"You little girl sneaking around to play again?"

Wu Tianyuan looked at Anne who suddenly appeared amusedly, and asked, "Does your father know?" ”

"Hmph, you want to pay the bill?" Anne frowned and said dissatisfied: "I'm an adult, where to go is my freedom, my father can't control me!" ”

Wu Tianyuan called Liu Meizi, the two girls are easy to communicate, and they have been accompanying Anne around for the past few days, and they can be regarded as a companion.

"This is your museum? It's domineering! ”

Anne followed Liu Meizi around, and said sternly: "I have been to many private museums, and you are considered the first-rate, although there are not many of them, but each one is superb. I heard that you have only been established for less than a year? No wonder Hu Yan attaches so much importance to you! ”

Wu Tianyuan chatted while making tea: "I was in a hurry last time, I didn't have a good chat with you, we are friends, and your identity is still confidential?" ”

"I've never kept it a secret!" Anne sat down and said loudly, "You don't know, I'm from Geneva, Switzerland, and I have some Swedish royal blood." My father was Sir William, who ran a clock and a bank, and he had a bit of money. ”

Wu Tianyuan said secretly: "In Switzerland, it is still called a little money in the clock and bank? Is it good to be a millionaire with at least a few billions? ”

"I like oil painting collections, especially master works, I bought a few of your photos last time, and this time I came again at your invitation to see if you have any new paintings?"

Wu Tianyuan's heart moved, and he said tentatively: "The painting is there, but what treasure do you have?" Dollars alone won't do! ”

"What do you want?" When Anne heard that there was really a master painting, she excitedly said, "Anything will do!" I have a lot of porcelain and calligraphy and paintings, even if I want something else, I'll buy some for you. ”

"Is there any Yuan Qinghua? Or Yuan Dynasty calligraphy and painting? ”

"Yuan Dynasty?" Anne thought about it, folded her fingers and counted for a while: "There seems to be ** in the Yuan Qinghua family, and there are few calligraphy and paintings in the Yuan Dynasty, at most three or four." ”

As soon as Wu Tianyuan heard about the play, he took Anne to the treasury and took out another picture of Monet's water scenery and Picasso's two nudes, as for Van Gogh's sunflowers are unique, he also likes them very much, and stays in the museum to enjoy them.

"This ......"

Although Anne had been mentally prepared and knew that Wu Tianyuan must have a heavy weapon in his hand, she was still deeply shocked by the master's superlative.

"These three paintings are absolute masterpieces, the size is so big, it's better than my collection!"

Anne said excitedly: "You say a price!" I want them all! ”

Wu Tianyuan nodded and said: "According to the auction, these three paintings are at least 200 million US dollars, which is only a lot more, we are friends, and I don't want money, how about you exchange Yuan Qinghua for it?" ”

"No problem, you wait, let me ask how many there are at home?"

Anne hurriedly called the housekeeper and made sure that there were nine Yuan Qinghua in the end, and there was a character jar of three visits to the thatched house.

"Give it all to you, a total of almost 200 million US dollars, not enough for the next transaction to make up for you!"

Anne held the oil painting and didn't let go, Wu Tianyuan smiled: "You don't have to ask your father what he means? ”

"Ask what? His baby will be mine from now on! Besides, he also likes master oil paintings, and this time I have to thank me! ”

Wu Tianyuan agreed to exchange, this time it was a bit of a loss, but it didn't matter. Later, with Anne's connections, I had time to visit Sir William and look for opportunities to cooperate. Clocks and banks? Absolutely tall!

Two days later, ten Yuan Qinghua were transported to the museum, and after Wu Tianyuan absorbed the last energy, there was a loud noise in his ears, and finally opened the Yuan Dynasty, and his voice could be heard.

"Lao Ren, open up a special exhibition hall, put the sixteen pieces of Yuan Qinghua in your hand, and display the two character jars!"

Wu Tianyuan happily asked the staff to rearrange the exhibition hall, and there was another key point, Yuan Qinghua, absolutely domineering!

The largest collection in China should be Tianmin Building, where Ge Lao has more than 20 pieces, but there is no character jar. Now there are two pieces in the museum, and the others are all fine products, no worse than Tianmin Building.

"Your father is no longer one of the shareholders of Meiyintang?"

While eliminating the roast duck, Anne explained: "It turns out that there was a conflict a few years ago, and he has already transferred his shares to others, regardless of Mei Yintang. ”

"Tell me what's going on?"

Anne wiped her hands and said: "Meiyintang is very mysterious to the outside world, in fact, it is not a collection of one person, the founder is the Yuli brothers, and Qiu Yanzhi has also helped a lot." After hundreds of years of inheritance, there are now at least more than 2,000 pieces of porcelain from all over the ages. ”

"It is now managed by a professional art foundation, which auctions some and acquires some more every year to ensure the liquidity of the collection. My father was also one of the shareholders in his early years, but a few years ago he decided to quit because of a different philosophy. ”

Speaking of this, Anne suddenly became angry and said disdainfully: "It's all because of that Ullens!" Hmph, a big speculator covered in copper smell, using various connections to buy most of the shares of Meiyintang, and decided to hype up the brand after becoming a major shareholder. My father disagreed, Meiyintang is just a hall name, a private collection, not a sale! As a result, the two had different ideas, and in the end he angrily withdrew and left. ”

Wu Tianyuan finally knows the inside story of Meiyintang today, Ullens?

Mr. and Mrs. Ullens Baron Ullens ran the family business for more than 40 years before retiring from business in 2000 to pursue cultural activities with his wife. He currently serves on the board of directors of many museums and art centres such as the Kuman Oriental Art Museum and the Tate Gallery in the UK.

This year, in particular, they have been particularly cared for by art journalists. First of all, at the beginning of the year, the news that they had sent a batch of works by the British landscape painter Turner, worth tens of millions of pounds, to Christie's for auction shocked the tens of millions of pounds.

They have also built a major contemporary art museum in Beijing, the Ullens Art Center in the 798 Art District, which will open in November this year, which cannot help but make them a center of conversation, especially in today's boom in contemporary art collection in China.

His father fought in World War I, and after the war, he was sent to Beijing in 1921 as a diplomat for five years, traveling all over China. The turbulent market was filled with art, and like many diplomats, he occasionally bought his favorite Chinese antiques, a few of which he kept for his son. That was arguably Ullens's first contact with Chinese antiques. ”

"His mother was also a person interested in collecting, and she had traveled to Iran many times to inspect cultural relics and monuments, and every time she came back from Iran, she brought almost all kinds of porcelain and cultural relics, told her son the origin of each piece, and gave some cultural relics to Ullens as gifts."

Wu Tianyuan felt sick for a while, he said it nicely, archaeology? Isn't it just going to rob tombs and smuggle them! It seems that this Ullens family is not a good thing, there are genetics!

"In the early '70s, Ullens's interest in collecting took a turn from antiques to modern and contemporary Western paintings. He once said that the most vivid memory was the failure to buy an oil painting by Rothko, the master of abstract expressionism, which at the time was not expensive, about 150,000 francs. But in the end, he still didn't buy it, which became a big regret in his life. At that time, he had not been in charge of the family business for a long time, and he had to strike a balance between his strong collection** and financial strength, so many of his favorite collections had to be cut off. He simply stopped buying art and concentrated on business. ”

Anne gushed about Ullens's experience, so that Wu Tianyuan had an intuitive understanding, I believe it won't be long before they meet, and the little girl is looking forward to this day.

Ten years later, when he brought a collection back to Belgium to show it to a gallery owner, she pointed out that Ullens had bought a lot of fakes, which embarrassed him. Ullens began to gain a more systematic knowledge of how to acquire and authenticate artefacts, and a year later he met two other master experts, Christine in Paris and Eskenats in London, who are the most well-known Oriental antique dealers today, which gave Ullens access to the finest Asian antiques. ”

1987 was another turning point for him, when he began to collect works by contemporary Chinese artists. He talks about business from Monday to Friday, and spends his weekends with very creative Chinese contemporary artists, and to his surprise, even the most famous painters still work in small studios, sharing the public bathroom at the end of the corridor with others! ”

He revealed that the first contemporary Chinese work he bought was a Tibetan child painted by Ai Xuan, who was only painting under a 25-watt light bulb at the time. I was deeply moved and decided to start supporting Chinese contemporary art. ”

"Bullshit support! Actually, it's just for the hype! ”

Liu Meizi couldn't help but retort: "I think this Ullens is the same as Chen Dongsheng, they are both naked profiteers!" High-profile charity is also to accumulate popularity and social influence, and to make money by hyping up art in the next step. ”