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Western antiques are not like our Chinese antiques, there are thousands of miscellaneous, in addition to the top porcelain, calligraphy and painting, as well as a variety of jewelry and jade, as well as the four treasures of the study, as well as the royal collection and other miscellaneous.

Their antiques are divided into several categories, the first group is oil paintings, then antique furniture, then antique jewelry, then sculptures, and then miscellaneous items such as coins, clocks, etc.

Among all the categories, the most widely accepted is oil painting, and it can even be said that oil painting is the crown of Western antiques.

The reason why I say this is because oil painting, compared with other types of Western antiques, has a very effective value evaluation standard or system.

Famous works, scarce works, works with special artistic value, historical value, etc., these are all effective value criteria to judge whether an oil painting is precious.

You can find such characteristics in many oil paintings, and those world-class famous paintings even combine many characteristics.

In addition to those top antique furniture, or jewelry, or clocks and watches, coins, more ordinary Western antiques, many of which do not have such characteristics.

This is the main reason why these Western antiques are not as popular in the market as oil paintings.

For example, the Roman sculptures that Jin Muchen had seen before, in addition to the fact that they were ancient Roman works, had very special historical value. Others, such as masterpieces. Scarce works. Special artistic value, you can't even find out who the sculpture is.

Therefore, the value of such sculptures cannot be compared with the oil paintings collected here.

And those things, which are too big to carry, are also the main reason why Jin Muchen gave up on them and went straight to these oil paintings.

Oil paintings here. Compared with other Western antiques, it is a rare hard currency.

Coming down from the west building, Jin Muchen went straight to the exhibition hall of Monet's works on the first floor on the east side, which is the second largest collection of Monet's paintings outside of France in the world, which houses about 40 authentic works of Monet.

Needless to say, Monet's fame is no less than Picasso's famous European Impressionist oil painting master, and many of his works, especially the "Water Lilies" series that he is best at, can fetch tens of millions of dollars for any random pair on the market.

So his work is not to be missed. You know, some time ago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, did a small investigation, which was in their museum. The works of those Western Impressionist painters were the most popular.

Among the top 10 works, Monet alone was selected for four, including a painting he painted in 1907, "Water Lilies", and his "Bolivar San Denis in Winter", a total of four.

The total price of these works, Jin Muchen estimates, how can it be hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thinking of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in the past 100 years, so many treasures have been looted from our China by unscrupulous means, Jin Muchen pondered, why do you have to let them bleed out, right?

There is a special exhibition hall on the east side of the first floor of Monet's works, and when Jin Muchen came to step on the spot a few days ago, he went to it several times, and it was more like a cave than an exhibition hall.

The arched door, which resembles an arched corridor with no windows, is hung on the walls at both ends of the corridor, and the beige wallpaper is very stylish.

But after today, these famous paintings of Monet will say goodbye to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston forever, and when I think of this, it can be regarded as revenge for the museum, Jin Muchen is full of excitement.

After doing this vote, he may be the most famous art thief in the history of the world, right?

Thinking of this name, Jin Muchen couldn't help but feel a little funny, and sped up his feet, passed through the middle hall, and came to the Western oil painting exhibition area on the first floor of the East Building.

However, when he came to the Monet Oil Painting Exhibition Hall, which he had visited a few days ago, he was dumbfounded, because this corridor, which resembles a cave, was actually locked.

That's right, at the entrance of the exhibition hall, there is an extra heavy iron door coming out, this Nima, what's going on?

When I came here a few days ago, didn't you notice that there was an iron door in this exhibition hall?

Reaching out and touching the heavy iron door, Jin Muchen pushed it tentatively, and immediately gave up the idea of breaking in by violent destruction.

This iron door, at least ten centimeters thick, is electrically controlled, usually hidden in the middle of the wall in the mezzanine, when the museum is closed at night, there will be special staff, the two iron doors are locked.

And it seems that this iron door should be specially connected to the electronic alarm system, if you break in, it is very likely to provoke the police and security guards.

Rub, it seems that the people of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, are not too stupid, do they still know the value of these Monet's works, so they have installed a special protection system here.

I didn't expect that after pondering for several days, the first goal of Western oil painting was actually unsuccessful!

However, Jin Muchen quickly adjusted his frustration, you must know that there are twenty or thirty exhibition halls on the first floor on the east side, but not every exhibition hall has such an electronic iron door like this Monet Pavilion.

Monet's works are not easy to do, but there are many other European oil painting masters here.

For example, Van Gogh's 1890 "Orwell's House," which was voted the most popular Impressionist painting by American art lovers in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, hangs on the wall of the gallery next door to the Monet Gallery.

Jin Muchen came to the front of this painting, and before he started, he first looked at the back of the painting, and sure enough, it was the same as the Chinese Pavilion of the Oriental Department, and there was no trigger alarm system behind the frame.

It seems that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is really too proud, thinking that no one dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head.

Since everyone is so cooperative, if Jin Muchen is polite, it will be too hypocritical, and the oil painting with a small area will be taken down directly, wrapped, and then stuffed into the travel bag at the back.

After taking this one, continue to search.

Edgar. Degas's Little Fourteen Dancer, Mary. Cassatt's "In the Box", Renoir's "Girl Picking Flowers in the Grass", Camille. Two peasant women on the meadow, by Bilosa, Gustav. Caillebot's "Fruit Exhibition", among the ten most popular impressionist oil paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, selected by contemporary Americans, except for four by Monet, were all included by Jin Muchen.

The collection of oil paintings here is calculated in hundreds of thousands, and Jin Muchen has also made up for the knowledge of Western oil painting before, but after all, Western oil painting has a history of hundreds of years, and he has only been studying for a few months, which can only be regarded as the first acquaintance.

And even if he knew that impressionist paintings were the most popular now, there were tens of thousands of impressionist paintings here, and there were no less than 10,000 masterpieces.

Of course, he couldn't take all these 10,000 famous Impressionist paintings, he could only choose the best ones to take away, but how could he know that those paintings were the most outstanding of these paintings?

This is thanks to the vote of the American people, otherwise Jin Muchen would really be blind.

Of the ten most popular Impressionist paintings, he took six of them, and although he did not have Monet's four, he was already satisfied.

But this is not enough, you must know that the oil paintings on display in this museum are not only these impressionist paintings, but also the works of many other style masters, which are also very valuable.

For example, the famous French Paul. The self-portrait "Madame Cézanne Sitting in a Red Armchair" painted by Cézanne to his wife, the unit price of this painting is not less than 100 million, or US dollars, how can Jin Muchen miss it.

You must know that before he came, he learned more about the most valuable Western oil paintings in this art museum, and this Cézanne's work is among them, although it cannot enter the top ten, but it is also among the best.

For example, with Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and called the Dutch painter Three Musketeers Young. Vermeer's painting "Concert" was introduced by Jin Muchen in a magazine.

At that time, it was the owner behind the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and it was auctioned at the end of the 90s of the last century, and at that time, the painting was sold for a sky-high price: 250 million US dollars!

When he saw this amount at that time, Jin Muchen once wondered if he was dazzled and misunderstood.

At the end of the 90s of the last century, a painting worth 250 million US dollars, how much is it worth now?

Jin Muchen didn't quite understand the estimation of the appreciation system of oil paintings, but he pondered that the painting was now worth at least $300 million.

To be honest, when I used to play Chinese antiques, I felt that the fine porcelain of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of yuan, was already very valuable, but in fact, when it was put into the international market, compared with the king oil paintings of foreign devil antiques, it was completely trivial.

Of course, Jin Muchen was not polite to this oil painting, he took it off the wall directly, wrapped it, and put it in the travel bag at the back.

The next work he was going to pick up, according to the magazine, was worth more than the "concert" he had won before.

Because this painting is an extremely rare self-portrait of Rembrandt, this guy is a Dutch painter as famous as Van Gogh and Vermeer.

Compared with Van Gogh, his life experience is a little better, but not too much, when he was alive, he was relatively ordinary, and even in his later years, he was more miserable, but after he died, especially after the paintings he had hidden were discovered, he was able to become famous! (To be continued......)