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Chapter 677: Picasso's Portrait of Stein

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In the next 12 auctions, none of the lots with a reserve price of more than 100,000 euros disappointed Liu Donghaosheng, of course, he didn't know that the reason why this was the case was mainly because of his previous large-scale purchases.

Van Gaal, who has already scraped together 100 million euros in cash, is reluctant to auction off his family's 300-year-old collection, so there will be no more fine antiques except for the first few pieces and the finale he prepared later to give an account to the people who came today.

"The official kilns of the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, the official kilns of the Ming Dynasty, the blue and white of the Yuan Dynasty, the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, and 239 ancient paintings before the Yuan Dynasty, including the Song Dynasty's "Shufu Yuan Turtle", the Ming Dynasty's "Tiangong Kaiwu", and 12 volumes of "Yongle Canon" and other rare books, as well as 217 bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and many other valuable works of art from the Chinese dynasties cannot be recovered!" Liu Dong sighed in his heart.

However, while Liu Dong's heart was full of regrets, the faces of Kenji Tanaka and Ichiro Tanaka also became gloomy.

"Uncle, it seems that what we wanted, Van Gaal didn't take ≧↑ to the auction!" Ichiro Tanaka said in a low voice.

After nodding silently, Kenji Tanaka said in a condensed voice: "It seems that the organization's intelligence has made a mistake this time!"

"Is that the second plan activated?" said Ichiro Tanaka's tone with obvious urgency.

Kenji Tanaka naturally understood what his nephew was thinking, and it was nothing more than taking the opportunity to take revenge, but he didn't say anything about it. As long as it's okay to act. It doesn't hurt for him to vent. This will also be good for his future growth.

"As soon as the auction is over, you go and call, remember, don't be found out!" nodded and ordered Tanaka in a low voice.

"Yes, uncle, I see!"

After suppressing the extreme joy in his heart, Ichiro Tanaka couldn't help but turn his head to look at Liu Dong, who was not far away, and had made him make a fool of himself repeatedly. The eyes revealed a thick cruelty and ruthlessness, extremely hideous.

Since the breakthrough of internal strength again, Liu Dong's five senses have become much sharper, and he always has an inexplicable premonition of threats, when Ichiro Tanaka's eyes focused on him, Liu Dong's heart moved, turned his head, and happened to see the strangeness in Ichiro Tanaka's eyes.

Seeing Liu Dong find out, although Ichiro Tanaka was surprised in his heart, he was not afraid. Instead, he said to Liu Dong with a murderous face: "You're finished!"

From the other party's mouth, Liu Dong quickly understood the meaning. While frowning, my heart seemed to be suppressed by something, and I always felt as if something bad would happen next.

However, before Liu Dong could think about it, the finale lot prepared by Van Gaal finally appeared, and while his heart was shocked, Liu Dong had to temporarily put aside his unfounded worries and return his attention to the auction.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the final lot of this auction is the masterpiece Stein by Pablo Ruiz Picasso, the greatest painter of the twentieth century!"

As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became warm.

Picasso's greatness needs no need to be overstated, he will always be the most creative and far-reaching artist in the contemporary West, the greatest artistic genius of the 20th century, unlike Vincent van Gogh, who lived a life of poverty, Picasso's life was so brilliant that he was the first painter ever to live to see his work in the Louvre.

Picasso was also a prolific painter. According to statistics, his works totaled nearly 37,000 pieces, including: 1,885 oil paintings, 7,089 drawings, 20,000 prints, and 6,121 lithographs. With 40% of the vote, he was elected to the top of the ten greatest painters of the 20th century. Regarding the work, Picasso said: "I have my blood in each of my paintings, and this is the meaning of my paintings." "Picasso is home to four of the world's top 10 most expensive paintings.

The 100 cm long and 81 cm wide oil on canvas painting presented by the projector is a springboard for Picasso to leap from the 'Rosé Period' to the 'Cubist Period', that is, influenced by primitive art, but also paying attention to the basic shapes of geometry.

It is one of Picasso's most outstanding masterpieces!

Even Liu Dong didn't expect that Van Gaal would be willing to take out this painting in the end.

In fact, why would Van Gaal be willing to put it up for auction?

It's just that there are so few fine works in the auction today, and he always has to give an explanation to these people who were invited to participate in the auction, and he has not a single Picasso work in his hand, so after analyzing the Van Gaal family's thousands of oil paintings, Van Gaal finally decided to take out this Picasso's masterpiece "Stein Portrait".

"I didn't expect this kind of surprise in the end, it seems that this time it is not in vain!"

Eskenazi, who had been a little drowsy just now, also became excited at this moment, and seeing the way he was gearing up, he was obviously ready to participate in the competition for this Picasso work.

"I didn't expect to see Picasso's works here!" Mei Xue was also pleasantly surprised.

"What's the matter, Xiaodong?" Turning her head and noticing Liu Dong's frowning face, Mei Xue hurriedly said.

"I'm wondering how much it will cost to buy this famous Picasso painting!" Liu Dong said.

And after he finished speaking, Mei Xue's small mouth immediately turned into an 'O' shape!

No matter how surprised Mei Xue was, Liu Dong really planned to buy this famous Picasso painting at this moment, but he also knew that the funds in his card were still far from eating this famous painting.

"It seems that I have to borrow some from you this time, but you can rest assured, I won't pay it back!" Looking at Uncle Tanaka's uncle and nephew, who were also excited, Liu Dong's heart moved, and after 'looking' at the two cash checks from Dutch banks that suddenly appeared in the mustard seed space, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"A cash check for 50 million euros, plus the remaining 25 million euros in my card, should be almost enough!"

Thinking of this, Liu Dong immediately opened his mouth to join the competition for this Picasso famous painting "Portrait of Stein" with a reserve price of 25 million euros.

"40 million euros!"

Liu Dong's holding of the sign instantly increased the original auction price by 5 million euros, and at the same time, the surrounding buyers all looked at it, and their faces invariably showed surprise.

Even Eskenazi, who was sitting next to Liu Dong, was surprised by Liu Dong's almost inevitable momentum.

"Mr. Liu, I didn't expect you to be so interested in this painting?"

After a faint smile, Liu Dong said: "Of course, although Picasso is a European, he is indeed a master of art recognized by the whole world, and of course I am eager to collect his paintings!" After a pause, Liu Dong looked at the other party and continued, "Why don't you be polite to me, old man, and give this painting to me, a junior?"

"Haha, this is not good, Picasso is not Chinese, not within the scope of our previous agreement!" After speaking, after glancing at Liu Dong, Eskenazi raised the bidding sign in his hand and said loudly, "4500 euros!"

Its momentum is not inferior to Liu Dong at all.

But after all, not everyone is such a careless bidder as the two, although they also like Picasso, but collecting is just a hobby, not a hobby, there is no need to add five or six million euros.

However, after the price reached the height of 45 million euros, there were not many people who continued to bid upwards!

"Mr. Tanaka won't get involved?"

What responded to Liu Dong was Ichiro Tanaka's angry snort and gloomy face, but Liu Dong didn't care, it was just the ridicule of the victor just now.

"50 million euros!"

Liu Dong instantly raised the original auction price by nearly 3 million euros!

"Wow, who is this young man, so rich?"

"This is simply not taking money, adding three or five million to the top, it's too generous!"

In this way, discussions in English, Chinese, Dutch and other languages were very loud in the wide living room, and the young Liu Dong instantly became the focus of everyone's discussion.

At this moment, in the face of Liu Dong's imperativeness, the pressure in Eskenazi's heart has become more and more intense, although he does have money, and he does want to collect this famous painting of Picasso, but he also has his own bottom line, if he exceeds this bottom line, he can't bear it.

After all, his money is not like Liu Dong, it is all earned by the old man himself with his own ability, and it is very distressing to spend it.

"51 million euros!" Eskenazi said after a moment's hesitation.

Although the money he got from Tanaka's uncle and nephew has been spent, and Liu Dong is also very distressed to spend his own money, but he also knows that the more he is at this time, the more he can't weaken his momentum, otherwise the hard work ahead will be in vain!

"55 million euros!" Liu Dong said without hesitation.

"56 million euros!" continued Eskenazi.

"It seems that this old man is quite tenacious!" Thinking of this, Liu Dong once again raised the No. 18 bidding board in his hand and said loudly: "60 million euros!"

Now everyone has been numbed by the nerves of the shock of the two consecutive large prices, so the entire auction hall is silent, and everyone is waiting for Eskenazi's bid.

Now this old man is also very conflicted, with his years of appraisal experience, he understands that this Picasso's "Portrait of Stein" has exceeded its market value, but any of Picasso's masterpieces is irreproducible, if this opportunity is missed today, maybe it will be impossible to have this painting until he dies, and it is precisely because of this understanding that Eskenazi is particularly difficult to make up his mind!

To be honest, Liu Dong is also very nervous now, he only has 75 million euros in his hand, if this old man continues to entangle, then he will not be able to hold on!

……………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)