Chapter 70: New Speculation
Jiang Hua drove the car and just stopped in front of Baorong Zhai, when two people rushed out next to him, startling him.
"Grandma's!"
After seeing who it was, Jiang Hua was really angry and funny, "What are you two doing here?"
It was Deng Mingshi and Zhao Tie who rushed out of the darkness.
Deng Mingshi didn't answer, and looked straight into the car.
"Bang!"
Jiang Hua closed the car door and threw the key to Zhao Tie, "Look at anything, I'm alone." Hey, by the way, didn't you say that you made an appointment with Niu to sing K or something? Why are you still here?"
Deng Mingshi saw clearly that there was indeed no one in the carβto be precise, he didn't see Miao Xue inside, and said disappointedly, "I thought you had succeeded." β
Jiang Hua simply ignored Deng Mingshi, opened the door of Baorong Zhai and walked in.
"Hey, hey, hey. β
Deng Mingshi laughed, he knew that what he said just now was really unreasonable, how could a person like Miao Xue follow Jiang Hua back to Baorong Zhai? Even if the sun came out of the west, such a thing could not happen.
"Brother, I'm ...... It's a ...... of hope."
Jiang Hua put the white iron kettle filled with water on the stove, and glared at Deng Mingshi angrily, "Hope? β
Zhao Tie sat on the sofa and said with a smile, "I just said that this thing is impossible, Deng Mingshi has to drag me to wait here." β
"Jiang Hua, in order to wait for your news, I even gave up singing K with Niu. β
Deng Mingshi waved his right hand, "Brother does my part, there is nothing to say." β
Jiang Hua raised his middle finger at Deng Mingshi with contempt, "Don't rely on me, it's clear that the girl let you plane, I don't know what kind of virtue you are?"
"This ...... Come on, don't talk about me, how are you and Miao Xue doing?"
Deng Mingshi's old face turned red, and he quickly changed the topic, "To what extent?"
"How far has it progressed?"
Jiang Hua saw that the water had boiled and began to make tea, "Very good, we later went back to the Fengyun Club to identify the "Female History Zhentu". β
"Ah? Jiang Hua, could it be that "The Female History of Zhentu" is really fake?"
As soon as Zhao Tie heard this, he immediately interjected, and he couldn't care about gossip at this time.
"I think it's fake. β
Jiang Hua didn't say anything about the fact that Gu Bo and Zhou Fu were also present, and I don't know how to deal with the matter of "The Female Historian" in the end, and this is also related to the reputation of the two old people, so it's better not to talk too much.
"This ...... Isn't that devil a big trap?"
Deng Mingshi suddenly remembered that Kikujiro Takashima had spent $400 million, and couldn't help but widen his eyes suddenly.
"Hehehe. β
Jiang Hua smiled and didn't say much, Miao Xue was going to tell Takashima Kikujiro the truth, although she felt that Takashima Kikujiro would definitely choose to paint, but the final result had not yet come out, and it was still unknown whether it would really be able to trap Takashima Kikujiro.
In fact, he didn't think it was necessary to make this matter so clear to Takashima Kikujiro, the antique trade tested his eyesight, and if he bought a fake, he might break his teeth and swallow it in his mouth, not to mention that this time it was a devil like Takashima Kikujiro.
However, Jiang Hua did not tell Miao Xue about this, she is the behind-the-scenes boss of the Fengyun Club, and the auction of the club has its own operating principles, and the things that need to be considered are different from herself.
It wasn't early, Zhao Tie and Deng Mingshi drank tea and left together.
Jiang Hua locked the door of the store and did not go to sleep, but re-boiled the water and changed the tea leaves.
"Whew!"
Taking a big sip of the freshly brewed strong tea, Jiang Hua let out a long breath and lifted his spirits.
Previously, I heard Deng Mingshi say that the auction was "The Female Historian", and I knew that it was not collected by other museums like "The Thirteen Journeys of the Orchid Pavilion" - this is not the first time this has happened, and he did not have the shock at the beginning.
However, Jiang Hua did not plan to take pictures of "The Female Historian" at any cost, not because he did not have so much money, but because he felt that "The Female Historian" was not Gu Kaizhi's painting.
It is not surprising that "The Female Historian" is fake, and it has already been proposed in the world before the crossing.
The Female Historian is a figure painting, but it has a small landscape painting. The earliest development of Chinese painting was figure painting, and the figure painting of the Jin Dynasty in which Gu Kaizhi lived was already very mature, but landscape painting only appeared after the Six Dynasties, that is, after the Jin Dynasty.
According to archaeology, the painting in the brick sculpture "Salt Well" unearthed in the ancient tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty cannot unify the background of the landscape with the activities of the figures, the proportion of the landscape and the figures is not harmonious, and the mountains are also represented by a single line. At the same time, the mural of the tomb unearthed from the No. 5 tomb of Dingjiazha in Jiuquan, Gansu Province (the Northern Liang period of the Sixteen Kingdoms), the proportion of the scenery is the same, but people have already appeared three-dimensional when painting the mountain.
The only landscape painting in "The Female History of Zhentu" is a cone-shaped mountain, there is a tiger on the mountain, the tiger is almost as big as the mountain, from the perspective of maturity, it is more mature than the time of Beiliang, so it can be concluded that "The Female History of Zhentu" is a work after Beiliang, and Gu Kaizhi, who lived in the Eastern Jin Dynasty before Beiliang, naturally could not draw such a painting.
The painting is inscribed with the words "Gu Kaizhi's painting", but it is just that later generations pretend to be the name of the great painter Gu Kaizhi, and such a thing is not uncommon in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy.
Jiang Hua agrees with this view, which has an archaeological basis and can withstand scrutiny. I went to Fengyun Club just to make sure that the auction painting was the same as the one I saw in my previous life, and I didn't plan to buy it. A painting that pretends to use Gu Kaizhi's name, no matter how high the artistic level is, it is still not his painting, is it?
What Jiang Hua didn't expect was that what he saw in Fengyun Club was a completely different "Female History Atlas" from his memory.
It turned out that the tiger and the cone-shaped mountain, which were used as a breakthrough in identification, were painted in a very immature way before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, the mountain was represented by very simple lines.
What does this mean? This means that it is very likely that in the current world, there is indeed a "Female History Atlas" painted by Gu Kaizhi!
The part of the heart painting of the "Female Historian" auctioned by the Fengyun Club uses the method of focus perspective, which must be problematic. This is just a case where the painter is not paying attention, or he is a person who has received a very strict education in Western painting, and instinctively uses the method of focus perspective to draw the "Female Historian" - one thing is certain, that is, the person who painted must have been based on a certain painting, and this is probably the original work.
"Could it be that this person got a part of the "Female History Atlas", that is, the part with the seal and inscription, but the part of the painting heart fell into the hands of others, and this person saw the content of the character painting the heart, so he decided to fake such a painting?"
Jiang Hua gently patted his thigh.
The "Female History Atlas" auctioned by the Fengyun Club is complete, and the silk used in the painting has no traces of cutting and repairing, so it is impossible to lack the heart of the painting, and the only way to forge it is to take the silk and press it tightly with steam fumigation, and "print" the seal and inscription on other silk and then directly paint the heart of the painting.
It is very likely that from this person, who can be judged to be a forgery, will not get a complete "Female Historian".
In the world before traveling, the British Imperial Museum cut it into several sections after obtaining the "Female Historian", separating the heart of the painting from the seals and inscriptions of previous collectors, so it is not surprising to say that the same situation in the current world has caused different parts to fall into different hands.
"Looks like we'll have to find a way to inquire about this. β
Jiang Hua didn't care about "The Female History Atlas" before because it was not painted by Gu Kaizhi, but now there are signs that there is very likely to be a genuine copy of Gu Kaizhi's painting "The Female History Atlas" in this world, how can it be treated indifferently?