Chapter 103: Pit Daddy!

"Why does Brother Wang have time to come to the exhibition today?"

Wang Jiansen shook his head and said with a smile: "If it were someone else, I would definitely not come, but this is Picasso, brother, I have been collecting Picasso for a few years, without your Zhang Daqian, the most expensive painting is his two children, which cost me more than 200 million!" ”

The organizer is the international collector Ullens and a well-known real estate developer, claiming that 83 original Picasso works from 8 famous collectors in 5 countries, covering the entire creative cycle of the morning, middle and evening, the art form spans oil painting, printmaking, drawing, manuscript, sculpture, ceramics five major art fields. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Wang Jiansen said with rare expectations: "From the beginning of April, the media was promoting investment, to the press conference on April 8, to the opening on May 28, hundreds of media were mobilized to bomb in turn, and propaganda was spread across the country. ”

The organizers even adopted the countdown invitation of celebrities and celebrities in the literary and artistic circles to stimulate everyone's adrenaline. At the grand opening scene, a well-known CCTV host and national first-class actor served as the host, and other well-known stars helped, the scene was hot, and a deputy director of the National Museum of China and a Chinese curator delivered a speech on the spot......"

A well-known university scholar, who is said to be the Chinese curator of this exhibition, said in an interview with the media, "For ordinary people, this exhibition is a special benefit." "Even the Counsellor of the Italian Embassy and the Ambassador of the Spanish Embassy to China came to cheer for the event."

While the two of them walked, looking at the bustling crowd of visitors, Wang Jiansen said with deep feelings: "Don't say anything else, in the future, we will have museums and learn from other people's all-round methods, which is absolutely shocking." ”

Wang Jiansen is a top VIP everywhere, so he directly entered the exhibition hall in advance through a special channel, looked at his beloved works, and quickly studied them.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't have any research on Picasso, so he walked around idlely, looking at Wang Jiansen's increasingly gloomy face and asked curiously, "Is there a problem?" ”

"Hmph, what a cheat, what kind of bullshit is this!"

Wang Jiansen couldn't suppress his anger and said loudly: "The propaganda shows a total of 83 authentic works, worth 1 billion euros, how much is 1 billion euros?" 7 billion RMB! ”

"I can't guarantee anything else, Picasso and my old Wang have also studied for more than ten years, and I have visited many major museums around the world. There are also more than a dozen genuine handiworks in my hand, and I still have the vision. ”

He pointed to the painting in front of him with his hand and reprimanded: "Two Nude Men, 1897, oil on canvas, private collection, unfinished work and without Picasso's signature." It is rumored to be his 16-year-old work, assuming that this work is really his, at that time he had just entered the Royal San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, as his study during his school years, just like the nude study we painted in the freshman year of the Academy of Fine Arts today, and he was not willing to change the cloth in the state of unfinished, and painted a nude man next to him. It does not appear in any professional literature, in the market, in public places, in external publications or in materials about Picasso, perhaps, but I have not found it so far. ”

"There are five other such paintings, all of which are marked as private collections, among which the oil painting "Musketeers" is very strange, and the propaganda label indicates that the work was from 1964, the Museum of Modern Art, and the collection of Langardo Zola Predosa, why is it written on the wall next to it that it is treasured by a private collector?"

Also vividly written on the wall are the interpretation of the stage characters based on the nineteenth-century novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas. However, Picasso is credited with reading Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers while he was hospitalized for surgery in 1965. Could it be that musketeers also play crossing? ”

"You see there's also this garbage, Tara Modern Art Studio Milan, offering 15 pieces. The art company, Pesaro, offers 21 pieces. In fact, these two companies are equivalent to rental companies, they have a lot of artists' works, and whose exhibitions you want to do can be rented from them, it's that simple! ”

"Won't it?" Xu Zhiyuan was also a little surprised after hearing this, this exhibition was not held by the great collector Ullens? That's a hot celebrity in the art world now, and he will fool people?

The more Wang Jiansen looked at it, the more angry he became, and pulled Xu Zhiyuan to the so-called Picasso printmaking exhibition area, and casually pointed to a painting and said: "Look at this print "Funny Actor", according to the international market estimate, it is about 5,000-7,000 US dollars with a signature and plate number, and I will count it as a transaction price of 6,250 US dollars. ”

"The Waiting was sold for 3,500 euros for the signed and numbered painting, $295 for the unsigned and unnumbered painting on Amazon, and the one in this exhibition is signed and unnumbered. In 2014, a limited edition of "Mother and Son" was estimated at 20,000 euros, but unfortunately it was unsold. ”

Wang Jiansen said: "I put out uncalm speculation, and calculate the price according to the normal auction price of about 3,000-5,500 euros with signatures and edition numbers, and calculate all prints according to the price with signatures and edition numbers, that is, 198,000 euros." ”

"In the same way, you will be given 35 pieces of pottery at a maximum price of 120,000 euros each, but only 4.2 million euros. You blow a billion euros of works, I wonder how it is calculated? ”

"Brother, don't call me hypocritical! I had my subordinates check the quotations of these two art companies, and at that time the Guastala Art Studio gave me an ideal price, they had 15 Picasso works, and they rented them for 2 months for 12,000 euros, of course, this is only the rent, not including shipping and insurance. ”

At the same time, they also clearly marked on the front page of their official website that they had rented 15 Picasso works to an art museum in Beijing for exhibition.

"The Pesaro official website is under maintenance, but I still have a schedule of all its works and rental fees. The number of pottery works in this exhibition is 40 pieces, and the insurance cost is 750,000 euros, so it can be seen that the estimated value of these 40 pieces of pottery is about 750,000 euros. ”

"All the prints are rented from two companies that specialize in the so-called Picasso works, the Guastala Moderne Art Studio, which offers 15 pieces. Pesaro, 21 pieces offered. All the pottery is also rented from one of the companies, with Pesaro offering 40 pieces. All photographs are rented from two photographer archives. Of the 89 items advertised, only 5 so-called "original works" remained, and I think they are all fake paintings! ”

Xu Zhiyuan is also drunk, the dignified chairman of Wanda, how can he expose people's old secrets like this? Puzzled: "Could it be that Ullens doesn't even have this vision?" ”

"Shit Ullens!" Wang Jiansen laughed angrily: "That foreigner who is covered in copper stench is an international speculator who eats people and does not spit out bones!" ”

Mr. and Mrs. Ullens Baron Ullens ran the family business for more than 40 years before retiring from business in 2000 to pursue cultural activities with his wife. He currently serves on the board of directors of many museums and art centres such as the Kuman Oriental Art Museum and the Tate Gallery in the UK.

Especially in recent years, they have been particularly cared for by art journalists. First of all, at the beginning of the year, it was reported that they had sent a batch of works by the British landscape painter Turner, worth tens of millions of pounds, to Christie's for auction, and the estimate of tens of millions of pounds shook for a while.

Then they built a large contemporary art museum in Beijing, the Ullens Art Center, which opened in November last year, and it can't help but make them a center of conversation, especially in today's boom in contemporary art collecting in China.