Both auction houses have long been prestigious, and over the course of more than two hundred years, Sotheby's has gradually established itself as a leading player in the international antiques and art market.

Sotheby's large-scale expansion was also after World War II, when the international art market gradually took shape. Sotheby's also went global, and gradually monopolized the international market for important works of art. In the early sixties, Sotheby's entered the United States and established the first international auction house in the United States. In the 70s, Sotheby's successively promoted the auction business to international cities all over the world, and set up offices in major cities around the world to collect artworks from all over the world, gradually forming the pattern and norms of international art auctions.

By the end of the fifties, Sotheby's had an annual turnover of just over £6 million, and by 1980 it had reached hundreds of millions of pounds. It is worthy of being NO.1, and the rapid development is staggering. On the other hand, the economic take-off has created a large number of wealthy people to decorate the façade, eager to get rid of the suspicion of nouveau riche.

Christie's is also known as Christie's Auction House, one of the world's leading art auction houses. The lot brings together rare works of art, watches, jewelry, automobiles and wines from around the world. Today, Christie's has offices in 90 major cities around the world and regular auctions in 16 locations around the world.

As one of the international art trading centres, the Hong Kong market is more inclusive. Its huge market growth potential has attracted many auction houses to hold auctions in Hong Kong, and the modern and contemporary art market is a highly promising segment of the Hong Kong market. It is also loved by auction houses.

The auction venue is located in the hotel showroom of the Mandarin Hotel.

The Mandarin Hotel is located on Connaught Road, Central, a prestigious five-star hotel regarded as a "Central Landmark" with views of Victoria Harbour. Since its opening, the hotel has maintained the British tradition, from the decoration of the lobby, oil paintings to the charcoal grill in the steakhouse, and the hotel has won many world-class awards for its luxurious service.

There are countless international celebrities who have stayed in the hotel's luxurious rooms, and today's auction will naturally invite Hong Kong's rich celebrities because they want to give generously! How can it be done without the 'God of Wealth'!

However, not all of these people are antique collectors, many of them come with the intention of making connections, and some want to take the opportunity to show off their financial resources. Show off. But anyway. When Fang Monan and the others arrived at the venue, the exhibition hall was full of handshakes and greetings, and the exhibits in the glass display case pointed at each other and complimented each other.

In fact, Han Zhiqian has already obtained the album of today's auction, which has clear pictures on it. and the introduction of the lot. For buyers, you can see in advance if there is anything you like.

Today, all the men are on the move, including Yuan Zhaoying and He Junyao. The women took their children to Ocean Park to play. Except for Fang Monan and He Shuhui. With children, women are not very free.

The exhibition hall is resplendent and displays many of the famous collections included in this exhibition. There are antiques, jade, calligraphy and paintings, etc. Placed in isolation for visitors to enjoy, the objects have been on display here for three days and will be put up for auction this evening.

In the early 90s, although the global economy began to enter an economic downturn. But Sotheby's already knew how to manage the boom cycle of the art market by this time, and had already seen several ups and downs. It's a good business, especially in the late '80s, and it seems like anything can happen. In the last few years, auction prices have climbed to unimaginable levels. For this reason, the auction industry has also attracted unprecedented attention from the global media. In 1989, Sotheby's sold impressionist and modern art in New York and London for a total value of $1.1 billion.

It must be said that Sotheby's has a set of operations, no matter what the real economy is, people have their own set of magic weapons for survival.

Fang Monan: They came early, so they were in the exhibition hall, acting separately, to see these art treasures.

Compared with men with wives who went to see jewelry and jade, Fang Monan, Han Zhiqian, He Junyao and Yuan Zhaoying went to the calligraphy, painting and porcelain area.

In the calligraphy and painting area, most of them are contemporary Chinese paintings, including Zhang Daqian's "Qingcheng Mountain", Qi Baishi's "Four Seasons of Birds", "Loquat Dragonfly", Wu Changshuo's "Red Plum" vertical scroll, Zhang Daqian's "Beiyuan Mountain Temple Floating Clouds" vertical scroll, "Shuzhong Mountain Color" vertical scroll, "Green Landscape" vertical scroll, Xu Beihong's "Double Horse Picture" vertical scroll, "Running Horse" vertical scroll, Yang Shanshen's "Five Tiger Pictures", Gao Qifeng's "Hengtang Chunxiao Painting Collection" 12 albums, Qi Baishi's "Dove of Peace" vertical scroll.

Han Zhiqian looked at Fang Monan staring at the contemporary paintings, "Why is Nannan interested in the contemporary, there are several good works by Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty and Tang Bohu in the field over there, which have good collection value." ”

Fang Monan shook his head, "Ah Qian, don't you think these are very cheap!" ”

"Cheap!" The fat man shook his head busily and said, "Although there is only one starting price of more than one million, the other lowest ones are more than 500,000 yuan, which is still called cheap." He added, "If I'm not afraid of your jokes, how much juice and instant noodles do I have to buy to afford this painting." ”

Han Zhiqian unceremoniously knocked the fat man with a chestnut, "Vulgar!" ”

"I'm a layman myself." The fat man touched his head, "Huh! Look at which one of them is a gentleman, maybe he is more vulgar than me! ”

Han Zhiqian shook his head and smiled, "You are really a sincere person." Turning his head to look at Fang Monan and raising his eyebrows, he looked like he was willing to hear about it.

"Look at the auction and transaction prices of their paintings by the little devils of the same period." Fang Monan said with a smile.

Han Zhiqian rubbed his chin and narrowed his eyes, "What Nannan said makes sense, compared with the same period of the little devil, our contemporary painters are simply the price of cabbage." He paused and continued, "Yes! Not to mention its own artistic value, it is a good choice in terms of ROI alone. ”

This is also for a reason, one is that the economic development speed of the little devil is staggering, people are rich, and their enthusiasm for art is naturally high, and the price is high! Naturally, the rising tide lifts all boats.

And Huaxia, hehe...... The goal set is to quadruple the per capita gross national product (GDP) compared with 1980 by the end of this century, while China's population will increase by about 300 million compared with 1980 million, and "basically eliminate poverty and bring the people's living standards to a moderately prosperous level."

Cang Liao knows etiquette, knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing, and has the heart to improve his spiritual pursuit when he is full of food and clothing. In later generations, the auction price set a new record, which also reflected that a few people have become rich.

"The great artist of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Wen Zhengming's pine gully Gao Yi picture." Han Zhiqian stepped forward quickly and looked at a calligraphy and painting hanging on the wall. Style: Xiaoyan returns to the pond Ququtong, a stream of cold seze and pine wind. Busy seeing that the painting has just been born, Ande is as idle as in the painting. Signs. Seal: "徵" and "Ming" (Zhu Wenlian Zhu Yin) "tsk...... Good stuff! Han Zhiqian clasped his hands, his face was full of admiration, and he looked up and down, and said in his mouth, yes, yes.

"Like it so much?" Fang Monan looked at his excited appearance, stepped forward to look at the starting price, two million, "Hmm! It's really not expensive. If you like it, buy it! ”

Wen Zhengming's pen always has a clear atmosphere that does not eat the fireworks of the world, the grid is high and the rhyme is victorious, and the pen is beautiful.

The axis of "Song Gully Gaoyi Map" is a landscape work of Wen Zhengming's shallow brushwork, the scenery of this picture is complex, the mountains overlap, the clouds between the mountains are rising, and the waterfalls and springs are layered to form a stream. The pine and cypress trees are dense between the mountain and stone slopes, the lofty building, the cottage, the courtyard, the water pavilion are located on the foothill platform, the pine shade is sandwiched between the streams, one person sits on the stone and watches the waterfall, two people stroll in Berlin, and one person looks at the mountain scenery in the water pavilion. It is a high and deep artistic conception, showing the elegant taste of the literati in the mountains and forests.

Wen Zhengming's paintings are good at landscapes, orchids, bamboos, figures, flowers, and especially fine landscapes. Most of his paintings depict the courtyards of lakes and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River and the life of the literati, with a stable layout and a long brushwork. In the early years, the painting style was meticulous, the middle age was rough, the later years were mellow, and the thickness was both, and the thick brush was precious, which was called "coarse writing".

This picture of pine ravines is made in his later years, the brushwork of this picture is meticulous, the outline of mountains and rocks is meticulous, and the short brush is draped with linen and raindrops to rub the texture, and the ink color is light. The pine and cypress miscellaneous trees are hooked and dotted with leaves, and the leaves are carefully and carefully, and the pen is more delicate and delicate.

The slopes of the map, Gangfu, and the mountains are stacked with high and deep mountains from near and far, and through the winding streams, they form the corresponding horns and twists and turns of the flow between the shapes. The tall trees on the slopes and foothills not only connect the scenery before and after, but also enhance the sense of depth of spatial distance. This composition, in which mountains and mountains are stacked upwards, is intended to enhance the flat decorative effect of landscape painting, while at the same time visually not losing a deep sense of space.

"It's worth collecting." Fang Monan commented pertinently.

In the appreciation of these works of art, Fang Monan is naturally not as proficient as Han Zhiqian, and he is the Tao. However, her eyesight is incomparable to that of mortals, and judging the truth and falsehood can be decided by the eyes of the sky alone.

However, in terms of appreciation, the various antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the space are not the same. In particular, the paintings and calligraphy in the space should have been burned or sunk to the bottom of the river with history, and these are the world's famous works collected by emperors for generations.

are all taken into the space in one go, but unfortunately it is difficult to see the light of day.

"These are genuine works." The fat man asked with round eyes.

"What kind of stupid thing to say, if it's fake, don't smash your own signboard!" Han Zhiqian patted the fat man on the shoulder and said.

Of course, these appraisers cannot guarantee that all the lots are genuine, and when the tiger is still napping, let alone people's eyesight.

Of course, the auction house is not responsible for the identification of things, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of antiques, and the auction house can not do the fidelity, nor can it afford to do the fidelity, the reason why it is exhibited before the auction is for the enthusiasts to personally identify the authenticity, if the eagle is hit in the eye, they can only consider themselves unlucky. This is really a blessing for the buyer. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please read it on m.qidian.com. )