Chapter 017: A Guest from Afar
Wu Xueli sat in the co-pilot of the car, showing a sweet smile to the girl in the main driver, she grabbed the arm of the main driving girl, rubbed her head with her head, and said coquettishly: "Thank you so much, Sister Hua, if you didn't drive me, I really wouldn't be able to catch up!" ”
Wu Xueli is a staff member of the exhibition department of Yecheng Art Museum, and is responsible for contacting the owners of the exhibits, communicating with them, and arranging for their collections to be exhibited at the Yecheng Art Museum. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The work is also quite easy, Yecheng Art Museum is the largest art museum in the southeast region, and a large number of painters and artists send emails every day, hoping to exhibit their works at Yecheng Art Museum.
Wu Xueli's daily work is to get rid of these self-conscious applicants, and then find a few pleasing ones from a row of master works, contact the owner of the collection, and arrange the exhibition.
However, after Blood Rose stole Van Gogh's famous paintings from the Yecheng Art Museum a week ago, Wu Xueli's life became difficult, and a large number of collection owners asked to withdraw the collection, for fear that Blood Butterfly would steal their collection.
Although in Wu Xueli's opinion, these collections have no value in being stolen at all, but the Yecheng Art Museum is still empty, which makes the director angry and asks Wu Xueli to find a new collector as soon as possible and fill the museum as soon as possible.
These days, Wu Xueli is on the phone every day, she lowered her posture and aesthetics, and finally filled the exhibition hall almost, but now Yecheng Art Museum lacks a finale exhibit, which makes Wu Xueli lose a lot of hair these days, and the dark circles under her eyes have come out.
However, when Wu Xueli was playing a game in the toilet, she happened to see a piece of news, a Chinese American, claiming to own Adam Galloway's burned photographic masterpiece - "Sleeping Beauty", which made the headlines of major newspapers in the United States.
Wu Shirley immediately got up from the toilet, this Adam Galloway is the most famous photographer in the United States in recent years, but he is best known not for his work, but for his affair with the former first lady, Kinoshita Claire.
It is said that this Adam Galloway is handsome and chic, full of literary temperament, and the former president's wife, Kinoshita Claire, is a college classmate, and the two fell in love in college.
When Vice President Kinoshita was running for president, the charming Mrs. Kinoshita cheated on Adam Galloway again, and was photographed by the paparazzi.
Adam Galloway's most famous photograph is "The Sleeping Beauty". It is said that Sleeping Beauty is Mrs. Kinoshita Claire, but the photo is on the back, and you can't see the face on the front, but judging from the figure and back, it should be the first lady.
When this work was on display at the Metropolitan Exhibition Center in New York, a fire suddenly broke out, and more than 100 exhibits in the Metropolitan Exhibition Center, including "Sleeping Beauty", were burned down, leaving only fragments of four corners.
At that time, public opinion in the United States generally believed that this was a retaliatory move by the then President of the United States, Mr. Kinoshita, and it was also in order to destroy this photo of his wife's cheating, so that the agents of the Department of Homeland Security started to burn this photographic work.
Adam Galloway, whose photographs are never negative, suffered a depression and died by suicide soon after learning that his masterpiece had been burned.
After his death, many wealthy people were willing to pay sky-high prices to buy a copy of "Sleeping Beauty", but the major media were surprised to find that there was not a single photo of "Sleeping Beauty", Adam Galloway has always been low-key, and he did not want his works to be in magazines, and now "Sleeping Beauty" has been burned, becoming a swan song in the history of modern photography.
The Chinese-American named Gao Jue claimed that his father was close friends with Adam Galloway, who had given him a copy of "Sleeping Beauty" before his death.
Now that President Kinoshita has stepped down, Takaku took out this work with great fanfare and asked to re-exhibit it in major exhibition halls around the world.
Wu Xueli, who majored in modern art, naturally knew about this photographic masterpiece, and she also saw the news that all major exhibition halls in the United States refused to exhibit "Sleeping Beauty", and Wu Xueli immediately sent an email, hoping that Gao Jue could exhibit this work at Yecheng Art Museum!
Originally, I had the mentality of giving it a try, but I didn't expect that the next morning, Wu Xueli really received a reply from Gao Jue, saying that he was willing to come to his home country to exhibit this work, as long as Yecheng Art Museum was willing to exhibit it, he would not even charge a penny.
After receiving this letter, Wu Xueli was almost crazy with joy. After asking the curator for approval, Wu Xueli immediately contacted Gao Jue and invited him to come to Yecheng to exhibit this "Sleeping Beauty" at the Yecheng Art Museum.
Today is the day to make an appointment with Gao Jue to pick up the airport, the bus of the art museum was requisitioned by the public security to hunt down the blood butterfly, and Wu Xueli did not have a driver's license, so she could only beg the big beauty next to her and ask her to drive a private car to the airport to pick up Gao Jue.
Sitting in the driver's seat is a tall beauty. is different from the petite and lovely Wu Xueli, this big beauty has the same figure as a Yanma, a big figure of 1.7 meters, long straight black hair, and a perfect S-shaped curve.
This big beauty is named Hua Manrao, she is a good friend of Wu Xueying, the two met at work, Hua Manrao is a famous framing merchant in Yecheng, mainly selling art frames, and Yecheng Art Museum often has to order some exhibition frames, back and forth, Wu Xueying and Hua Manrao became familiar, the two who also love modern art, soon became good sisters.
If it weren't for Wu Xueying's begging for a long time today, Hua Manrao would not have driven a private car to pick up this inexplicable Mi Chinese.
Hua Manrao grew up in the United States, the university is in the famous art school, the University of Southern California to study modern art, three years ago she came to her hometown of Yecheng to start a business, now her framing business has monopolized the Yecheng market, Yecheng several major exhibition halls are here in her custom exhibition frames.
And Hua Manrao has 10,000 distrust of the news media in the United States.
If you want to say that the domestic media is undisciplined, then the media in the United States has no lower limit, this kind of fake news is not a matter at all for the media in the United States, if it is confirmed to be fake, as long as a notice of publication error is published in the newspaper clip, you can treat it as if nothing has happened.
A copy of Adam Galloway's famous work, Hua Manrao doesn't believe in this kind of thing at all, if this Gao Jue really has a complete "Sleeping Beauty", it should be exhibited before President Kinoshita leaves office, it was quite newsworthy at that time, and the exhibition fee must be very high.
Now that President Kinoshita has stepped down, what's the point of hyping up his wife's scandal. Therefore, in Hua Manrao's opinion, this Gao Jue is a liar, otherwise he would not agree to exhibit "Sleeping Beauty" at Yecheng Art Museum.
However, Hua Manrao still couldn't help Wu Xueli's plea, and this Gao Jue really didn't ask for a penny from the Yecheng Exhibition Hall, and even the ticket to Yecheng was bought by himself.
Thinking of this, Hua Manrao was slightly shaken, does this person really have "Sleeping Beauty"?
When Hua Manrao was in the United States, she didn't see "Sleeping Beauty", and when this masterpiece was burned, Hua Manrao was also very remorseful.
Regardless of Adam Galloway's character, he has always been one of the most talented photographers in the country today. Every year, his work wins the Hamdan International Photography Prize, the highest award in the world of photography.
Not only that, but before Adam Galloway's death, his alma mater, the University of Southern California, was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame.
In the colleges and universities of the United States, it is definitely a high honor to be able to enter the school's Hall of Fame alive, and Hua Manrao, who is also an alumnus of the University of Southern California, has also admired Adam Galloway for a long time. Because the work "Sleeping Beauty" was burned, Hua Manrao also locked herself in the house for a long time.
One big and one small beauties each had their own hearts, the car finally arrived at Yecheng Airport, Wu Xueli held a sign with Gao Jue's Chinese and English names, and hurriedly walked to the exit, Hua Manrao locked the car, smiled bitterly, and quickly caught up with Wu Xueli.
Wu Xueli held a sign, and when she just ran to the exit of the plane, a young man with a painting tube, a suitcase, and a pullover walked in front of her.
The man took off the visor on his head, squeezed out a smile at Wu Xueli, and asked in broken Chinese: "Excuse me, are you Miss Wu Xueli?" ”
Wu Xueli pointed to the sign in her hand, turned the sign over, pointed to Gao Jue's English name, and asked nervously: "I am Wu Xueli, may I ask if you are Gao Jue, Konstantin Gao?" ”
The pullover man on the opposite side nodded with a smile, Wu Xueli took a long breath of relief, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Gao, I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time, the traffic jam on the road is delayed." ”
This Gao Jue was very easy-going, he said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's the first time we meet, wait for the beautiful lady, this is as it should be, there is nothing to apologize for." ”
Hearing Gao Jue's words, Wu Xueli raised her head with a smile, not far away, Hua Manrao crossed her arms, looking at the man who claimed to be Gao Jue, she stepped forward, pulled Wu Xueli and asked, "Xueli, this guy is the owner of the collection?" ”
Wu Xueli nodded again and again, she pulled Hua Manrao, pushed her in front of Gao Jue, and said with a smile: "Mr. Gao Jue, this Miss Hua Manrao is our special frame dealer of Yecheng Art Museum, she will be responsible for the framing of "Sleeping Beauty", she also grew up in the United States, this big beauty is a top student of the art department of the University of Southern California!" ”
Gao Jue hurriedly stretched out his hand and said to Hua Manrao earnestly: "Miss Hua, it's really a blessing to meet a beauty like you in the motherland, thank God, you gave me such a big surprise as soon as you got off the plane!" ”