Picasso was a genius painter and an art killer.

He first knocked everything to pieces, and then reintegrated them to give them what he called new life. No one in the 20th century has had such complete creative freedom as this great monster; Picasso was also a woman killer, who smashed their youth, beauty, and spirit to pieces, and then reintegrated them haphazardly and distortedly on the canvas.

Picasso created art, but also destroyed it. He destroys the woman in real life and creates a woman on the canvas who is still scattered. The only thing that has been achieved is Picasso and his own art.

This is Zhang Tianyuan's summary of Picasso after listening to Liu Mengxun's words, combined with some of his own feelings.

Some people say that there is only a thin line between a genius and an idiot, and the distance between a master and a madman is probably not far away.

Women are more emotional than men, Zhang Tianyuan is already so angry with Picasso, not to mention Liu Mengxun, so although Liu Mengxun also liked Western oil paintings when she was a child, she would never collect Picasso's paintings, and there were several times when she could even accept gifts from others, but in the end she directly refused.

She was not short of money, on the contrary, she was very disdainful of Picasso, so Picasso's paintings were as disgusting to her as poisonous snakes and filthy garbage.

Zhang Tianyuan had already stacked all the paintings together and put them back in the box, and he didn't want Liu Mengxun to look angry.

The so-called hatred of the house and Wu, he doesn't want Liu Mengxun to hate himself because of these broken paintings.

"By the way, husband, although there is Picasso's signature on it, it doesn't mean that it must be Picasso's authentic handwriting. You look at those fakes, they have the same handwriting. How the hell do you tell the difference?"

Liu Mengxun saw Zhang Tianyuan's cautious appearance, and also felt that he was a little too nervous. What I hate is Picasso, not Zhang Tianyuan, you can't be so harsh on your husband Zhang Tianyuan just because of Picasso. So she took the initiative to mention this topic, in fact, she did want to know the answer, because this matter did make her a little puzzled, he understood that Zhang Tianyuan was proficient in appraising antiques, but most of them were Chinese antiques, not Western antiques.

"That's your husband and I haven't encountered Western antiques before, in fact, I have a lot of research in this area. Besides, if you think about it, if these sketches were made by Lancelot's grandmother, would she have used them so well to protect them? ”

In fact, it is too easy to tell this kind of lie, and Zhang Tianyuan does have a certain amount of truth in what he said, Liu Mengxun will not get to the bottom of it because of a little flaw, she is a person who believes in Zhang Tianyuan very much.

"I don't like Picasso, but his paintings really fetch a lot of money at auction. This time you're pieed again, no. I guess it was hit by gold. ”

Liu Mengxun has always felt that her husband is very lucky, as if every time he goes out, there will be an unexpected harvest and go to Yancheng. He relied on gambling stones to earn back the great development of the HRE group; went to Burma, not only made a lot of money, but also discovered the treasure left by the Japanese; and went to Xinjiang. He discovered a jade mine that no one else had ever discovered, and as a result, he became the majority shareholder of the mine, and now he is in London, England. It was a stroke of luck that I got twenty-eight genuine paintings of Picasso because of a bunch of fakes that I thought were useless. I guess if I buy a lottery ticket, I can win the first prize in a row.

She didn't know about Zhang Tianyuan's three swords, if she knew about Yin Tianzi's three swords, she would probably be even more shocked.

But now this incident was enough to surprise him.

Although I am very reluctant to admit it, Picasso's fame is definitely resounding all over the world, not to mention France and Europe, even in China, this person's name is well known to many people who have read the book, and they all know that there is such a great painter who paints very "ugly", but is very valuable.

Of course, the so-called ugliness is just a kind of ridicule, because if you don't know how to appreciate it, it's also a helpless thing.

Liu Mengxun still remembers one thing.

Genevieve Labert, 24, was in his prime, but he promised Picasso, who was 70 years old, and Picasso once told a friend, "She saved my life."

And about a decade ago, Picasso's last little-known love was to sell in Paris 20 of Picasso's drawings that had been in his collection for half a century.

Selling so many Picasso paintings at one time is a major event in the art world.

Picasso's last lover, Genevieve Labert, was 79 years old when she was about '05, and these 20 sketches of Picasso, which she called "20 Love Letters", range from Geneviev's nude in bed to portraits of her in a bathing suit and wedding dress. Another Cubist painting depicts her and Picasso's lingering love, with the face of a young woman intertwined with that of her elderly lover. The Parisian auction house estimates that the paintings could eventually fetch £1.3 million.

Of course, the price of these paintings is not high, because they are only twenty sketches, and if the final touches and touch-ups are made, it is possible to increase their value even tenfold, or even a hundredfold.

It was this Picasso lover who angered Picasso at the age of seventeen because of a sentence that is similar to the fact that many people ridicule Picasso's paintings for having no appreciation value.

The young Genevieve boldly asked: "Mr. Picasso, young people don't understand your paintings very well. As soon as this remark came out, Picasso immediately became furious, and he retorted sternly: "What does that mean? When will you understand the language of painting? Do you understand the language of potato chips?"

In fact, you can see Picasso's character from this matter, but Liu Mengxun doesn't really want to evaluate it, anyway, this person is already a scumbag in her mind, she just told Zhang Tianyuan about the incident she encountered, hoping to give Zhang Tianyuan a reference.

"Twenty 1,300,000 pounds, a bit less, but it's normal, after all, it's just a sketch, not a polished painting, and all the paintings are basically for the girl alone, to be honest. It's a bit boring and it's normal for the price to be low. After Zhang Tianyuan listened to Liu Mengxun's words. After thinking about it in his heart, he said.

"Then how much do you think these twenty-eight sketches are worth?" asked Liu Mengxun.

Zhang Tianyuan didn't go through the box. He had just sorted all the twenty-eight paintings in his mind. Basically, 20 of the 28 paintings are portraits of women, but there are only five portraits of Lancelot's grandmother, and the rest are of other women.

The portraits of these women are also distinctive, some are very beautiful, some are naked, and some are obviously extremely ugly. is very similar to the "Nude Woman in Makeup", and it is probably a woman that Picasso hates.

Of the remaining eight paintings, four of them depict life, with children running, a dinner party, a nap in the living room, and a rest at the station.

However, without exception, these paintings all adopt the style of cubism, not oil paintings in the ordinary sense, and are completely different from traditional paintings.

The remaining four paintings are honest, and Zhang Tianyuan didn't know what Picasso was painting at first. It wasn't until he used his word appreciation to appreciate them that he realized that these four paintings were actually Picasso's depictions of his own nightmares.

After reading these four paintings, Zhang Tianyuan was in a cold sweat on his forehead, this kind of cubist painting style. The more you look at it, the more terrifying it becomes, and it even gives people the feeling that something in the painting is about to jump out.

That's a demon?

Is it the devil?

Is it a vampire?

Or something else?

Zhang Tianyuan didn't know. It's as if it had been painted and then smashed. It's like they're back together, and it's weird.

That's why he didn't like Picasso's paintings. Many of other people's paintings will make people feel more comfortable the more they look at them, but Picasso's paintings have many paintings that make people feel more uncomfortable the more they look at them, although he may want this effect, but Zhang Tianyuan just can't stand it.

These paintings have not been polished, they look a little disorganized, it is already so, if they are polished and repaired in the later stage, then it can be said that these four paintings can definitely make people who see him have nightmares at night, this is really the ultimate in art, but this kind of thing is a bit uncomfortable.

Zhang Tianyuan has a relatively little understanding of Picasso's paintings, and what he knows is the auction prices of several of Picasso's more famous paintings, as well as the auction price of 1.3 million yuan for the 20 sketches that Liu Mengxun just mentioned.

Of course, it doesn't matter if those fakes are set, he doesn't feel distressed about the set level, and if the set is low, many people will probably feel that they have missed it, and if it is high, it is estimated that some people will think that it is genuine.

He was indifferent to the fakes, but these twenty-eight works were genuine, and he had to be cautious and careful, and he had to set a reasonable price, otherwise, he would be so sorry for the good fortune God had given him.

But the problem is that he really doesn't understand this, and the valuation of the word appreciation is basically unreliable, after all, there are many factors in reality that will affect the valuation of a painting.

"Well, there is no way, I don't know how much these 28 paintings will sell for, to be honest, before I came to England, I never thought that I would own Picasso's paintings, because I couldn't read his paintings, I really couldn't appreciate his paintings. Zhang Tianyuan smiled bitterly.

"Then I can't help it, although I am very familiar with Picasso, but I really don't know how much his paintings are valued, Picasso left too many paintings, it is impossible to value every one, so this is difficult to estimate, and you said that you want to turn these semi-finished products into finished products, then it is even more impossible to estimate. Liu Mengxun also shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"Don't worry about this for now, Mengmeng, you can rest early, I'll finish these paintings, you don't have to wait for me." Zhang Tianyuan thought about it, even if he wanted to invite experts to appraise it, it would have to be 28 paintings after completion, not 28 semi-finished works, so this was a top priority.

"Well, don't be too tired. Liu Mengxun was indeed a little tired from being tossed by Zhang Tianyuan just now, and she didn't want to disturb her husband's work, so she nodded very obediently and shrank into bed to sleep.

Zhang Tianyuan kissed Liu Mengxun's forehead, then turned off the light in the room and walked out.

In fact, Zhang Tianyuan felt that he owed Liu Mengxun a lot, he clearly said that he wanted to trust each other, but he had such a huge secret that he couldn't tell, he was very grateful to Liu Mengxun for his understanding, so he became more and more kind to Liu Mengxun. (To be continued......)