Chapter 472: The Mysterious Boss
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Wu Di looked at the picture with a smile while guessing the reason why this painting appeared here, needless to say, the painting was too well preserved, and the collision with Lan Ying's famous work was the main reason. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoBut,It's been more than 500 years.,How can this look like a new work? Could it be that he has lost his eyes too?
He shook his head, this brush is rough and bold, majestic, full of force and hardness. At first glance, it gives people a feeling of vastness and vigor, but savoring it, and can capture a magnificent and moist meaning from some details, the painter through his pen power to paint a clear and cold picture of a grand and peaceful artistic conception, this is not Shen Zhou's pen whose hand?
"Boss, how much does this painting cost?"
"This painting?"
The boss gave Wu Di a thumbs up,
"Sir, good eye! This painting technique is rigorous and beautiful, with a calm and steady brush, and there are muscles and bones inside, which is really the best imitation of Shen Zhou's works! It's a pity that I can't find the source, otherwise I would be reluctant to hang it here for sale! ā
"Oh, okay, I know it's a good painting, but now I'm concerned about the price. Don't shout expensive, I can't afford it. ā
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, one of Shen Zhou's authentic works is almost hundreds of millions, and ours is a hundred times cheaper than him, only 800,000!"
"An imitation, it's not imitated by a famous artist, you want 800,000?"
Wu Di shook his head and stretched out two fingers,
"200,000."
"200,000 is not good, the difference is too far, and the cost cannot be recovered."
"Then add another 10,000, 210,000."
The two bargained for a while, and finally sold it for 480,000 yuan, and they were all happy.
After reading the ink part, Wu Di turned back to look at the oil painting, which surprised the boss who had been paying attention to him. Generally speaking. He nodded, and made a judgment in his heart, this young man was probably a student who studied painting, and he was also the kind of student who was very rich and willing to spend money.
"Sir, I still have a few fine paintings here, I wonder if you are interested in looking at them?"
When Wu Di finished reading the last one and was about to turn around and leave, the boss stopped him.
Got a boutique? As long as the price is not particularly boutique. Of course I'm interested.
Wu Di nodded with a smile, followed the boss into the office at the end of the gallery, the boss made them a few cups of tea, got up and went out to get the paintings.
Wu Di looked at the office with more than a dozen square meters, and found that there was nothing to see, so he sat down and concentrated on dealing with the tea. After shopping for a long time, I was really thirsty.
After waiting for a while, the boss walked in with a few works. Wu Di took a look at the material of the canvas. I guess it should be oil painting and ink painting.
The first one was an oil painting, but as soon as he opened it, it startled him. Because not only is the picture scary, but the person who painted it is even more scary. This is Edward of Norway? Munch's work!
Edward? Munch was a great painter, a pioneer of modern expressionist painting. His paintings have a strong subjectivity and a sad and oppressive mood. Picasso and Matisse have absorbed his artistic nourishment, and some artists in Germany and France have also been inspired by his works. His intense, call-out approach to psychological anguish had a major influence on the growth of German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
In Munch's paintings. Lines and colors are endowed with a strong expressiveness, and he tries to paint living people with them. Munch has been trying to explore the various conditions of the human psyche, trying to express themes such as illness, death, despair, and love through his brush. Therefore. His creations have the title of "realism of the mind".
His most famous painting, The Scream, is said to have been estimated at more than $100 million.
This painting is another of his masterpieces, and it should have been in the collection of Rasmus? The Meyer Collection's "Carl? Evening on John Street.
The picture of this painting is very simple, it is a street that seems to have no end in sight, as if there is no end in sight, and in the picture, a figure is like a ghost, walking by the walking dead, which strongly expresses the pessimism and anxiety of the painter's lonely heart about life.
"This one is not bad, but I don't like Munch's style very much, and he paints people like ghosts......
Wu Di opened the second painting as he spoke, this painting shows the scene of a lonely boat on the sea struggling in the storm, the picture is normal, neither Fauvism nor impressionism, but it frightens Wu Di far better than the first one, because it is Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of Galilee"! And it's genuine!
Rembrandt? Halmansson? Every? Rhine was one of the greatest painters of the 17th century in Europe and the greatest painter in Dutch history. His place in the history of painting, not only in the Netherlands but in Europe, is on a par with the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
Rembrandt was great because of a special technique, chiaroscuro. Once the term is associated with him, it takes on a special meaning. His chiaroscuro has a very different meaning from that of Italian painters during the Renaissance. Therefore, the French 19th-century painter and critic Fromantin called him a "luminous insect", and some people said that he painted light with darkness.
However, his greatness will not frighten Wu Di, this is a genuine work is not the reason for his horror, what really scares Wu Di is what is hidden behind this painting, because this is a stolen world famous painting! It is currently at the top of the police bounty list, with a bounty of up to $5 million!
In March 1990, Isabella in Boston, USA? Stewart? The Gardner Museum was ransacked by two unidentified thieves, who looted more than $300 million worth of world-class paintings in almost an hour and a half, including Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of Galilee"!
This case was the largest art theft in history, and none of the stolen artworks were insured. After all these years, even though the police have offered a reward of $5 million for the murderer, there are still no clues about the mysterious thieves and the stolen famous paintings.
Wu Di wiped his chin, glanced at the boss with a normal look, and said:
"This guy must be thinking it's a fake, right? Grandma, aren't you giving me a problem? ā
For a moment, he hesitated, should he treat it as if he didn't see it and let it go gently, or should he be an unscrupulous collector? It's a pity, if this painting is okay, get it in your hands, and find a big Dutch collector, how many ancestral treasures can be exchanged for it!
Swap for baby? His heart suddenly moved, grandma's, what kind of morality is immoral, what you have robbed can be made public in a grand manner after more than a hundred years, and it will become immoral for Lao Tzu to buy things openly and go back? Isn't this still the robber logic of the past? Damn, I'm afraid of gasping, buy!
The next three Wu Di looked at it very quickly, mainly because they were not very attractive, they were all imitations of famous paintings, but the last painting made his eyes widen.
This is a huge ink painting on silk, signed "Early Spring, Renzi Guo Xi Pen", with the seal of "Guo Xi Pen".
Early Spring is a work by Guo Xi, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, and has always been regarded as a monumental landscape painting that can be compared with Fan Kuan's "Traveling in Streams and Mountains" and Li Tang's "Ten Thousand Pine Winds", and is currently in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. But what makes Wu Di strange is that this one looks like a real painting!
Guo Xi was a famous painter and painting theorist in the Northern Song Dynasty. He paints mountains and rocks mostly with cirrus clouds or grimaces, and paints trees like crab claws drooping, the pen is strong, the ink is bright and clean, and the layout brushwork is unique. He has also made achievements in painting theory, he observes the landscape of the four seasons, and has the feeling that "the spring mountains are as light as a smile, the summer mountains are green as drops, the autumn mountains are clear and clean as makeup, and the winter mountains are bleak like sleep".
Wu Di finished reading the painting little by little, and finally determined that this painting should not be the same as the one in the National Palace in Taipei, but it is definitely Guo Xi's authentic work!
Covering up this last painting, Wu Di used the book of heaven to identify it, and the results surprised him, the first Munch's "Carl? Evening on John Street" is actually the real thing!
He shook his head incredulously and looked at the smiling boss. In an instant, the ordinary image of the boss became great in his eyes, and three of the six paintings in the collection were the works of great masters.
"Boss, let's make sure of one thing first, are these six imitations all high-quality?"
The boss smiled incomprehensibly and said:
"Sir, you can say whatever you want, you've finished reading it, I don't know if these paintings can still be eye-catching?"
"Well, although they are all imitations, but the imitations are very good, you can make a bid, one by one."
"Hehe, you don't have to come one by one, these paintings are good or bad, whether they are true or false, they are packaged and sold together, 2 million ...... Dollar! ā
Sell it in a package and pay back $2 million? Wu Di looked at the boss's smile that seemed to be a little mysterious, and his heart sank directly. This amount of money is common for antique trading, but there are really few fakes that dare to open at this price. Listening to the boss's tone, and looking at his determined expression, Wu Di is sure that this guy at least knows that there is a genuine painting here!
However, even if only one is genuine, it shouldn't be at this price. Then, the only thing that can be sold at this price is the kind of thing that comes from an unknown source and can't see the light!
Your sister! This is a pit Lao Tzu! A huge question mark surged in Wu Di's heart, and he couldn't wait to call the police now and earn the 5 million reward!
No, no! A thought suddenly crossed his mind, since he ran a gallery, there was no reason why he didn't know the story of this painting, so since he dared to show it to a stranger like him, most of the time he didn't recognize it. However, the price ...... Could it be that there is something wrong with those two paintings? (To be continued.) )