Chapter 386: The Troubles of Happiness

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Originally, the purpose of this auction was to come for these authentic pieces, and you must know that usually these paintings are only hung on the walls of those museums.

Those museums with deep pockets don't even put these paintings up for auction, and you can't buy them if you want to.

And the second reason is that because these oil paintings are stolen from museums, because they are stolen goods, according to the rules of the underground world, their auction prices will definitely be lower than the starting prices of regular auctions.

There are many rich people who come with the heart of picking up bargains!

Now the starting price of these oil paintings has been set at 10 million US dollars, and there is no formal auction, and those auction houses have set up twists and turns, which makes everyone very satisfied, and I feel that this trip is finally worth it.

After all, if you go through the formal auction channel, those auction companies are not fuel-efficient lamps, based on the big data of electronic technology, they will invite many rich people who like this kind of collection to participate in the auction.

In addition, we will accumulate and sort out a model based on the previous bids of these monopoly people in oil painting auctions, and then analyze the mental prices of these collectors.

In the end, a starting price will be set that makes collectors very uncomfortable but reluctant to give up, and the final transaction price will be accurately estimated.

But this time it's different, because this is not a normal auction, there are not so many twists and turns, everything is straight to the point. End as soon as possible for the purpose.

So the auction began. It's not just auctioneers who want to get their hands out as soon as possible. The rich people of the buyer also hope that they can get what they want as soon as possible.

The rules of the auction are also very simple, each bid is in units of one million US dollars, there is no upper limit, and there is no free bidding.

So the auction went into a fever pitch at the beginning, and the first one to be taken out was Edgar. Degas's "Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer" soon began to sell for $10 million. was shouted 30 million dollars.

The bidding has been very enthusiastic from the beginning, and at this stage, it has begun to gradually enter the white heat, and this painting is Edgar. One of Degas's most well-known masterpieces, and an impressionist painting that is highly sought after by Western art lovers, the popularity of this painting is very high.

If you go through the normal auction route, the final transaction price exceeds 50 million, which is not a problem at all.

But this is an underground auction after all, so after the red line of 30 million US dollars, it has basically entered the final stage.

After all, everyone is here to pick up the bargain. But not many people are willing to be wronged, and there are so many good things behind them. If you spend too much on this painting, you are likely to lose your competitiveness due to lack of funds in the auction of the following paintings.

In the end, the painting was bought by a wealthy man with a British accent for 38 million dollars.

Auctions here are not as elaborate as regular auctions, as long as you bid and the purchase is successful, then you have to pay the bill immediately on the spot.

Soon the money was knocked down on the accounts of a dozen designated banks in small European countries.

And then there's Mary. Cassatt's "In the Box" is a masterpiece of a well-known American female painter in modern times, although Mary is there. Cassatt may not be well-known in Europe, but in the United States she is very popular.

Therefore, this painting was sought after by many American tycoons or representatives of American tycoons, and finally sold for nearly 40 million US dollars.

The next is Renoir's "Girl Picking Flowers in the Grass", Camille. Two peasant women on the meadow, by Bilosa, Gustav. Caillebote's "Fruit Exhibition", with the first two oil paintings, caused fierce competition.

Renoir's Girl Picking Flowers in the Grass is one of the most popular works, as Renoir is the most famous of the masterpieces in these auctions.

So as soon as this painting appeared, it caused many rich people to chase after each other, and when they fought to the end, there were only some Middle Eastern tyrants left, and a few guys from Central and South America, fighting bayonets.

Middle Eastern tyrants just don't need to say much, they must be the tycoons of a certain oil family, as for those Central and South Americans, it's even simpler, you don't need to look closely, you can know that those guys must be drug @ lords.

But in the end, the white dollar bill was obviously inferior to the black dollar bill, and in the end, this Renoir's masterpiece was pocketed by the Middle Eastern tyrant at a price of 100 million US dollars.

This price is almost not much lower than the price of a normal auction.

The auction scene has finally reached a small peak, and Jin Muchen is very satisfied with this result, after all, you can't just let these guys pick up the bargain?

In fact, he has been waiting for this group of Central and South American drug @ to make a move, after all, they are a group of nonsense guys, compared to those rich people, the number of ways they spend money is even more unreasonable.

For these works of art, they are the most needed.

After all, they can earn hundreds of millions of dollars every year just by relying on those white @ noodles, and 100% of this money is cash, and with the environment of Central and South America, it is very difficult for them to launder this money.

Therefore, most of their family's money is kept in their mansions deep in the dense forest, not only for fear of insect erosion and rat bites, but also for fear of being stolen, and even more afraid of being confiscated by the police or government troops.

And once there is any danger, when you escape, it is not easy to take the cash with you, and in the end, the brick-like cash will become the spoils of those police or government troops.

They were photographed and published in the newspaper by the reporters they found, and then they were swallowed by those black-hearted guys.

So these bigwigs are not stupid and don't like to make wedding clothes for others, so they are indispensable in underground auctions held around the world every year.

Sometimes they are even willing to pay more than the normal market price for a real work of art.

After all, this is not a loss of money for them, otherwise the cash they earn can only be left at home to mold, once they want to run, it is far easier to bring an oil painting than to bring that ton of cash.

The previous paintings, they didn't sell, not because they didn't have money, but because there were a lot of other rich people from all walks of life who came here to participate in the auction, and they had to give people a little face, and they couldn't let people come in vain, right?

And this time I was entangled with that Arab tyrant to the end, it was the signal they sent, and the remaining two paintings, don't think about it, these are ours.

Sure enough, the last two Camilles. Two peasant women on the meadow, by Bilosa, Gustav. Caillebot's "Fruit Exhibition" was pocketed by a group of Central and South Americans for a high price of 100 million US dollars.

In fact, although the value of these two paintings is not low, at best it is a single work of 50 or 60 million US dollars, but the reason why they were able to sell for such a high price later.

On the one hand, it was because some Russian black @ hand @ party were also very interested in these two paintings, so they raised the price with them for a while.

On the other hand, it is also because of the several childcare arranged by Jin Muchen, and the price has also increased a lot.

But in the end, these drug @ lords from different countries have a real fire among themselves, so the price is soaring, and the final transaction price is far beyond the original value of these paintings.

Getting such a result, Jin Muchen was smiling, and these drug @ lords didn't care, after all, they were engaged in the world's most violent @ profit industry.

As long as they plant so many acres of land every year, the cash will pour into their pockets like flowing water.

And the way they paid the bill also made Jin Muchen dumbfounded, fortunately everyone else was an electronic transfer, but they simply asked a group of servants they brought to brought, and each of them directly took out a bright and large aluminum alloy suitcase, which was full of all the green Franklin.

Now it's Jin Muchen's turn to have a headache, with so much cash, what should I do?

You must know that now in the United States, if you go to the bank to withdraw $10,000 in cash, you can be targeted by the IRS, and now you have 200 million in front of you, just looking for someone to count and check money, I don't know how many money detectors will be broken.

This is really a happy trouble, fortunately, Liao Gachev has been prepared, after all, they have not done such underground auctions once or twice, they are very experienced, and soon someone will take the cash to the back and check it, as for the final inspection, how to deal with it, then let Jin Muchen have a headache!

It's a blissful annoyance!

Several well-known Western oil paintings were filmed in this way, and many people had a feeling of unfinished, and then some other types of antiques came to the stage, such as ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, some French modern art ceramics, and some Italian antique knick-knacks.

It's all between hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars.

This part was collected by Liao Gatsev and Di Maggio, such a good large-scale auction, of course it was impossible for them not to bring some private goods, just to let Jin Muchen profit alone.

Fortunately, tonight is still a long time, and Jin Muchen doesn't care.

However, when they brought these things, they were obviously not as popular as the oil paintings just now, and although the reserve price was not high, the number of final sales was still quite limited, and most of the final results were unsold.

After all, compared with those high-end oil paintings, these things are simply unsightly tatters.

Now that the rich people are all recuperating, waiting for the next appearance, you must know that Jin Muchen was at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but he didn't just take away the oil paintings of so many famous artists...... (To be continued......)