in figure painting, being the first to bring the light and color of impressionism into figure painting, creating the style of impressionist painting.

His paintings have both the solid shapes of traditional painting and the bright, vivid and light-filled colors of the Impressionist school, and it can be said that he is an important painter who connects the past and the next.

Therefore, the essence of his works is mainly reflected in the characters.

But this painting, the subject of the picture, doesn't seem to be a human figure? Moreover, this is not an impressionist work in the strict sense of the word. She used to play with oil painting, impressionism, abstraction, etc., and she can still tell the difference.

Impressionism paints with extensive brushwork, and the work lacks embellishment, which is a kind of sloppy brushwork. Impressionism takes the approach of depicting scenes directly under the sunlight outside, pursuing the use of thinking to figure out the changes of light and color, and attaching the momentary sense of light to the canvas according to the processing in one's own mind.

The one in front of me seems to be an impressionist work at first glance, but it also has a classicist style.

Zhao Tianming pointed to a signature in the corner: "You should know this word better than me." ”

That's Manet's name, and it's an important symbol. Of course, obscured by the colors of the oil painting, it takes careful observation to discover this signature.

Wang Jing was also surprised when she saw it, because she had not found this signature before.

However, just signing is not certain, right? It could be someone else's work, Manet is like a star, signing someone's name?

Or, it was signed by someone behind it, and it had nothing to do with Manet at all.

Zhao Tianming smiled: "Of course I can't be sure, so I said it should be his work." I don't know if the signature is authentic, I need you to go to Manet's handwriting to compare it. However, I can identify that the paper, as well as the paint of the painting, were left over from Manet's period. ”

It is very important to identify the age of the paper, and in ancient calligraphy and painting, it is also a key factor to check.

In their antique shop, old paper is also an antique, and it is also collectible.

Zhao Tianming heard that almost all the old paper is popular, and the auction results of the old rice paper in the ancient books special session are staggering, often tens of thousands of yuan.

In the Beijing glaze factory, the value of old paper has risen sharply, not to mention the rice paper of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, even the rice paper produced in the mid-80s of the last century, only more than 20 years old, the price of a knife is at least about 20,000 yuan.

In the Qianlong period, the ice pattern wax paper, the size of a piece is only about 40 cm × 60 cm, and the price can reach tens of thousands of yuan. The popularity of old paper, in addition to the rising market, is related to its scarce stock.

Therefore, it is also very professional to identify the age of paper.

The paper in front of you is clearly a product of the 19th century. If he can't identify it, he doesn't need to be an appraiser.

Wang Jing didn't doubt it, after all, people are experts.

With the signature, and the age of the drawing paper, it can indeed be said to be Manet's work. As long as she looks for Manet's handwriting and compares it, she will know whether it is really Manet's signature.

If true, it is one step closer to Manet's work.

However, it is still not completely certain. One possibility mentioned earlier is that the painting may be the work of another painter, but it is possible that he admired Manet and took his work for someone to sign it.

"Specifically, you need to find a more professional appraisal agency for identification. However, I am sure that the price of this painting should not be less than 100,000 yuan. Zhao Tianming said to her.

In this case, if you pick up a hundred dollars, you can be regarded as picking up a big leak.

Zhao Tianming told her that the best thing was to find an institution that specializes in appraising Western paintings. To be honest, many antique connoisseurs in China are not very enthusiastic about Western cultural relics, nor do they know much about them. When you ask them for help, it's basically for nothing.

"Okay, I'm free to get a professional to help with the identification. Wang Jing hurriedly put it away.

Seeing that their daughter had picked up a treasure worth more than 100,000 yuan for 100 dollars, Wang Jing's parents were very happy. For their daughter to study abroad, they almost exhausted their assets.

Next, they can't help the girl much, and she needs to fight on her own.

Zhao Tianming hurriedly helped move things, and after moving, regardless of the Wang family's retention, he went back first.

That night, Wang Jing's family brought gifts to Lu's house for a gathering. The two families haven't sat together for a while. Today, it was Lu Yating who helped a lot.

"It turned out that Xiao Zhao helped! Xiao Jing has a future this time. Lu Mu smiled.

Seeing that the queen mother was envious of her daughter for finding such a man, Lu Yating's mother was overjoyed! She almost didn't announce that the young man was her daughter's.