Chapter 218: Three Things
"Mingluo, let's go." In the west of Xinchuan City, all the large and small restaurants in the noon scene are basically bursting, a restaurant near the Mid-Mountain Villa Group, Huang Jingjing smiled in the private room on the second floor and picked up the wine glass and touched it forward, before laughing, "Although I didn't get anything good today, but it was worth watching such a good show, tsk, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I really couldn't imagine that there were such wonderful people in the world." ”
The wonderful person in Huang Jingjing's mouth is naturally Jin Zaixing, this is indeed wonderful, he has never really seen the one who threw money to buy the right person before, and in the end the black market auction in the morning even Sean was in charge of the work, and it was basically clear that Jin was not the childcare invited by Sean, so in the end, the only conclusion left was that the goods were sick, and the illness was not light.
If Jin Zaixing heard this evaluation, I am afraid that he would not be moved to tears immediately, he is really sick, but it is not a brain disease as everyone thinks, but just an elbow that seems to have some kind of disease.
It's a pity that these are not known to outsiders, and the black market convened by Sean after Jin Zai's walk also continued to be auctioned, and dozens of antiques were auctioned in the morning, containing a blend of Chinese and Western cultures, and there were also some fakes that were seen through, until the end of the day, although Huang Dashao also brought millions of dollars over like Zhou Mingluo.
But his harvest is really not much, Huang Jingjing in addition to winning the first broken pipe that can't see the origin, and later also won an antique from the United Kingdom, but Zhou Mingluo's harvest is really not small, it can be said that it is a bumper harvest, in addition to spending 100,000 US dollars to buy the river bank map with a picture in the picture, the other harvest is a manuscript, which cost 300,000 US dollars to take, and the other is an oil painting, this painting is the main event, which is enough for him to spend 8 million US dollars to eat.
Whether it's the creek bank, the manuscript, or the last oil painting, it's enough to make people excited.
Needless to say, it is the true work of the monk Juran, one of the founding masters of landscape painting in southern China, who definitely picked up a big bargain for nothing.
As for the manuscript, it turned out to be [Napoleon's Memoirs], Napoleon's influence is almost needless to say, once ruled almost the entire Western Europe, as well as a large territory in Central Europe, became the same as Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, drove the Russians out of the capital Moscow, and his outstanding martial arts are absolutely eye-popping.
His influence on France and the world was enormous, and this memoir is the manuscript that he dictated, recorded and arranged by the Count of Las Gas, and finally revised by Napoleon himself when he was confined to St. Helena in his later years, and finally edited by Napoleon himself, the content of which is the war against Toulon in 1793 and the war against Italy from 1796 to 1797, etc., which Napoleon participated in and commanded, as well as his speeches and orders to his soldiers in these wars. The complex diplomatic struggle against the belligerents, etc., is more precisely a military anthology of Napoleon's own.
However, the manuscript was incomplete, only 13 pages long, full of spelling mistakes, and many sentences did not make sense at all.
Although such a manuscript is only a few pieces of paper, the commemorative significance is really not low, and Zhou Mingluo can eat it for 300,000 US dollars, which is actually a big advantage.
Because the manuscript had been auctioned seven or eight years earlier, it had attracted a lot of competition at the auction in Paris, and it was finally bought by a Swiss collector for 250,000 euros, equivalent to 330,000 US dollars at the time.
Seven or eight years ago, prices may have risen a lot, Zhou Mingluo only spent 300,000 US dollars to buy this manuscript, because the other white people present have scruples, those guys are basically from Europe, for the Swiss collector who once bought this manuscript can be said to have heard of, knowing that the other party's energy is not small, he really dare not buy it back casually, in case the other party knows that it will be a big trouble.
And the only guy from the Americas may not have to worry about the Swiss one, but unfortunately his cash was almost spent in the previous auction, and Zhou Mingluo seemed to be full of confidence in the acquisition, so he picked up this leak.
I have to say that Xiao Zhou really doesn't need to worry about the Swiss collector Shenma for the time being, but it's hard for Sean to even get this.
Aside from the last oil painting of the manuscript, it is quite exciting, and it can even be called a big surprise. Finch's Lida and the Swan!!
Leonardo? Reach? Vinci, one of the three masters of the Italian Renaissance, even if he is as famous as unimaginable in the 21st century, not to mention his achievements in science, he is also a mountain of admiration in art, and there is no artwork in the world today that can be as famous as the Mona Lisa, and at the same time attract all kinds of opinions and evaluations.
In 1994, a manuscript of the giant was written by Bill? Gates bought it for a sky-high price of 30.8 million US dollars, if Napoleon is an outstanding political and military emperor in human history, then this one is also not one of the rare emperors in the history of art.
And [Lida and the Swan] is Da? One of Vinci's most cherished works in his life, he always kept with him, and he continued to leave him after moving to France in his later years, but the original painting was finally lost in Paris.
One can imagine what kind of sky-high price such an oil painting can sell for in terms of value.
At that time, everyone didn't expect that such a thing would appear at the auction held by Sean, and the world knew it. The original painting of Vinci [Lida and the Swan] is missing, so when Sean took it out, everyone thought it was just a fake, an imitation of someone else.
As a result, Zhou Mingluo stepped forward to watch and was shocked to find that it was real. Finch's authentic handiwork.
The humanistic fire of this painting is close to bursting with the surname quality, almost filled with a radius of five meters of cyan flames, only some corners have not been affected, it is already the limit that the third-level antique is about to reach, and one or two steps further, it is similar to the flow of the water belt of the second-level antique can do.
But the problem is, although he can be sure that this is Da by relying on the connoisseurship of the talisman? Finch's authenticity, others can't be 100% sure, even after appreciating and evaluating again and again, no one else has the confidence to say that it is genuine, and others also think that this painting can be fake, maybe it is imitated by some master.
Of course, even if someone really suspects that it is genuine, it may definitely not be more than one percent, after all, this thing has been lost for so many years, who would have thought that they would be so lucky and run into it directly? Even Sean, who took out the painting, was not sure that it was real.
As a result, Zhou Mingluo picked up a big bargain again, and only spent 8 million US dollars to win it, of course, at that time, his funds were already insufficient, and he still borrowed a large amount of cash from Huang Jingjing.
After all, no one else is sure that this is the real thing, even if someone is willing to gamble, but they don't dare to easily spend ** million dollars to gamble that less than one percent of the possibility, even if there are those who dare to gamble, but there may not be so much cash, who let it be a black market auction, five million dollars in cash is a weight of dozens of catties, no matter how rich your assets are, it is useless to bring them to the scene.
And the RMB value of this painting [Lida and the Swan] is definitely calculated in units of 100 million.
A long time ago, Zhou Mingluo once relied on his own guess to classify antiques, at that time he had not yet come into contact with second-level antiques like Dingshuidai, plus the hazy idea of the Yellow Book, his classification of antiques is to compare the fourth-level talisman of the Yellow Book, and classify the antiques below 10 million yuan as fourth-level antiques, 10 million to 100 million yuan into third-level antiques, and more than 100 million yuan as second-level antiques.
However, at that time, these divisions were just his speculation and speculation, until now, as he understands the Yellow Book more and more, he himself has a new understanding of the classification of antiques.
Fourth-level antiques have not changed much, less than 10 million yuan is almost enough, and third-level antiques are basically more than 10 million, do not contain the type of peculiar appearance, second-level antiques are priceless things such as Dingshui Belt and Kyushu Ding, and there are some peculiar effects or appearances.
As for the first-class antiques, it should be the unity of the water belt, or the Kyushu Ding can only be born after the gathering.
It is difficult to even say that this painting "Lida and the Swan" is worth it in terms of money, because it has never been auctioned in modern times. The value of Fincher's works can also be deduced, at Christie's auction in New York in 98, a [Portrait of a Girl] by an unknown painter was purchased for 11,000 pounds, and it was not until 11 years later that it was suspected by outsiders that it was Da? After Vinci's authenticity was finally taken out and finally confirmed to be authentic by a large number of experts, the value of the painting soared, and many experts speculated that it could be sold for 100 million pounds, almost 150 million US dollars.
In addition, in a castle in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in broad daylight, two thieves sneaked into the castle and stole Da? Vinci's famous painting "Madonna and Scroll", that painting is also worth more than 30 million pounds.
So what about this now? Vinci was his favorite when he was alive, and he always carried his treasured works with him, and the difference between it and second-class antiques may only be that he does not have the miraculous ability to desalinate seawater.
It's just 8 million US dollars and almost 50 million yuan to take it, which is really too big.
But now his harvest in the morning has already been transported back to the villa, and now he is just going out to eat and celebrate with Comrade Xiao Huang.
"I'll borrow your $3.5 million, and I've already asked someone to transfer it to you." After a toast, he laughed in a low voice, he took out five million US dollars, more than 30 million yuan, and spent it in less than half a day in the blink of an eye, and even carried a lot of debts, this speed is absolutely amazing, but this money is indeed worth spending, and it is a pleasure to spend.
(To be continued)