Looking carefully at this picture of two ladies, Han Peacock can glimpse from the picture, the author's aesthetic taste for ladies, this picture is rigorous with a pen, and the hook of the character lines is more smooth and free, which is the best work with a clear and beautiful style.

Looking at the pictures of ladies with different styles, different painting styles, and very coherent painting skills, Han Peacock was messy in the wind.

He can see that these fourteen paintings must have come from the hands of one person, and the characters in the paintings are also drawn with a beautiful woman as a model.

Han Peacock carefully inspected the inscriptions and seals of the fourteen paintings, and then carefully looked at the frames of the fourteen paintings, and found that these fourteen paintings, whether they were signed or sealed, or even framed, were all made by one person.

If you only look at the picture of the lady in the whole painting, there is no problem at all, but if you look closely at the place where the payment is made, how to look at it feels a little inconsistent.

Seeing Han Peacock staring at the place where the money was put in a daze, that place couldn't stand scrutiny, even if he didn't have much eyesight, he could see that there seemed to be some camouflage, in case this Ren Bonian's money was forged by someone else, then this painting would not be easy to sell.

Fortunately, there was really nothing to say about the ladies in these paintings, so he had the confidence to sell them for a high price, but Chen Qian was still afraid of long nights and dreams, so he hurriedly interrupted Han Peacock's contemplation and said, "Mr. Han doesn't have any problems, right?" How good do you think these ladies paint? ”

Chen Qian once again attracted Han Peacock's attention to those ladies' pictures, these ladies' drawings are really good, such paintings. Definitely a masterpiece.

Thinking of this, Han Peacock was completely relieved, even if there was a problem with the money and seal, as long as there was no problem with the lady's picture, it would not be a big problem.

"Okay, I'll put away these fourteen paintings directly, and I'll immediately ask someone to transfer the money to you." Han Peacock put away the fourteen paintings and immediately started to transfer money.

Han Peacock is now a VIP of China Merchants Bank, and he has no restrictions on some large-amount transfers for ordinary people. So 13 million was transferred to the account provided by Chen Qian.

Wait for the message prompt of successful transfer to be sent. The deal is done.

Put the painting away and let Zhang Xiangyue look at it, Han Peacock said, "Boss Chen, since the transaction has been completed." Shall we have a meal together? We're in the hotel anyway. No need to run around anymore. ”

"I'm sorry Mr. Han. We're sorry we have something to do, something urgent. We will invite you if you have a chance in the future, you see" Chen Qian unceremoniously refused.

Han Peacock laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you guys have to do something." ”

After sending Chen Qian away, Han Peacock's face sank.

"What's wrong, big brother? Is there something wrong with the painting? Han Xing, who didn't say a word from beginning to end, asked a little worriedly after seeing Han Peacock's expression.

"There are some problems, but it's not a big problem, but I never thought about it, what the problem is." Han Peacock motioned for Zhang Xiangyue to take out a painting again to look at.

"I don't see anything wrong. These ladies are very well drawn! Han Xing looked at the charming lady, and felt that the painting was very exquisite, such paintings, some masters in modern times, there are few who can paint them, even if they copy, there are not many such a high level.

Han Peacock said: "Don't you think these ladies are too good at painting?" ”

"The drawing is too good?" Han Xing and Zhang Xiangyue were stunned, is it wrong to draw too well?

"Can such a painting really sell for more than a million yuan?" Zhang Xiangyue looked at the woman in the painting, and couldn't figure it out, just such a woman can sell for millions?

Han Peacock said: "It's definitely no problem to sell it for one million, but if you add publicity and some other expenses, you may not make a penny by selling one million, and if you add some flaws in the place where you keep the money, so that there is a controversial painting, it will affect the price, maybe 800,000 can't be sold." ”

"Huh? In this way, why didn't the eldest brother bargain with that Boss Chen more? Han Xing was very puzzled.

"If there's something wrong, why does the boss want to buy it?" Zhang Xiangyue was also puzzled.

Han Peacock said: "It's because of the flaws in the retention office and the painter of the painting." ”

Seeing the two of them, Han Peacock explained: "It's because the painting is so good, this kind of painting doesn't look like Ren Bonian's style, to be honest, I have seen a few pictures of Ren Bonian's ladies, but his level is not up to the level of these fourteen paintings, and there seems to be a problem with the framing of the retention office, which has to make people suspicious." ”

Han Xing asked in surprise: "Could it be that the eldest brother suspects that the payment for this painting has been faked?" ”

"It should be like this, yes, I just don't know now, if you remove the Ren Bonian model above, I don't know what kind of money is below." Han Peacock bets on the painter, since the painter is so exquisite, even if this painting is not Ren Bonian, it should not be an unknown person.

"Could it be that this is a painting that has not been signed?" Han Xing said.

Han Peacock said: "There should be no such possibility, if there is no money, there is no need to reframe it here, just stamp it with a forged seal." ”

"The concealed payment must not be as famous as Ren Bonian's painter, so wouldn't the price of this painting be lower?" Han Xing was even more puzzled, since Han Peacock knew that this was the case, why did he still spend a high price to buy these fourteen paintings?

Han Peacock said: "Not necessarily, you look at these fourteen paintings, can such paintings be painted by ordinary people?" Since you have the level of a master, you should get the status of a master.

Even if he wasn't famous before, with these fourteen paintings, no matter who he is, he will be famous in the future, and the skills of these paintings are here, which no one can erase, now let's see, which master's masterpiece this is. ”

"Big brother wants to unveil this painting and reframe it?" Han Xing asked.

Han Peacock said: "Well, only by removing this layer on the outside mounting can you see the payment below." ”

"Big brother, will you uncover it?" Han Xing asked.

Han Peacock said: "It will come, but it's just such a painting." I don't dare to expose it myself, so let's find a professional to do it! ”

After thinking about it for a while, Han Peacock called Fat Liu, I haven't seen him these days, so I just got in touch.

Fat Liu said quickly, and after he came, he saw the picture of the hairpin lady on the table at a glance: "I said, this is what you bought just now?" ”

"Well, I know who is more powerful in our demon capital, you see. This way. I suspect that there is a bell mark underneath that is deliberately covered. Han Peacock went straight to the point.

Fat Liu said with a smile: "You can be regarded as having found someone, my sister-in-law is a master in this area, her old man was originally a top expert in China, and she has been learning framing with her old man since she was a child." Now my eldest brother has two children. That's what museums do. ”

"What are you proud of? Your whole family is an expert in all walks of life. You won't know anything. Han Peacock couldn't look down on Fat Liu's smug appearance, so he naturally began to strike.

"What's this? No matter how powerful they are, they don't have as much money as I have now, and no matter how much knowledge they have in their heads. It can't be exchanged for money, and it's for nothing. Fat Liu said unashamedly.

"Okay, you ask your sister-in-law if she is free, let her help, I have fourteen such paintings in my hand, and I want to unveil them all once, I suspect that all of them have been faked." Han Peacock said.

Fat Liu said: "Let's go to my old man's studio!" There are all kinds of tools there, and my sister-in-law is probably in the studio right now. ”

Liu Shaoshan's studio is very chaotic, if you don't know, you may think you have walked into a counterfeiting den!

Looking at some messy bronzes and some copied inscriptions, this made Han Peacock very disappointed, this is the famous Bronze Research Institute in the Demon City?

"Disappointed, huh? I was also disappointed when I first came, but then I understood, you see, this is brass, this thing is twenty or thirty yuan a pound, if you don't look good, this thing is easy to lose.

You said that in such a place, if you really put some bronzes of Xia Shang Zhou, what will happen in the end? Therefore, if there is a good thing, it will be placed in the museum, and there is absolutely no real thing here, and there are important research topics, which are generally carried out in the museum. Fat Liu explained.

As soon as he walked into a house, Han Peacock saw Liu Shaoshan: "I heard that your little Han has received good things again?" ”

Han Peacock smiled: "I received a few paintings, but it seems to be a bit of a problem, isn't this here to ask for help?" ”

Liu Shaoshan said: "What help do you ask, help each other!" Take it out and take a look. ”

Those who study antiques actually have a wide range of knowledge, but the focus is different, and it can only be said that they are top experts on one side, and they may just be hobbies in other aspects.

Although Liu Shaoshan can't be ranked among the three mountains, his mountain is also very powerful in his professional field, Gao Dashan specializes in inscription and seal carving, and he is a bronze with inscriptions, if it weren't for the similarity of the two majors, he would not be overwhelmed by Gao Dashan.

It can be said that Mr. Liu Shaoshan's achievements in his professional field are no worse than those of Sanshan.

"I heard that yesterday you almost swollen their faces on the mountain?" While watching his eldest daughter-in-law fiddling with the painting, Liu Shaoshan said happily.

"Communicate, let's just communicate with each other, how dare I be more serious with those old men." Han Peacock said.

Liu Shaoshan said: "You are ruthless enough, I heard that even Wang Guishan's old thing's housekeeping treasure and lifeline have been won?" ”

"You're talking about that piece of jade plate?" Han Peacock asked with a smile.

"yes, that's it, it's a good thing, keep it safe! It will be enough to be a family heirloom in the future. Liu Shaoshan said.

Han Peacock smiled and didn't say anything more, he was already attracted by Fat Liu's sister-in-law's movements.

Zhang Shuping is indeed very professional, look at her methodically fiddling with the painting, although the movements are gentle, but you can see that she has a good mind, otherwise, there are really few people who dare to uncover the painting, you know, this careless, but you can destroy a masterpiece.

This time it is a painting, and the painting is a Chinese painting that has been framed, and due to various reasons (damage, moisture, etc.), it has to be re-framed.

First of all, the old painting is flattened, soaked with water, covered with some rice paper to make it wet evenly, after a period of time, the paper is lifted layer by layer with tweezers, and then re-framed and made up for the shortcomings of the original painting.

The left and upper right corners of this picture of a hairpin lady are all blank, accounting for nearly one-third of the entire picture.

In the blank space, it is Ren Bonian's retention and bell seal, and Zhang Shuping is moving from this side, if possible. It's easiest to just move this side.

If it's just a problem in one corner, the rest of the place can be left untouched, which saves time and preserves the painting as much as possible.

Just in the process of unpacking and washing step by step, something unexpected happened.

No abnormality was found during the washing, but in the process of applying the detoxifying liquid to the painting, the blank part of the picture was irregularly flooded with a few red colors, and there was a tendency to gradually spread.

Zhang Shuping immediately terminated the operation. Absorb moisture. Observe carefully.

Whether you are framing a new painting or revealing an old painting, the most feared color is "magenta", such as the magenta on the cheeks of the child in the Yangliu Youth painting, which is the most overcolored. There are several layers that can pass through several layers. Encountered. Be extra careful.

Obviously, the painting is full of magenta.

Now the pan is stopped, then. Where does the magenta come from, could it be that there is magenta underneath the covering?

Zhang Shuping looked around and looked at Han Peacock with a puzzled face, didn't he say that the bell mark was blocked below?

Han Peacock suddenly had a thought flashing through him, could it be that there is a painting under it? More than just a bell seal?

Han Peacock said his thoughts, Zhang Shuping no longer hesitated, she picked up the tweezers and tried to reveal it from a corner.

It was immediately confirmed: counting from top to bottom, there are five layers of paper, the first layer and the second layer are white paper, and the third layer is the heart paper of "Hairpin Lady", the fourth layer is its support paper, and the fifth layer is a very thick drawing paper.

Since the paper on it is just white paper, Zhang Shuping doesn't care about magenta, anyway, there are only money and bell seals on that white paper, these are already unwanted things, even if they are all polluted by magenta, it's nothing, so Zhang Shuping is still stuffy, but the boring time is as short as possible, so as to avoid flooding more and damaging the painting below.

Peel off the first piece of white paper, and you can already see the situation below, it seems that there is a flower underneath, so there will be magenta.

Reapply the new liquid and continue to stuff the second one, the second one is a piece of drawing paper, because the thick drawing paper is likely to block the infiltration of the medicinal power, and the next step is to remove the drawing paper.

As the uncovering work unfolds step by step, it proves that Zhang Shuping's approach is clever, she and he work in an orderly manner, calmly, and definitely has everyone's demeanor.

You know, this is a famous painting worth millions, if the operation is not good, it is easy to destroy, if there is no better psychological quality, I really dare not start.

The last step of the unveiling is the most exciting, the following inscription and seal are revealed little by little, the author's name is very familiar to us, and its popularity and skill are much higher than Ren Bonian.

Further down, a complete "Hairpin Lady" appeared in front of them!

Magenta is exactly what is on the peony flower in the upper right corner of the painting.

The bell seal and peony flower below are separated by a thick layer of drawing paper, which is precisely because the framer was worried about the color coming out.

Looking at the bell seal drawn by Chunchou, Han Peacock and others looked at each other.

"This is Zhang Daqian's picture of a lady?" Although Fat Liu doesn't know how to learn and don't know, he still knows how to paint this spring sorrow is the bell seal used by Zhang Daqian in his early years.

Zhang Daqian is good at painting, likes to paint lotus flowers and gongbi figures, unique, the characteristics of the paintings are obvious, and Qi Baishi has the reputation of "South Zhang and North Qi".

In the 50s of the 20th century, Zhang Daqian lived abroad, lived in Brazil for 17 years, and moved to Taiwan in 1976.

If these paintings are all Zhang Daqian's, then Han Peacock has really picked up a big leak this time.

A painting, maybe it may be a forgery, but with the second and third unveiled, everyone can already be sure that this is Zhang Daqian's picture of a lady.

Zhang Shuping pointed to a painting that had just been unveiled and said: "This is a picture of the plum blossom lady with round and square folded lines, showing the delicate and slender of the lady, and the plum blossom as the background is dyed with the boneless method, reflecting the elegance and beauty of the lady in a kind of fog, compared with the peony in the first picture, the plum blossom in this picture is not worse than that pair." ”

The picture of the two ladies unveiled, signed: "On the twelfth day of December in Yihai, Wumen Net Master Garden sat in the rain and wrote, and Zhang Zhan, a Daqian layman." ”

The year of Yihai is 1935, Zhang Daqian has become famous, and it is a very active stage, during this period he left a large number of poems, paintings.

There are also seals below: "Zhang Zhan's Seal, Daqian Jushi, Dafeng Hall, Modern Ring Body".

"You look at this picture, the Tang style is strong, this must be after the trip to Dunhuang in the early 40s of the 20th century, so that Daqian's artistic style has undergone great changes, and this kind of fine product has appeared." Liu Shaoshan Road.

"Zhang Daqian's paintings, why should they be covered up by Ren Bonian's payment?" Fat Liu asked everyone's doubts.

"If I'm not mistaken, these paintings should have been lost during the turbulent years, and this should be Zhang Daqian's paintings made with his ex-wife Yang Wanjun as a model, these paintings disappeared during the turbulent period, but I didn't expect them to be preserved like this.

As for why the man used Ren Bonian's money to cover up Zhang Daqian's money after getting these paintings, we have no way of investigating, and maybe one day, you will be able to understand the origin of the matter. Liu Shaoshan said.

After getting Liu Shaoshan's prompt, Han Peacock immediately realized that it was no wonder that he felt wrong at the first glance when he saw these paintings.

Ren Bonian has indeed made extraordinary achievements in portrait painting, but compared with Zhang Daqian, especially in the picture of ladies, Ren Bonian is really not good, so after Han Peacock saw the picture of a lady with such exquisite painting, he immediately began to doubt that this is a lot of Ren Bonian's works.

Therefore, he immediately discovered the abnormality of the place where the mark was left, but no one thought that what was hidden below was actually Zhang Daqian's bell seal. (To be continued......)