"Hey! Wake up, what's wrong with you, shopkeeper Gao. Hong Jincai saw him standing there stupidly for a long time, thinking that something had happened to him, and hurriedly came over and patted him on the shoulder and asked.

"It's okay, it's okay. I was just stunned when I thought about it just now. Gao Hongsheng explained excitedly.

"Lin Daiyu, the Van Gogh works you acquired are there, I want to take a look." As soon as he came to his senses, Gao Hongsheng began to be busy again.

Lin Daiyu hurriedly patrolled along the wall, and after a while, she found the five works in a pile of oil paintings leaning against the wall, and waved her hand at Gao Hongsheng and shouted: "Here, you come and see, I'm not sure if it's true." ”

Gao Hongsheng hurriedly ran over, and the others followed as if they were having fun, and Lin Daiyu carefully turned one of them around and placed it at Gao Hongsheng. ，

On the picture, a man with golden hair, a golden beard with sideburns, and a pointed monkey cheek is looking at Gao Hongsheng standing in front of the frame from the picture.

Gao Hongsheng can see at a glance that this is Van Gogh's self-portrait, it can't be wrong, the thin pointed chin, melancholy eyes, and frowning brows, there is no such sadness as the painter would depict his situation, only Van Gogh.

The tragic consciousness and strong personality contained in the painting, as well as the unique pursuit of form, all the forms of Qiē are violently jumping and writhing in this picture.

A room full of people stared at the painting silently, and people were attracted by the sad and angry color in the picture, but this painting did not have his famous "Self-Portrait with Cut Ears" madness, and there was still a hint of reason shining in it.

"Yes, yes, Lin Daiyu, you are really amazing, this is Van Gogh's work, how did you get it?" Gao Hongsheng asked curiously.

"His paintings are not easy to find, mainly because no one has his works, this person seems to be too unknown, even a lot of dealers don't know who he is, and finally I found these paintings from a dealer named Cole, but there is not even a frame, I paid them to help them put the frames, and I also ordered a lot of oil paintings from him, and today I only sent the first batch, and tomorrow there will be a large number. Hee-hee, his paintings are really cheap, the most expensive is only 3,000 francs, and the one you see seems to be only 800 francs. ”

Gao Hongsheng looked at this woman who invited merit with a hellish expression, good luck is really unstoppable, eight hundred francs, oh my God! In later generations, the famous paintings that cost tens of millions of dollars turned out to be only 800 francs, you are really declining, you have been dead for so many years, why haven't those people discovered your value.

Except for the first one, which is his self-portrait, the other four are basically a few of the "Saint-Rémy", although not too famous, but his paintings have never been cheap, and basically went to the auction house for more than tens of millions of dollars.

After reviewing his paintings again, Gao Hongsheng covered up the ecstasy in his heart with satisfaction, and tried his best to pretend to be indifferent and said to Lin Daiyu: "You continue to buy his paintings, don't care what the price is, don't care when they were painted, even if it's a thin line he painted casually, you have to buy it, these stupid Parisians, they will regret it after a hundred years, Lin Daiyu, do you want to be a strange woman who will leave a name in history?" You can buy them according to the list I gave you, buy all their paintings into our hands, and in the future we will build an art museum, so that these foreign devils can come all the way to worship us. Haha, what do you want to do! ”

"Do you mean the list of painters you gave me? But shopkeeper high, these people's paintings are worthless, you know? Everyone else's paintings cost tens of thousands of francs, or even hundreds of thousands of francs, but the highest of the people on the list you give is only six thousand francs, and there are several whose works can be bought for a few hundred francs, are you sure? Lin Daiyu asked with some suspicion.

This is mainly the relationship between the mainstream and the non-mainstream, those works that cost tens of thousands of francs at every turn basically belonged to the mainstream products at that time, and the painters on Gao Hongsheng's list provided to her can be called maverick non-mainstream.

In the nineteenth century, the price of a painting by Ingres, a French neoclassical chess player, was basically between tens of thousands of francs, and the painters on Gao Hongsheng's list, Van Gogh, let's not talk about it, his life was a tragedy. Don't mention Gauguin, and finally exiled himself to a desert island, Miller, the pioneer of realism, made those small oil paintings in the village of Barbizon, but due to economic constraints, he did not have the money to buy enough oil painting materials, often in the countryside to use local materials, and even sometimes even more sketches, but after his death, he could not do it, and later France spent 800,000 francs to redeem one of his works.

Even Monet, who is still alive now, is only a little better, and he finally does not have to worry about canvases and dyes, because after 1880 his paintings were finally bought, and it was no longer to the point where he could not sell a single painting at an exhibition, but the price was only between 1,000 and 3,000 francs, so that he could afford to buy his house in the small town of Giverny, 80 kilometers from Paris, and lived there for forty-three years, and built the small garden and water garden in front of his house with his own hands. Here, Monet created many masterpieces on the theme of his garden and water garden.

The prolific Renoir also began to transshipment after 1880, and his painting Madame Charles and her children was well received, for which he received an honorarium of 1,000 francs, which was like nectar from heaven in his poverty, and his life changed for the better.

The most famous of these lists is Camille Pissarro, the most famous and staunch master of Impressionism, the forerunner of Impressionism, who was only lifted out of poverty in his later years, but his good fortune was due to the rise of his patrons, which changed his life.

The primitivist painter Rousseau, who was also highlighted by Gao Hongsheng, was just a "customs officer" who enjoyed a pension. "Rousseau's character is almost always described with reference to his simplicity and naivety, but in that era he was ridiculed from all directions, in addition to poverty, accompanied him almost all his life.

This is the situation faced by the maverick painters of the nineteenth century, ridicule, belittlement, suppression, denigration, abuse, etc., negative things are pouring in, and it is strange that the prices of the works of the pioneers who want to destroy the tradition can be high in this era.

But Gao Hongsheng likes it like this, so that he can spend the least amount of money to collect those famous paintings, and he has no heart to continue to appreciate the remaining oil paintings, anyway, they are all his goods, and he can enjoy them slowly when he is free.

Raised his head and looked at Lin Daiyu and said with a smile: "Don't care what those art dealers say, you just buy according to the list I provided you, buy hard, those short-sighted guys don't know what art is, they are just a bunch of idiots parasitic on the aristocracy, don't pay attention to their recommendations, don't pay attention to them, don't be deceived by their rhetoric, they don't know what art is at all." ”

"What's so beautiful about these broken paintings, I really don't know what you're going to do as a shopkeeper? Okay, if you ask me to buy it, I'll buy it, but I really bought some of the oil paintings they recommend, that's the ones I saw in your album, but they were a little different from the ones in your album, and I didn't buy more, just more than 30 pieces. Where are they? Don't you take a look? Lin Daiyu asked with a red face, pointing to some oil paintings on the other side of the room.

Gao Hongsheng followed her gaze, although it was far away, the naked art on the picture was still clearly visible, and it was also the place where the little minions and Feng Laosi gathered just now.

The paintings recommended by those dealers are all neoclassical paintings, and those are not within the scope of Gao Hongsheng's key acquisitions, but it doesn't matter if he brings them, he walked over and glanced at it, and then said to Lin Daiyu: "This style of painting will buy less in the future, it's useless, you mainly keep an eye on the works of the painters on the list I gave you, no matter what the price is, as long as you meet it, you must get it, the day after tomorrow, you go with me to meet a painter, Monet." ”

"By the way, Albert, you come here, now go out and send a telegram to Jin Xiaobao, so that she will arrive in Paris tomorrow no matter what, remember to let her bring her maids with her, especially the four treasures of the study, and we will collectively meet the greatest artist of this era, Monet, the day after tomorrow."

"John, has your broken house been repaired?"

"It's coming, it's about three more days. Shopkeeper's. ”

"Okay, speed up, we don't have time to delay, be quick, understand! Don't be afraid to spend money, tip a little more, let them finish it quickly, a broken house has been cleaned up for more than a week, why is it not finished. You hold on. Gao Hongsheng was a little dissatisfied with the speed of repair, put a burden on John, and when he saw that he was about to explain, he waved his hand and stuffed his words back.

Turning his head to Brooke, he said: "Brooke, your life is here, tomorrow you will go to find Van Gogh's relatives, I remember that it seems that he has a younger brother named Theo, etc., Brooke I am a little messy, you let me think about it." ”

According to records, Van Gogh's Ditio, also died shortly after Van Gogh's death.

Van Gogh's work was compiled by Theo's wife, Joyna, and if it weren't for Joyna's efforts after the death of his Van Gogh brothers, Van Gogh's paintings would not have been known to the world at all, and Joyna would have had the fourth of the most famous "Sunflowers" series in her hands.

Joanna was a great woman, and her husband was Van Gogh's brother Theo, who also died in grief six months after Van Gogh's death, at the age of thirty-three. The doctor concluded that "excessive tension and lament were the cause of death."

As Theo's wife, Joanna inherited the mountains of paintings and drawings that Theo left her, the hundreds of letters Van Gogh wrote to Theo, and her young son (Vincent William van Gogh, who had the same name and surname as Van Gogh).

Joanna was not very familiar with Van Gogh, but when she read Van Gogh's letters, she was deeply touched and deeply attracted by Van Gogh's life and creation.

Since then, Joanna has worked diligently and intelligently to make Van Gogh known to the world step by step, and she often lends Van Gogh's works to exhibitions to increase people's understanding of Van Gogh.

At the same time, she compiled six hundred and fifty-two letters into three volumes of letters, which also began to attract attention until 1914, when three volumes of Van Gogh's letters were published in Amsterdam (the German version was also published), and later these collections were translated into several languages, and Van Gogh became known to people all over the world.

Now no one in the world really understands who Van Gogh is, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity appears in front of his eyes, Van Gogh's family should be in Paris at this time, God!

Thinking of this, he held back the ecstasy in his heart and looked at Brooke and said: "Van Gogh's family is in Paris, you can ask the dealers tomorrow, Theo, he is a painter and a dealer, he should be able to find out, find them, be sure to find them." ”

Gao Hongsheng finally waved his fist and shouted at Brooke, and then he rushed to the edge of the table, flipped through a folder, followed him to grab a pen and write Theo's full name in French on a piece of white paper, followed a few steps to Brooke and stuffed the note in his hand and said to him: "This is Theo's full name, in French, you go to find it, you must find Van Gogh's family, whether we can make a fortune depends on you."

If you can sell it to you, you can buy unlimited purchases, regardless of the price, 10,000 pounds a piece, 100,000 pounds a piece, 100,000 dollars, you just need to buy it, I want you to buy all the qiē related to Van Gogh, if they don't like the trouble, let them move, I will pay a million pounds. No, two million pounds, we only have so much, two million pounds, buy all the qiē about Van Gogh. ”

In fact, Gao Hongsheng didn't have two million pounds at all, and they couldn't get it until they sold all the medicines, but this didn't delay Gao Hongsheng from taking a gamble.

Gao Hongsheng, who is like a madman, was about to be shocked by the sudden good luck, fortunately, he still knew that he could raise up to two million pounds, but even this his actions scared everyone in the room, two million pounds to buy all the works of an unknown painter, God knew whether their high shopkeeper was crazy or not.