Chapter 355 Auction

put a thunder on the territory of the American emperor to scare people, and Qin Mubai went straight to the auction venue, and the time was about the same.

Before entering the auction hall, Qin Mubai didn't expect that there would be so many people here, but the only difference was that there were not as many rich people as Qin Mubai imagined.

Well, at least he doesn't know Mao.

"Shanmir, aren't they all those rich people who came today?" Qin Mubai asked with some curiosity.

"No, actually, almost all the people who are interested in buying our paintings are here in person today, and only a few of them can't make it to the scene for special reasons, so they let their assistants come over. Sanmir said with a smile.

"Then I don't even know why. Qin Mubai was a little speechless.

"Mr. Qin, you should be referring to those people on the rich list, right? But it's not just those on the rich list who can buy paintings. Sanmir smiled.

"Well, you have a point. Qin Mubai nodded, "You don't have to worry about me, I'll just take a look for myself." Qin Mubai said hello to Shan Mi and signaled that he could go busy by himself.

Sanmir nodded, and left without pretentiousness. There are still many things he is responsible for in the auction, and the venue of the auction is very ordinary, in fact, it looks similar to an ordinary meeting hall in a hotel, except that the top is higher and there is no so-called box or anything like that.

Anyway, there is no auction site, the seats below are neatly next to each other, to be honest, those who can come here to play the auction also have a certain economic strength, and these people are naturally very well-cultivated. Qin Mubai didn't count how many people participated in the auction, but there were about four or five hundred buyers alone, and this is not counting the media and the like.

Anyway, there are quite a few people.

The auction started soon, and Qin Mubai also casually found a place to sit down and blended in with the crowd. As the auctioneer began to introduce the exhibits of this last day of auction and so on, the atmosphere at the scene gradually began to warm up, I have to say, listening to the above introduction, and the continuous warm atmosphere of the people below.

Qin Mubai wants to buy something, no wonder the price of many things will always be sky-high in the auction, in such an atmosphere, it is difficult to get a sky-high price.

When the first lot started, everyone could see that many people were going for the last Van Gogh painting today, so although there were many bidders for the first thing, the atmosphere was not very enthusiastic, as if everyone was waiting for the last four paintings.

Qin Mubai didn't see Hu Xingwen, maybe Hu Xingwen didn't come over this time, but the representative of the Palace Museum must have come.

After more than an hour of auction, it finally came to the final finale auction, that is, the four paintings about Van Gogh that Qin Mubai took out, two of which he had never seen before, and two of which had disappeared from history, but he didn't know why he appeared here.

Anyway, no one knows, and these two paintings are related to the Japanese, and so far no Japanese have jumped out to say that there is anything wrong with these paintings, which proves that I am afraid that these two paintings are really missing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the painting we are auctioning now is one of the four works of Vincent van Gogh that was taken out at this auction, "Sunflowers", I believe many people know this sunflower work, this painting was rumored to have been destroyed in Japan in the war, but I didn't expect it to appear here, its experience itself has a certain legend, as one of the few paintings of Van Gogh that has been circulated. It has a starting price of $20 million, with each increase being at least $100,000. ”

With the introduction of the auctioneer, soon, the painting has entered the auction stage, its auction price is not high, it can be said that it is the lowest starting price among the many paintings sold by Van Gogh, of course, this is the starting price, not the transaction price.

"25 million. The first call for the price soon appeared, although everyone knew that the final price of the painting could not be so low, but they did not expect that someone would directly increase the price of 5 million US dollars.

"26 million. ”

"This gentleman bid 26 million. ”

"27 million. ”

"28 million. ”

"30 million. There were a lot of people holding signs below, so the price began to rise almost in the blink of an eye, and with this warm atmosphere, Qin Mubai felt that his heartbeat began to speed up, which made Qin Mubai feel a little unimaginable.

I didn't expect him to be affected by this atmosphere.

However, Qin Mubai found something again, that is, although Shanmir told Qin Mubai that many rich people themselves had come here, but they came and returned, but there were not many rich people who were really sitting here for auction, and they seemed to be remotely controlled in the reception room.

And they are all their agents who appear here, so it is no wonder that many valuable buyers of paintings have no idea who bought them.

"33 million for the first time. "The price of sunflowers has finally been slowed down by a price of 33 million, Van Gogh's paintings have not been auctioned for a long time, and no one really knows what kind of price the market is now.

"35 million. "It's a new price for everyone.

Because there are not many Van Gogh paintings in the world, and almost all of them were auctioned in the last century, there has not been an auction of Van Gogh's paintings in this century.

"45 million. Suddenly, a new sky-high price popped up, causing a small commotion in the entire venue, because this price directly increased by $10 million at one time!

"Okay, Mr. 38 is bidding $45 million! This is a new height!" the auctioneer's voice couldn't help but rise.

The higher the auction price in the front, the higher the price in the back!

"45 million for the first time. The auctioneer shouted for the first time.

It seemed that the atmosphere at the scene was suddenly frightened by this price, and everyone else fell silent.

"45 million for the second time. The auctioneer shouted a second time.

"47 million. Finally, someone shouted out a new price, I have to say, Qin Mubai was a little nervous just now, although this price sounds very high, but the thing is his, Qin Mubai always feels that this painting can be higher.

With the advent of this price, it seems that the atmosphere is warm again.

Qin Mubai was also relieved at this time, what about him, anyway, he just sat here and didn't speak. In this way, the price of the painting is rising little by little.

When it was finally sold, the price of this painting appeared a figure that Qin Mubai did not expect, 67 million US dollars! This painting is not the highest level of Van Gogh's paintings in history, but it is the highest level of sunflowers sold by Van Gogh.

However, this is also a good start for today's auction.

Qin Mubai was a little happy, which means that the next few paintings may have a sky-high price, according to Shanmir's estimate, the final price of these four paintings is about 300 million to 400 million US dollars.

In other words, the remaining paintings will definitely have more than 100 million dollars.

"Now let's start the auction of the second Dr. Gachet ......" the auctioneer began to enthusiastically introduce on the stage, the starting price of this painting is relatively high, because when it was auctioned, the final price had reached more than 80 million US dollars, although the price may have been a little inflated at that time.

But again, with inflation now, is it worth as much money today as it was 30 years ago? From the first sunflower, I knew that the price of this painting would definitely be high.

The starting price for the painting is $50 million, and each increase is still not less than $100,000. But judging from the first painting, no one added 100,000 or 100,000 dollars.

"70 million. "The difference from the last time is that this time the opening is even more popular, the first price is directly added to the 20 million US dollars, to be honest, sitting here Qin Mubai feels that his 1 billion US dollars seems to be nothing here, just the majestic appearance of the price for these people, it is difficult for you to imagine that money is a concept for people at all.

"80 million!" the second ask price rose by another $10 million.

"100 million!" is still the one who shouted for the first time. This time, the price directly broke 100 million.

I'll go, this time everyone was a little shocked, and the price was raised by 20 million twice in a row, which is inevitable. The person who asked for the price was a middle-aged white man in his fifties, and it was impossible to tell whether he was himself or an agent, but the way he asked for the price knew that the person behind him must be quite rich.

"120 million. "The third bidder appeared, and the price went up by 20 million again.

To be honest, Qin Mubai is also a little incomprehensible now, Nima, this is a little weird, this is directly 20 million, 20 million added? Even if you have money, this is too inappropriate, right? But people are willing to shout if they have money, Qin Mubai is naturally happy, I damn it, this is to give money to myself.

However, after 120 million, the price finally began to slow down, but even if it slowed down, the price did not rise at a low rate.

"Hum", Qin Mubai's mobile phone vibrated a little, there is no signal here, because many people in it are controlled remotely, Qin Mubai took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked at it, it was a text message, and the sender was Professor Hu Xingwen.

However, after seeing Professor Hu's text message, Qin Mubai couldn't laugh or cry.

"Xiao Qin, we may not be able to fulfill our promise, I'm afraid the funds we applied for are not enough. These are the words sent by Professor Hu.

Qin Mubai was a little speechless, but thinking about it, the price of this painting has reached this point, as for the two paintings in the back, it is really difficult to say clearly now, because this is a painting that Van Gogh has never seen, but it is certain that the value of these two paintings is definitely higher than the previous one.