Chapter 1088: Chicken Ribs and Baby
"This painting is indeed the real work of Picasso Master, according to the current market situation, the estimate is about 100 million US dollars, such a painting is very rare, I have never seen it before, it seems that we still know too little about Picasso Master!"
Just as Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Mengxun were discussing how to choose the antique to be exchanged, the results of John Lampard's first painting came out.
"More than 100 million dollars, more expensive than yesterday's painting. Zhang Tianyuan secretly said in his heart, sure enough, it was right to listen to Li Mingguang's words, if he didn't figure out the approximate value of these words, he would definitely suffer a loss when he exchanged them in the future. Zhang Tianyuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the next thing was to wait.
Amer Sloan was also relieved, and then excited, but he disguised himself well, and escaped by urine, probably going to the toilet to make a call.
He had been urinating for two hours, and he didn't know what phone calls had made him call for so long.
By the time he returned, John Lampard had already identified all 28 paintings, in fact, the main reason was that the first few paintings were more difficult to identify, and the later ones could be determined by comparing them, and the speed was naturally faster.
"There are four paintings here that are worth so much that I don't dare to estimate them, but if I had to say a price, it would be at least about 300 million to 400 million dollars, and I guess there will be people rushing to ask for them. The four paintings John Lampard said are Picasso's nightmares, these four paintings have never been published, and they can be said to be very novel four paintings, which have a very high research value for the study of Picasso's creative art. It is generally estimated that public museums will be willing to pay a high price for them.
"Well, except for these four paintings. There are about 10 of them worth about 20 million or 30 million dollars, and five of them are about 100 million dollars. There are also nine paintings that cost about seventy or eighty million dollars, well, young man, if you sell these things for money, you will definitely get rich overnight. John Lampard's eyes were full of frenzy and he was thrilled because the things were better than he had ever imagined, and that was a real shock to him.
He is now fully authenticated, not only to verify the authenticity of these twenty-eight paintings. And the approximate estimate of the painting has been determined, although such an estimate will certainly be a little different, but with John Lampard's understanding of Picasso's oil paintings, as well as his understanding of the market, it should basically not be a big problem, even if there are discrepancies, it is almost the same.
"Young man, we Britons are all about going straight, and I'm not going to talk nonsense. Now that we have confirmed that these 28 oil paintings are genuine, we can now talk about how to exchange them, young man, you can list the Chinese cultural relics you need, and I will discuss it with the other staff when I go back with the list. And then I'll reply to you......"
Amer Sloan felt as if he were living in a dream, and he believed that if he had these twenty-eight paintings by Picasso. Then the fame of the British Museum will further suppress the Louvre in Paris, and the rest of the world's museums. These 28 oil paintings could have been dedicated to a Picasso gallery. I believe that it will definitely attract people from all over the world who like Picasso paintings to enjoy it.
He wanted to exchange, very much, and could even say that he couldn't wait.
However, he was in a hurry, but Zhang Tianyuan was not so anxious, because Zhang Tianyuan already had a lot of "spare tires", and there was no need to choose the British Museum, he could trade with the Brotherhood, and he could even wait until he went to Paris to contact the Louvre, the Guimet Museum, and so on.
So Zhang Tianyuan is very calm, and he wants to continue to pull this matter to his advantage.
"Forgive me, Sir Amer, for I would not have made a decision without having seen the tens of thousands of works in the British Museum. As the museum with the largest collection and the most complete variety in the world today, the Chinese collection in the British Museum is also the most exquisite, to tell you the truth, I went to the British Museum yesterday, but because I wanted to see the "Female Historian", I was kicked out by your security guards, you can't even meet my request, right?"
Zhang Tianyuan felt that since Amer Sloan was a straightforward person, he didn't have to beat around the bush, and it was not interesting to talk too much.
"Yes, Sir Amer, you have seen these twenty-eight paintings, but we have not yet seen the really good collection of your house. Liu Mengxun said on the side.
"Sir Amer, if you have known that I want to exchange these Picasso paintings, you should know that I have made an agreement with Sir Helis to make a deal when I arrive in Paris. The Brotherhood's collection is not necessarily smaller than that of the British Museum, especially in terms of Chinese antiquities. It's very easy to get these Picasso paintings, you just have to come up with something that satisfies me. "Zhang Tianyuan is already using Helis, whatever, anyway, that's how it is, there's nothing wrong with using Hellis to raise the price.
"What do you mean by this, it seems that you have to exchange not because of the value of the collection, but purely because of your subjective will?"
"Yes, that's what it means, I believe in my vision, and I trust my judgment even more. ”
"Well, then, I'll arrange for you to go and see the collections. Speaking of this, Amer bowed his head and muttered, "I don't know what those things have rotted into." ”
"What did you just say?"
"Oh, I didn't say anything, how about it, if you have time, you can come with me to the British Museum later, and this time I will show you the best collections, and you will definitely be satisfied." Amer Sloan said with a smile.
"That's great, but Sir Amer knows that your collection is so great that I might not be able to finish it if I went to see it, so I still hope that you will give me a detailed list so that I can see it, so that I can go there with a purpose. "Zhang Tianyuan's request is actually quite excessive, generally speaking, a museum's catalog, this cannot be leaked, especially in the British Museum, there are many things that can't even be known to the outside world, how can it be possible to hand over the catalog to Zhang Tianyuan.
But even so, Amer Sloan reluctantly agreed, only partially: "I will give you a catalogue of 20,000 items at most, and I'm sorry for the rest, although I really want to trade with you, but there are some things that you really can't leave a number of, you can go and see them, but we can't give you a catalogue." ”
This is already the bottom line of Amer Sloan, he promised to give a catalogue of 20,000 pieces, and the rest is not ready to give, but Zhang Tianyuan can see it.
If it had been someone else, he would never have given this catalog, but now for 28 Picasso's paintings, Amer is also fighting.
"Well, since Sir Amer is so simple, I won't be too strong, and the catalogue of 20,000 pieces will be 20,000 pieces. Zhang Tianyuan thought about it, even if it was only a catalog of 20,000 pieces, it would be enough for him to see, besides, in order to exchange things with him, this Amer would definitely try his best to select good things and list them, and it would be impossible for him to exchange all the seventy or eighty thousand things back anyway, with these high-quality catalogs, he was actually very satisfied.
"Okay, Mr. Zhang is really fast-talking, happy, well, it's not too early to see the time, can we have lunch together?"
At this time, Amer had already changed his name to Zhang Tianyuan, and the name of "young man" before was changed to "sir", which is obviously because there is a demand for talent.
"I'm really sorry Sir Amer, I still have some things to be busy with, if I can, how about I invite Sir to dinner after the deal is over?" Zhang Tianyuan didn't give Amer face, but once a person is familiar, it won't be good for the lion to open his mouth, so before the transaction, it's better to have a little bit.
"I said, Amer, you still have time to invite someone to dinner, hurry back and prepare the catalog. Others don't know, but I do, your museums have never taken those Chinese stability seriously, and there must be many of them who haven't even registered, really. John Lampard grumbled.
"Hehe, then I'll go first. Amer Sloan left in embarrassment, more like an escape.
In fact, John is right, perhaps many things are priceless in the eyes of the Chinese, and valuable things in the eyes of Zhang Tianyuan, but in the eyes of these foreign devils, they are some chicken ribs.
It's a pity to discard the tasteless food.
So they haven't paid much attention to it, this time someone wants to exchange Picasso's oil paintings, Amer is too late to be happy, such chicken ribs in exchange for a real treasure, he just waits to laugh.
To be honest, the things in the museum's Chinese exhibition hall are probably less than one-fiftieth of the total number of collections.
And, as John said, a lot of things are not even registered, and even if they are lost, no one will know about them. This has happened before, there are staff who manage the warehouse almost every day to go home with one or two things, and then an accident was bumped into, the museum only found out, to the staff of this staff's house, found that there were as many as hundreds of porcelain, calligraphy and paintings and other things.
Fortunately, this staff member only used it to decorate the house, not to sell it, otherwise, it would be impossible to find these things.
So the catalog of 20,000 things, it is estimated that Amer Sloan will have to ask the staff to work overtime to sort it out after he returns, and he really shouldn't just think about eating.
"Sir Amell, don't be in a hurry, when are we going to the museum?" Zhang Tianyuan hurriedly asked when he saw Amer turn to leave.
"Well, I'll call you when the catalog is ready, and I have your business card here, so don't worry. Amer got Zhang Tianyuan's business card from Tom Maru.
"That's good. Seeing Amer Sloan leave, Zhang Tianyuan also stood up and said, "How about Mr. John, let's go out to eat, I invite you, I really have to work hard for you today." (To be continued......)