The fun of the banquet is to participate, Qin Shiou didn't eat much, but he was very happy.

Almost a week after the party, Qin Shiou received a call from Little Black, Ritchie Auction House has done a good job of publicity, and April 18 is their highlight of the year, the spring auction.

Among the auction houses, the spring and autumn auctions are the most important, including Sotheby's, Christie's, Hong Kong Hengde and other auction houses to prepare the spring auction is also held in these days, it can be said that this time of year, is a feast for collectors.

There is always a bidder in every auction, and this time the bidder of Ritchie Auction House is the bronze statue of Perseus and Medusa by Qin Shiou.

The appearance of this statue caused an earthquake in the European collecting world, and the works of Cherini, the father of Seiko, were originally small, and today, close to five hundred years of natural disasters**, even fewer survive, especially his large bronze sculptures.

For the world of carvers, Cherini's work is no less significant than the Mona Lisa is to the world of painting, especially in the late 19th century, when the statue was lost and now recovered, adding to the legend.

Naturally, the Black family invited Qin Shiou to participate in the auction, which was held at a five-star hotel in Ottawa, and the local government used special police to assist the auction house with security work, which was grand and formal.

Before the auction began, all the auction items were displayed in the exhibition hall, and Qin Shiou watched them together accompanied by Little Blake.

A total of 48 works of art were auctioned, including calligraphy and painting, wood carving, bronze carving, pottery, porcelain, furniture, gold and silverware, and miscellaneous antiques.

At the scene, the most interesting thing was naturally the bronze statue of "Borseus and Medusa", a group of old guys with thick glasses surrounded by a group of old guys, each with a magnifying glass in their hands, staring desperately at the statue, eager to stuff this thing into their eyes.

Qin Shiou looked around, and saw another portrait of Picasso, called "Woman's Head", he studied it carefully, and felt that this painting was similar to the graffiti he had in kindergarten, and it was much uglier than his "Woman with the Golden Drum".

This gave him some confidence, and he felt that as long as there was this "Woman's Head", the price of "The Woman with the Golden Drum" would not be low.

There is a saying that is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods, and comparing his paintings is still good.

If Picasso's paintings were too much for Qin Shiou to appreciate, then the other painting he saw after that made him feel crazy - that painting is called "Calcium Hydride", which is a number of colorful circular patterns of different colors neatly arranged on the canvas.

"Isn't this also a work of art that came to auction?" Qin Shiou asked Little Black suspiciously.

Little Blake shrugged handsomely and said, "You guessed it, yes, it is." ”

Qin Shiou didn't want to show his ignorance in public, but he still couldn't help but roll his eyes: "If it's not God who is crazy, then the collectors are crazy!" ”

"It's normal if you can't appreciate it, but I have to tell you that the author of this painting is Damien Hearst, and he is the most expensive contemporary artist in the UK," Blake explains with a smile. ”

Qin Shiou doesn't want to say more, if contemporary art is to draw circles on canvas, then he should go and appreciate Chinese landscape paintings, that is the real art!

After a few glances, he was about to leave, but when he walked past a statue, he suddenly felt a throbbing in the depths of his heart.

It's a feeling I've never felt before, and if I have to describe it, it's the trembling of the soul. Under the control of this feeling, Qin Shiou stopped and looked at the statue beside him.

The statue is in the image of an apple, about the size of an adult's fist, the specific texture is not clear, similar to a wax block, but it is more cloudy, grayish and yellow, and not very beautiful.

Little Blake was a shrewd businessman, and when he saw Qin Shiou stop looking at the apple statue, he asked, "What, are you interested?" It's a nice gadget, born in the eighteenth century according to the Carbon Fourteen analysis, and it's a real antique. ”

For some reason, this thing had a strong attraction to Qin Shiou, or rather, this thing attracted Qin Shiou's heart as the god of the sea.

However, Qin Shiou didn't want to reveal his true thoughts, so he said disdainfully: "This is also an antique? Oh God, I've been stimulated so much today -- no, no, I should say, I've learned so much today. ”

Little Blake smiled happily: "Come on, Qin, your eyes have told me what you really think, you really want to get it, right?" In fact, you have a very good eye, don't look at this little thing doesn't look good, its value lies in its identity, do you know what kind of texture it is? Ambergris! ”

What ambergris is is still a mystery, and modern Western scientists have analyzed it and said that it is only a remnant of intestinal obstruction in whales, while in the Middle and Ancient Ages in the East and West, this spice was regarded as a treasure.

Qin Shiou glanced at the apple statue a few more times, and then entered the auction to prepare, and after he sat down, little Blake introduced him to a middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses, who introduced himself as Aaron Brandon, a financier.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the auction started on time, and the first auction item turned out to be the modern artwork "Calcium Hydride" that Qin Shiou looked down on.

What shocked Qin Shiou was that this bullshit portrait in his eyes was sold for a high price of 2.4 million Canadian dollars!

"Could it be that Lao Tzu's art appreciation level is so poor?" Qin Daguan was a little frustrated.

In contrast, Aaron Brandon next to him was more extreme, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Shit! Are these guys all crazy? It's a piece of rotten! A rag that deserves hell! They were willing to spend 2.4 million to buy it! A qiē is all shit! ”

Qin Daguan looked at Aaron Brandon in surprise, is this uncle hating the rich?

Immediately, it didn't take long for Qin Shiou's things to come into play, and the first thing that appeared was Arthur Pinajan's painting.

As a result, Qin Shiou was embarrassed by a scene, so many portraits were put together, and no one paid attention to them, you must know that at the beginning of the auction of "Calcium Hydride", at least five or six collectors competed to make offers.

The reserve price for the portraits was $1 million, and the auctioneer shouted several times, and finally two young American painters worked together to win the paintings at the starting price.

Then another blow appeared, Picasso's two paintings were auctioned one after another, and the first auction was "Woman's Head", which Qin Shiou disliked.

The starting price for the painting was $6 million, and as soon as the price was announced, a Russian collector raised the price by 500,000 dollars, and then there were sporadic bids, and finally the painting sold for a whopping $8.6 million.

Next came "Woman with the Golden Drum", but the starting price of this painting was only 1.8 million Canadian dollars, which is a day and a day compared to "Woman's Head".

Qin Shiou's face was not good-looking all of a sudden, and little Blake hurriedly explained, and said in a low voice: "Don't get excited, man, "Woman's Head" is a work of Mr. Picasso in his mature period, and this painting of yours is just a casual painting in his transition period." You have to know that Picasso was a prolific artist, and he had to have tens of thousands of surviving works, and to be honest, the price for which your painting was sold was not low. ”

However, little Blake comforted Qin Shiou again: "I received a call just now, I have asked a friend to help you sell your imitation painting "Sunflowers" to the New York Museum for 540,000 Canadian dollars. ”

This news made Qin Shiou smile suddenly, he didn't have any hope for the fake painting, but it turned out to be sold for more than 500,000 Canadian dollars, which was also a windfall.

During the exchange between Qin Shiou and Little Blake, the auction for "The Woman with the Golden Drum" also began.

Uncle Picasso had a big face after all, and although the value of the painting was not favorable, several Russian and Middle Eastern collectors still competed for it, and finally a wealthy businessman from the United Arab Emirates won the painting for 2.5 million Canadian dollars.

About ten works of art were auctioned, and the auction began to rest, and when I came back, the ambergris apples that Qin Shiou was very concerned about started to be auctioned.

Coincidentally, the name of the ambergris apple turned out to be 'Poseidon's delicacy', the auctioneer explains: "It was a gift from the sea, and we consulted Professor Braque Hassen, a marine expert at the University of Toronto, who found it to be a sacrifice to the god of the sea by fishermen in the 18th century...... Its starting price is - 1.6 million! ”

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