"Your grandfather's paintings have been of great help to me in my study of foreign painting art, but in fact, I can't say which one is good or which one is bad. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info I thought, in this case, I'll just take a stack and pay you 20,000 euros, do you think that's okay? ”

Xi Qing thought about it for a while and gave Joseph's answer, he didn't want to count it according to the sheet, otherwise when he checked it, maybe Joseph would find out that Picasso's sketches were completely different from the old Joseph's.

After hearing Xi Qing's offer, Joseph stood there and pondered for a while, which obviously meant that Xi Qing was only studying foreign oil paintings.

Sincerely, he didn't look at them one by one, and if he did, he might have turned around and left.

Thinking of this, Joseph raised his head and said: "20,000 euros, Mr. Xi, you must know that these are my grandfather's works, and every sketch is like my grandfather's child, and the price is indeed not very good......

Joseph agrees with this approach, but does not agree with the price.

Xi Qing knew very well that this was just a means of bargaining for Joseph.

In order to cut through the mess quickly, Xi Qing continued, "Okay, for 30,000 euros, I will buy you 100 sketches, Mr. Joseph, you must know that if your grandfather was not a friend of Picasso, I would not pay this price, in fact, I paid this for these paintings of his, you should understand......"

Xi Qing said slowly, and showed an attitude that you don't sell me and leave immediately.

Where else can Joseph say anything, he said again and again, "Well, I think 30,000 euros is in line with my grandfather's worth, Mr. Xi, you can choose ......"

Joseph also saw that 30,000 euros should be Xi Qing's reserve price, if he continued to talk about it, maybe it would be a bamboo basket today, so he nodded very happily and agreed.

The first price of his intern was not low, 20,000 euros, which was enough to buy an oil painting by a rising star in Paris, but adhering to the habit of doing business, Joseph casually lowered the price.

After hearing Joseph's words, Xi Qing was secretly happy in his heart, but on the surface, he was silent, and checked the sketches in the box, seemingly taking out one by one at random, but in fact, he hid all the more than 30 sketches of Picasso.

The sketches in these boxes are basically the same sketch paper, and they are all 8 and 4 open, unless you look carefully one by one, you can't see any difference from the outside.

Xi Qing is not afraid of being seen by him.

Finally, Xi Qing patted the stack of drawings in his left hand vigorously, looked at Joseph and asked, "A total of 100, Mr. Joseph, do you want to check them?" ”

When he asked this, Xi Qing's heart was also raised, if Joseph really looked at it one by one, he would definitely see the clues, he bet that Joseph had seen these sketches before and would not check them again.

Sure enough, Joseph was also in a hurry to get the money, and he was even more afraid that Xi Qing would regret it after reading the manuscript.

"Oh, no need, Mr. Xi, you are so refreshing, I won't be verbose. Don't know how you pay? Is it a credit card or cash? ”

As Xi Qing thought, the sketches and oil paintings in these boxes were all sorted out by Joseph himself, since they had been sold, of course Joseph didn't bother to check them again, and now he was most concerned about how to get the 30,000 euros that belonged to him?

Looking at the thick stack of sketches in his hand, Xi Qingqiang suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "Swipe the card, let's go back to your store?" ”

Joseph shrugged his shoulders when he heard this, and said, "There is no way, then I can only go back to the store, I will find something to put these sketches for you first......"

While speaking, Joseph found a canvas bag for a drawing board from the corner of the wall and handed it to Xi Qing, who carefully put the sketch in, closed the zipper, and carried the bag to his shoulder.

"Shall we go, then?"

Xi Qing followed behind Joseph, and the morning music blossomed.

"Tao Xiaoman, I'm sorry to keep you waiting so long......"

After coming out of the small room in the basement, Xi Qing took Tao Xiaoman's hand with some guilt, originally she was shopping with her today, but who knew that in the end it would become her own Taobao journey.

"Say what? I'm so happy to be with you, what's the matter, did you find something you like......"

Tao Xiaoman pretended to be embarrassed and twisted around Xi Qing's waist, but then saw the drawing board bag behind him, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"That's it."

"What's in there? How much did it cost? ”

Tao Xiaoman was reading a book introducing European classical jewelry just now, and he hadn't paid attention to the transaction between Xi Qing and Joseph, so he asked such a question.

"It's a sketch of Mr. Joseph's grandfather, which has been of great help to me in my study of European art, it didn't cost much, Mr. Joseph is still very friendly, I'll show you these things when I go back......"

Xi Qing glanced at Joseph who was walking in front, and explained to Tao Xiaoman in Chinese vaguely, he didn't dare to say it too thoroughly, who knows if Joseph will listen to Chinese?

Tao Xiaoman glanced at Xi Qing a little strangely, she knew Xi Qing very well, if there was no benefit, Xi Qing would not make a move easily, presumably those sketches were a little weird.

"Okay."

After returning to Joseph's handicraft shop, Xi Qing took out his card, swiped 30,000 euros, and then refused Joseph's request to let him see what he liked again, and left this quiet street directly with Tao Xiaoman.

"Haha, get rich!!"

As soon as he entered the hotel room, Xi Qing quickly closed the door, hugged Tao Xiaoman by the waist, and kissed Tao Xiaoman's red lips excitedly.

"You, what's wrong...... Hmm, tell me, what the hell is so exciting? ”

Tao Xiaoman was a little out of breath by Xi Qing's kiss, and finally pushed Xi Qing away, and asked a little inexplicably, didn't you just buy a few sketches and a bronze mirror? As for being so happy?

"Then you calm down first and make sure you won't be frightened by my words?"

"No, hurry up, what's going on?" Tao Xiaoman is looking forward to it even more.

Xi Qing put Tao Xiaoman down, and then said, "Hehe, today we also came to a foreign country to be a robber!" ”

"You are happy, as if the drawing was Van Gogh?"

Tao Xiaoman glanced at Xi Qing and disagreed.

"Haha, Van Gogh didn't, but he did have Picasso's ......"

Xi Qing said and picked up the canvas bag that had just been thrown on the ground.

Tao Xiaoman really didn't feel anything at first, but after seeing Xi Qing go to bed with a canvas bag, he couldn't help but be curious in his heart and slowly approached.

Xi Qing walked to the sofa with the bag and placed the thick stack of sketches on the glass coffee table in front of the sofa.

"This one is Picasso's, this one is not ......"

Xi Qing pulled out a pair of white gloves for identifying cultural relics from his suitcase and began to sort out Picasso's sketches, which was an unusually simple job for him.

"Phew, did you see clearly, rascal."

Suddenly, Tao Xiaoman, who was sitting next to Xi Qing, saw a sketch, took a sip, and Xi Qing, who listened to it, was inexplicable, turned his face to look at the painting in his hand, and couldn't help laughing.

"Tao Xiaoman, you have also stayed abroad, and you even resist this?"

Xi Qing laughed and joked about Tao Xiaoman, this sketch is a full portrait of a woman, the plump **** slender waist, the mysterious dark triangle, all of which are presented on the painting by the author in detail, and even the facial expressions are clearly visible.

"It's not resistance, but Picasso is a big scoundrel, you can't learn from him......"

Tao Xiaoman spent several years in London and Paris, how could he not know that Picasso was himself? She knows even more than Xi Qing.

Picasso was famous for painting women.

"Honey, this is art, don't you let me see this? Okay, then I'll put this one away......"

Seeing Tao Xiaoman's resolute attitude, Xi Qing dispelled the idea of comparing the differences between Chinese and foreign women.

The reason why Tao Xiaoman has a deep grudge against Picasso is because for Picasso, women are just the victims of his artistic altar and the source of his artistic creation, which Tao Xiaoman cannot accept.

There is no doubt that Picasso was a true genius, and the 20th century was the century that belonged to Picasso, who came from Spain to Paris, then the art capital of the world, at the beginning of this changeable century, to begin his life's journey of discovery of brilliant art.

In the 20th century, no artist was as versatile as Picasso. Picasso's fame is not only due to his early fame and masterpieces such as "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and "Guernica", but also because of his abundant creativity and colorful life, Picasso left behind a large number of multi-faceted works of art, which are incomparable to others.

Picasso has completed about 60,000 to 80,000 works, including sculptures, pottery, prints, stage costumes and other modeling expressions in addition to paintings and drawings.

After Picasso's death in 1973, the world's major museums continued to launch retrospectives about him in a variety of different ways, and the topic of Picasso was constant, often with new arguments, as if he were still alive.

But Picasso was a man who always caused controversy, except for his extraordinary talent that made people fall in love and impress. He painted many paintings for his wives, lovers, and children, but his relatives had mixed reviews of the gifted painter.

Picasso, who died in 1973 at the age of 92, was the first to be befriended by people who rushed to befriend, and a quarter of a century after his death, the world is still arguing over his story and fame.

Picasso's achievements in painting were the pinnacle, but his family affairs were a mess.

His tragic story is well known, Picasso's widow Jacqueline committed suicide, as did one of his lovers, Marie, who gave birth to his daughter Maya, and his grandson Pabrido who also committed suicide after Jacqueline kicked him out of his grandfather's funeral.

It can be seen what this family is like.

And Pabrido's sister Marina wrote some memoirs a few years ago revealing her miserable teenage years and blaming Picasso for everything.

Frances was the only woman in Picasso's life to abandon him, and she left Picasso in 1953 with her children.

Later, she collaborated with an art critic on My Life with Picasso, a book that was both bold and detailed, covering almost everything, even the artist's sexual adventures, which caused an uproar and in retaliation, Picasso refused to see her children.

Women are all emotional, and Tao Xiaoman has read a book similar to a biography, so from a woman's point of view, she is extremely disgusted by Picasso's character of seeing one and loving another. He treats women as playthings, which in itself is unfair to women, and his so-called creation is not at the expense of these women.

"By the way, Xi Qing, how can you be sure that these paintings are Picasso's?"

Tao Xiaoman suddenly remembered this question, and it seemed that Xi Qing did not understand the appreciation of these paintings very well.

"What's this, you think that old Joseph can paint such a work?"

Xi Qing smiled and shook his head, picked out a few works of Joseph Sr. and Picasso's works and put them together, and then took out two paintings with Picasso's signature.

"Xi Qing, your luck is really good, right?"

Looking at the more than 30 black and white sketches on the table, Tao Xiaoman really couldn't find any words to describe Xi Qing's magic, she followed the whole process of the incident, I'm afraid no one would have thought that a small shopkeeper's home would leave Picasso's real handiwork.

In these years, not to mention Tao Xiaoman, who has studied and worked in Britain and France, is a small number of ordinary people in China, and it is estimated that he has also heard of Picasso's name, after all, the 4 oil paintings with a total value of more than billions of RMB are too shocking.

"Tao Xiaoman, how much do you think these sketches are worth?"

Xi Qing divided the sketches on the coffee table into categories, which can be divided into three types, one is the character sketches, there are six in total, all of them are young women without clothes, and the paintings are all beautiful.

Xi Qing couldn't figure it out, why did Picasso give his woman's sketch portrait to Joseph Sr.? Could it be that even a woman can share a good relationship between the two?

However, on this point, Xi Qing can't verify it, maybe it was stolen by old Joseph.

The second type of sketch is children, Xi Qing knows that Picasso is a person who likes children very much, so many of his works are children frolicking in the streets and alleys, there are more sketches in this category, there are 18 paintings, and a total of six boys are painted.

There is also a category of sketches that are still objects, from apples to vases, from room furniture to windows and doors, there are a total of eight such works, and Xi Qing also counted them, there are thirty-two pairs in total.

All the sketches are black and white, the colors are dark and layered, and Picasso uses extremely simple strokes to sketch out pictures that make people crazy. (To be continued.) )