When he saw this sunflower painting, Jin Muchen's heart was even more excited, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat, Nima's, I really didn't expect that he could see such a famous work as "Sunflower" here.

And with just one glance, Jin Muchen could conclude that this sunflower must be Van Gogh's authentic work, because the golden light of the sunflower flowers on this painting only shook him dizzy.

If it was a fake, it would be impossible for him to see such a light on this painting, and by now, Jin Muchen already had considerable experience with his golden eyes.

A painting that shines with such light is almost 100% sure that it is genuine.

And in this world, the only one who can paint "Sunflowers" so successfully is that and Gauguin, and Cézanne, Van Gogh, one of the three founders of Western Impressionist oil painting.

Speaking of Van Gogh, many people have heard of his name, although he has passed away for hundreds of years, but now even people who do not understand art, hearing his name, will feel like thunder, in fact, in the world of Western oil painting, the painting after the auction price is only so two, one is Picasso, the other is Van Gogh.

Even the Frenchman Monet, who later carried forward the Impressionist oil paintings, the auction price of his works was not as good as Van Gogh's works.

In this way, this Dutchman Van Gogh seems to be quite successful, but in fact, if you know him, you will know that this guy's life is actually an out-and-out tragedy.

Van Gogh's background was not very good, and he made a living by painting when he became an adult, but in his era, some painters either became famous early, and after becoming famous, they made a living, or they were raised by the aristocracy and painted for the nobles, so they did not worry about eating and drinking, and their lives were worry-free.

But Van Gogh is not in line with these two kinds of painters, if you have to characterize him, he is the same as those artists who are floating in the capital, depressed, and have eaten the last meal and the next meal.

He painted more than 900 works in his life, but none of them were recognized when he was alive, and the reason why this happened was also related to the man's excessive literary temperament and neuroticism.

In fact, at that time, he was also well-known in the painting world, but not because of his artistic talent, but because he was notoriously neurotic.

It is precisely because of this that his paintings are even less recognized by people, and people think that he is a madman, what good works can a madman paint?

As a result, not only were people reluctant to buy his paintings, but many other wealthy people who loved art were also willing to sponsor him.

In this way, Van Gogh became more and more sensitive and inferior, and in his life, the only supporter who supported him unchanged was his younger brother, and even for most of his life, he relied on his brother's funding to survive.

Up to now, people have spoken highly of Van Gogh's works, but the highest evaluation is his painting "Sunflowers", until now, people have clearly confirmed that Van Gogh created a total of 11 or 14 "Sunflowers" in his lifetime.

And the reason why he painted so many "Sunflowers" was because he once met the famous artists in the art world at that time, Gauguin and Cézanne, and all three of them belonged to the founders of Impressionist oil painting, so they had a lot of common topics.

Especially Gauguin, in front of Van Gogh, praised his painting "Sunflowers", which made the friendship between him and Gauguin immediately become hot.

You must know that Van Gogh had painted most of his life at that time, but he had never been recognized, and Gauguin, who had become famous at this time, actually said that his painting of "Sunflowers" was very beautiful, which made Van Gogh even more ecstatic.

He was already inferior and sensitive, but for the first time in his life, he was recognized by others, which made him feel that he had found his purpose in life again.

Later, he invited Gauguin to his rented house as a guest, and before Gauguin came to his house as a guest, he frantically painted more than a dozen "Sunflowers", it is said that when Gauguin came to his house, he found that Van Gogh's room was almost full of "Sunflowers", which made Gauguin also very moved.

It's just that there is no good result between him and Gauguin.

The reason, the official history records in history is because the two had a disagreement in artistic creation, so they later parted ways, and the separation from Gauguin hit Van Gogh a lot, and he has not been able to come out of the grief of losing his best friend, so it didn't take long for him to commit suicide.

But in fact, there are many other gossips about the 'friendship' between him and Gauguin in history.

One of the most reliable is that in the upper class society of Western Europe at that time, it was actually very popular, and the habit of breaking sleeves was already very popular, and Gauguin at that time was a two-way plug.

Not long after knowing Van Gogh, the two got along, but later Gauguin soon found that he couldn't stand Van Gogh's inferiority complex and sensitive character, so the two had a fierce quarrel, and finally Gauguin proposed to break up with Van Gogh.

And Van Gogh, who finally found a person who understood himself, of course he was unwilling, so there was a dispute, in which Gauguin lost his hand and went back to cutting off half of Van Gogh's ear.

Later, Van Gogh said that this half of the ear was accidentally cut off by himself......

In short, the lace news between the two has been in Europe for many years, especially after Van Gogh's death, after the value of his works was discovered by others, and his reputation gradually grew, the relationship between him and Gauguin in the art world was even more uproarious, and there were even many gossips who specialized in studying the history of the two.

After breaking up with Gauguin, Van Gogh's life fell into a low ebb, and although he painted a lot of paintings after that, not many people were willing to recognize his work.

In his lifetime, he created more than 900 works, but only one was sold.

It was a few months before his suicide, a female painter in Belgium, Anna. Boch painted four hundred francs and bought one of his paintings entitled "The Red Vineyard".

After that, within a few months, Van Gogh committed suicide with a gun, and after he committed suicide, many of his paintings were taken away, because Van Gogh owed them money during his lifetime, so his works were scattered all over the world.

Later, after Gauguin and Cézanne, another French impressionist painting master Monet suddenly rose, and people realized the value of Van Gogh's works at this time, and Van Gogh's works began to enter the attention of the art public.

And now, his paintings can be sold for tens of millions of dollars casually, but Van Gogh himself has not been able to enjoy any benefits, and he can only be regarded as an out-and-out cup.

Speaking of Japanese and Van Gogh, there are also inextricable links.

As early as the 1920s of the last century, Van Gogh's works were already famous all over the world and were highly praised in the art world.

At that time, there were people in Japan who went to Europe and bought an original copy of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at an auction, and brought it back to Japan and put it on display in a museum.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and during World War II, because of the indiscriminate bombing by the Americans, this masterpiece was directly destroyed by the bombing of the US military.

However, after that, the Japanese still did not give up on Van Gogh's works, and they sold Van Gogh's works at auctions around the world several times.

Later, in 1987, at a Christie's auction in London, a Japanese insurance company at the time, Yasuda Water Fire Insurance Company, spent 22.5 million pounds to buy another painting of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".

In 1987, 22.5 million pounds, according to the exchange rate, could be exchanged for more than 37 million US dollars at that time, if you put it now, take into account inflation, and the factors of the excessive dollar in recent years, then the value of this painting is definitely more than 100 million.

And Japan's Yasuda Water Fire Insurance Company, because of the success of this auction, was famous in the international market, and was recognized by many large international companies, and after that, received a lot of international orders.

After that, the Japanese company also admitted that the main reason why they were willing to spend so much money to buy this famous Van Gogh painting was to advertise themselves internationally.

The company's advertising strategy proved to be quite successful, and since then they have become an internationally renowned insurance company.

However, as the saying goes, what you gain must lose, and after they made a name for themselves internationally by bidding for this famous painting, Japan soon fell into a major economic crisis because of the entry into force of the Plaza Accord.

The yen has risen sharply, and the real estate bubble in Japan has burst, so that many of the artworks they bought from Europe and the United States have also depreciated rapidly.

In 1990, someone once gave them the stock price of the Van Gogh painting they bought that year, and after taking into account the international economic environment and the art market environment at that time, the appraisal agency at that time made a valuation of the Van Gogh sunflowers they bought, which depreciated by at least 60 percent......

After receiving that assessment, the Yasuda Water Fire Insurance Company, of course, was disappointed, so it took the "Sunflower" out of their head office building, and later it was said that because of the economic crisis, it was also sold to someone else, although I don't know who the buyer was, but it is certain that the painting has been in Japan. (To be continued.) )