The three bigwigs of Pan Jiayuan were actually satisfied to be able to participate in such a big auction. What's more www.biquge.info they also have self-knowledge, knowing that there are very few works in this auction that they can compete for, so they have already formulated a bidding plan, that is, no matter what, they can't go home empty-handed, and they have to auction the next one, and the work they fancy is the "Cursive Post" of Wang Duo, a calligrapher in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

Among the 28 lots in Bohai this time, this "Cursive Script" work is not the best, but it is not the worst either. Therefore, in terms of price, the three bigwigs can also afford it. For them, winning this work is equivalent to completing the task and retiring. For Lin Yi, all he has to do is to help them come up with advice and ultimately win.

In fact, in the preview, Lin Yi has already done a profound appraisal and research on this work.

Lin Yi's calligraphy is inherited from Wang Duo, so in Lin Yi's view, this "Cursive Character Post" is not Wang Duo's best work, to put it bluntly, it is a post made by ancient literati practicing calligraphy in their spare time. However, with the popularity of Wang Duo's calligraphy auctions in the international market in recent years, many of his works have been auctioned at sky-high prices. According to Lin Yi's estimates, in terms of the artistic value of calligraphy, the price of this work should be between 5 million and 8 million, but according to today's market conditions, it will be doubled, and the auction price should be around 10 million to 16 million. Why is this happening? It's like putting a gemstone of the same value in the showcases of different shopping malls, where the price is lower and the high-end malls are much more expensive.

If you have a plan, you just need to execute it well. For the three bigwigs of Pan Jiayuan, what they have to do is to bid with other auctioneers, leave an impression that is not in vain, and use this auction to increase their value.

28 works of art, not much, just an hour, has been auctioned almost a third, of which the highest auction price is a Song Dynasty "Lady Picture", the author is the Song Dynasty royal descendant Zhao Mengfu.

Lin Yi clearly remembers that when he was a child in art class, there were many works of Zhao Mengfu introduced in calligraphy and painting, and later I learned that this person was really amazing, and he was also the most controversial person in the history of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy.

To be precise, Zhao Mengfu is the 11th grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and the descendant of Zhao Defang, the king of Qin.

His father, Zhao Hexu, was the head of the household department of the Song Dynasty and the pacification envoy of the governor of Lin'an Prefecture and the western part of Zhejiang, and after the fall of the Song Dynasty, he returned to his hometown to live idlely. Yuan Dynasty to the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty, Xingtai Imperial Shi Cheng Jufu "edict to visit the relics in the south of the Yangtze River", Yuan Shizu appreciated his talent, two years later from the four products of the collection of straight bachelors, but unfortunately because of the special identity, has been regarded as a different kind of in the imperial court, but not reused. The meaning of the Yuan Dynasty was very simple, to give preferential treatment to the Song royal family, so as to show the imperial grace of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

In this way, Zhao Mengfu became an embarrassing existence in the court of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and for this reason, the self-aware Zhao Mengfu begged for illness by the way. But fate loved him very much, and in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu's fate changed. The crown prince Aiyu Li Bali Bada became interested in him, and he lasted for three years, and his official residence was a good one, and he was famous all over the world."

Generally speaking, Zhao Mengfu is a generation of calligraphy and painting, experienced a life of complex contradictions and embarrassment, he as a relic of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, for this, the history books left a lot of controversy. "Bo Qiren then Bo his book", belittling Zhao Mengfu's style of writing, the fundamental reason is that he despises Zhao Mengfu's personality. Zhao Mengfu is erudite and talented, can be good at poetry and literature, understands economics, works calligraphy, fine painting art, is good at gold and stone, and understands Lu, and understands appreciation. In particular, calligraphy and painting have the highest achievements, creating a new style of painting in the Yuan Dynasty, and are known as the "crown of the Yuan people". Since the age of five, Zhao Mengfu began to learn calligraphy, almost every day, until his death, he still watched calligraphy and wrote calligraphy, which can be said to have reached the point of a soft spot for calligraphy. He is good at sealing, li, true, line, cursive, especially in Kai, line of writing is famous in the world, his style of writing is charming, Xiuyi, the knot is rigorous, the penmanship is familiar, and the world is known as "Zhao Ti". Together with Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, and Ouyang Xun, they are known as the "four masters" of regular script.

Zhao Mengfu has many handwritings, and his representative works include "Thousand Character Text", "Luo Shen Fu", "Bile Ba Tablet", "Return to the Words", "Lanting Thirteen Treks", "Red Cliff Fu", "Tao Te Ching", "Qiu Yi Tombstone Inscription" and so on. He is the author of 12 volumes of "Notes on Shangshu" and "Songxuezhai Anthology". Zhao Mengfu's paintings almost inherited the legacy of the Song Dynasty, and made outstanding achievements in figure painting, especially lady painting, the most famous is the "Human Riding Picture", the mellow posture of the maid and the high-headed horse combined, forming a special painting style, and this work has also become a national treasure and is preserved in the Palace Museum.

Since ancient times, there has been an unwritten rule in the world of collecting that the more controversial an artist's work is, the more collectible it is. Zhao Mengfu is the same, since the Yuan Dynasty, he has been criticized in character, so his works have also been "underestimated", until now, Zhao Mengfu's works have become a rare treasure. After nearly 97 bids, the auction of "Lady Picture" soared from the reserve price of 1.8 million to 58 million, and was finally auctioned by Wan Jianhao, forming the first climax of this auction.

Not to mention that the rich people who participated in the auction gave Wan Jianhao a thumbs up, it is really capricious to be rich, and even those media have focused on this super boss who spent half a billion to shoot a Song Dynasty work. It is certain that after the auction is over, this work will be hyped by the media just by auctioning.

The auction continued, with a number of paintings and calligraphy from the Qing and Ming dynasties, including Zheng Banqiao's painting "Sui Zhu", Dong Qichang's calligraphy "Thousand Character Classic", and Fu Shan's "Catalogue of Looking at the Green Mountains from a Distance", among others.

One of the most impressive is a fragmented "Zhong Kui Picture" in the Tang Dynasty. According to research, the author is Wu Daozi, a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty.

Wu Daozi is known as the "saint of painting", he lost his father at an early age, lived in poverty, and began to work as a painter and sculptor at an early age. He studied calligraphy under Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, but his achievements were not great. Later, he specialized in painting, due to his hard work, he made rapid progress, "the year is not weak, and the poor Danqing is wonderful". He served as the lieutenant of Yanzhou Jianqiu County, and resigned soon after. Later, he was exiled to Luoyang and engaged in mural painting. During the Kaiyuan period, he was summoned to the court with good paintings, and successively served as a worshipper, a doctor of internal teaching, and a friend of Ning Wangyou. He once studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and experienced the way of using the pen by watching Gongsun Auntie dance the sword. He is good at Buddhism, gods and ghosts, people, landscapes, birds and beasts, plants and trees, pavilions, etc., especially good at Buddhism, characters, and is good at mural creation.

This "Zhong Kui Picture" painting style is more special, unlike those portraits of Zhong Kui in the past, either holding a demon sword, or holding a folding fan, or kicking and fighting with Kuixing, but very interesting to cover half of his face with a big red robe, like a child playing hide and seek with a strange smile, which is a little different.

Here, as long as you are an expert, you know that "Zhong Kui", the folk demon hunter, was a person in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, that is to say, Zhong Kui only appeared in the Tang Dynasty, so there are very few "Zhong Kui Pictures" in the Tang Dynasty, and those that can be preserved are rare treasures, not to mention the paintings of Wu Daozi, who are still "painting saints", which are even more precious.

However, it is precisely because of these two points that it is difficult for many appraisers to determine the authenticity of this picture. In other words, many people think that this picture is "fake". The reason is that there are few paintings of Wu Daozi, and even if they are circulated, they are collected by large museums. Zhong Kui happened to appear in the Tang Dynasty, and the Zhong Kui paintings that could be preserved during this period are too coincidental.

Because it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, during the preview, the Bohai auction party has already listed this work as a "special lot" and invited the appraisers to give an appraisal, and the final conclusion is still --- to be determined.

Because of the "pending", when this work was put up for auction, many collectors were afraid to bid or not, and those appraisers were also hesitant, all looking at Tan Jinfu to see how he decided.

Tan Jinfu did not hesitate and pointed to Wan Jianhao: "Take a picture of it!" ”

Wan Jianhao is holding up a sign here, and other collectors look at me, and I look at you.

The floor price of this picture is 3.5 million, which is not too much to say but not too much.

If it's genuine, then it's definitely worth the price, and even 35 million is not much, but if it's fake, it's an eye-catcher.

However, with Tan Jinfu, the expert of identification, everyone else hesitated to follow, and decided that since Tan Jinfu dared to make a move, the authenticity of this painting would be higher.

The three bigwigs of Pan Jiayuan were also a little itchy, and looked at Lin Yi with their eyes, but Lin Yi neither supported them to participate in the filming, nor did he stop them. So the white shopkeeper had the courage to follow suit.

So this controversial painting of the saint Wu Daozi's incomplete "Zhong Kui Picture", from the reserve price of 3.5 million, all the way to 15 million, then to 25 million, and then to 28 million, it is about to break through 30 million, at this time Wan Jianhao bid 29 million, which is already the highest.

The other collectors were all excited, and the white shopkeeper and others couldn't help but want to continue to increase the price, but at this time, Lin Yi stopped them and said, "Wait!" ”

After a short pause, there were already collectors bidding 30 million. Everyone habitually waited for Wan Jianhao to continue to raise the price, but what made everyone stunned was that Wan Jianhao did not raise his cards this time.

"30 million, once!"

"30 million, twice!"

"30 million, three times!"

After the auction master of ceremonies shouted three times in a row, the final word, "Deal---! ”

The collector who shouted 30 million was a little confused, he was just rushing forward, because in his opinion, this work Wan Jianhao was bound to win, show his face, and fight with him to make a name for himself, but ...... Why did you shoot it?

The collector looked at Wan Jianhao with a bitter face and looked at Tan Jinfu---

Tan Jinfu just said in a very low voice, "Is the fake ear of the Tang Dynasty worth 30 million photos?" ”

What the? Fake!

Everyone was shocked again.

Since it's a fake, why should he increase the price? Since it is a fake, why is he lifting it so high?

Everyone looked at Wan Jianhao, as well as Tan Jinfu, who was smiling and groaning beside him, and a thought suddenly popped up in their hearts: Followers, die! (To be continued.) )