Nanyun City, Merrill Lynch Gallery.

In the office, Lin Hailou was looking at the album when there was a knock on the door.

Li Chuan, the head of the gallery, walked in.

"Boss, someone wants to take a painting to our art exhibition. ”

"Master?" Lin Hailou asked.

Li Chuan shook his head.

"Then you can't just follow the rules. ”

Lin Hailou was a little surprised, Nanyun City is a small city, and his Merrill Lynch Gallery cannot be compared with those top galleries in terms of scale and influence. But in terms of earnings, it is not inferior at all.

The biggest reason is that he has an excellent vision, and he knows how to train and package painters, and his business ability is not bad.

His gallery holds exhibitions free of charge. The biggest source of all income comes from the commissions of the paintings. Secondly, there is the venue fee and publicity fee paid by the painters.

The commission of the painting refers to the painting sold in the gallery, and the gallery can get two to fifty percent of the account.

As for the venue fee and publicity fee, the gallery is not optimistic, or the painter himself only wants to increase his fame and does not want to sell his paintings, but wants to put them in the gallery or participate in the art exhibition held by the gallery. If the gallery provides the venue and promotes something, it naturally charges a certain fee.

As for the cost, it depends on how the two sides negotiate and the quality of the painting.

Lin Hailou's surprise is that if it weren't for the work of a famous artist, Li Chuan would have been able to get an idea.

Li Chuan is in charge of all the affairs of the gallery. He is the boss, and the most important thing is to control the general direction and solve some things that Li Chuan can't decide.

Li Chuan said helplessly: "The other party asked to take over the security and maintenance of all art exhibitions. ”

"What kind of international joke? You just can't just refuse. ”

Lin Hailou was dissatisfied, he was not a famous artist, and he actually made crooked requirements for the gallery, with an attitude that the gallery was too low-grade, and the security and maintenance work were not good.

This is not the first time he has encountered such a situation. In the past, young people who felt good about themselves came to the door and asked for this and that, thinking that their paintings would be comparable to Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci in one or two hundred years. Now he is not famous, and it is completely because people nowadays can't understand his art.

A painter without personality can't paint a painting with personality, in line with the principle of not letting go of any painter, Lin Hailou really took a serious look at each other's paintings.

As a result, he could only admit that he couldn't see where the other party's ultra-modern artistic sense was.

"The price offered by the other party is very high, and I wonder if I have encountered a neurotic ......," Li Chuan smiled bitterly.

"Very high?" Lin Hailou dismissed: "Even if you give one million, you have to follow the rules." Our gallery doesn't give a booth just a lot of money, at least we have to come up with some real materials. ”

"What about 10 million?" Li Chuan asked.

"Ten million?"

Lin Hailou was a little skeptical that his ears had heard it wrong.

"That's right!" Li Chuan nodded.

Lin Hailou sighed slightly: "What a painter lacks most is recognition, another young man who has not been recognized for a long time, has an unstable mentality, and is nervous by reality...... If he can barely meet the standard of the exhibition, let him be on it for free! No one can say clearly about the painting, and maybe there are really people who Wang Ba thinks it is very good when he sees mung beans and is willing to pay a high price to collect them. As for his request, you can explain patiently, don't discourage people's enthusiasm too much. What if the work is too bad...... If you buy it for three or five thousand, you can always give him comfort. ”

"The problem is that people say they are worried that the transportation will not be safe on the road, and the paintings are now in a strict secrecy stage, and they are not even allowed to show the photos. And it's not the creator himself, but a guy in his forties who claims to be an agent......" Li Chuan scratched his head and said: "The other party said that as long as we nodded and agreed, it would arrive within 10 million and a half minutes." Looking at words and deeds, it doesn't look like a neurotic, and it sounds like it's true. ”

Lin Hailou smiled.

Ten million?

It's not an international joke, it's an interstellar joke.

His gallery, if you put aside the connections he has accumulated over the years, the total value is only a few million.

Lin Hailou joked: "Spend 10 million just to participate in an art exhibition held by a gallery worth several million, why don't you just try to contact the art exhibition held by the National Art Museum? Or, simply buy my gallery? He wants to open 10 million, and I will really sell Merrill Lynch Gallery to him." Anyway, the biggest asset of our gallery is the friendship with those painters, and it will still be prosperous in another place. ”

"I really asked. Li Chuan shrugged his shoulders: "People said that they have investigated, although the scale of our gallery is not the largest, but it has always been cultivating and supporting young painters, and sometimes we do it at a loss, and we can't find a few conscientious galleries like ours in China." In addition, our gallery is about to hold an art exhibition, so come and support us. ”

Lin Hailou was speechless.

The first half of the period made him very proud, the painter needs the recognition of art lovers, and as the owner of the gallery, he also needs the recognition of painters. And he has been working towards this direction.

Facts have also proved that he did the right thing. Although the gallery had a hard time getting started, it got through the first few years, and then it got better and better.

Especially in recent years, Lin Hailou has almost been lying down to collect money.

Because over the years, although Merrill Lynch Gallery has not discovered and cultivated first-line painters, it has discovered and cultivated many second- and third-tier painters. And many of these second- and third-tier painters were depressed in the early stage. Relying on the funding, packaging and publicity of Merrill Lynch Gallery, regardless of gains and losses, he went down this road and slowly became famous.

Although there are white-eyed wolves among these painters, they have not paid much attention to the small gallery of Merrill Lynch after becoming famous. But more than half of the painters chose to continue to give their work to Merrill Lynch, rather than attending exhibitions held by major art museums or sending them to auctions.

Especially a second-line painter who once asked him to borrow 200,000 yuan for his father's treatment, now he is famous, not only all his works are handed over to Merrill Lynch Gallery, but no matter what Lin Hailou says, people just refuse to accept 19 cents, and they have to divide 55 into life and death.

The price of a second-tier painter's work can reach tens of millions.

Merrill Lynch Gallery earns more than one million dollars a year from this second-tier painter alone.

If there is no money, Lin Hailou doesn't particularly care, anyway, he is not short now, which is why he has never thought of opening a chain gallery. It is the praise that a painter cares about the most is that he can have such a strong sense of identification with himself.

To have a painter praised as a conscientious gallery and willing to pay a high price for an exhibition is also a recognition of him.

Listen to how cool it is.

But what the hell is the second half?

It is as if he is a first-line painter, and giving his works to Merrill Lynch Gallery for display can greatly increase the reputation of Merrill Lynch Gallery.

Ding dong!

When Lin Hailou was crying and laughing, the text message on his mobile phone sounded.

When I picked it up, my eyes widened a little.

On his private account, he received a transfer of 10 million.

What's going on?

Just when Lin Hailou was a little dazed, his mobile phone received a text message again.

Click on one, it's an unfamiliar number.

In order to prove that it is not crazy words, pay the venue fee first, and hope that the specific cooperation can be discussed in detail.

Lin Hailou was dumbfounded.

10 million venues and publicity fees, is it true?

But before this contract was signed, he transferred the money, aren't you afraid that you won't admit it?

This person is inevitably too impulsive, right?