Chapter 356 Loss or Gain

Qin Mubai hesitated, he stood up and secretly left the venue, anyway, he didn't prepare for the auction, sitting here was nothing more than watching the excitement, naturally no one would stop him.

When he arrived in the bathroom next to him, Qin Mubai thought about it and sent a text message to Professor Hu Xingwen: "If you want, I can sell it to you for 200 million, the agreement we reached before and this new price, which one is lower, I will not exceed 200 million at the maximum, and I will return the rest to you." ”

Since Qin Mubai promised Professor Hu before, it would be nothing to prepare a Van Gogh painting for them, to be honest, 200 million US dollars is not low, of course, 200 million US dollars is actually nothing to the Palace Museum, who makes China rich now? The whole world knows that China has money now, and if this thing is bought back, it will only increase in value.

As for any other purpose, it was not something that Qin Mubai considered.

"Really?" Professor Hu's message came back quickly.

"Really. Qin Mubai said very simply.

"Good. Professor Hu replied with one more word.

Terminating the text message, Qin Mubai shook his head and deleted the text message in his hand, this time Qin Mubai did not return to the venue, but just looked at the auction inside outside, the price inside had begun to slow down, and there were even hundreds of thousands of dollars in price increases.

Now the price has reached 156.6 million, which far exceeds Qin Mubai's expectations for this painting, which can be said to be the highest price in Van Gogh's paintings, and there is no one.

This price is not the final price, and in the end, the price of this Dr. Gachet is 167.5 million. This price is also the highest price at Sotheby's this time!

Because there was a secret agreement in advance, the third auction work was not a bird, but "The Field in a Dream", that is, the one requested by the Palace Museum, and the starting price of this painting also reached 80 million US dollars, but it can also be seen from this that it is estimated that Sotheby's himself did not dare to put the price too high, who knows what the acceptance of the outside world is?

After all, the style of these two paintings and Van Gogh's paintings is completely different, of course, this style is different means that the content contained in the painting is completely different, not to say that it is painted and so on, because now these two paintings have been recognized by artists and historians who study Van Gogh all over the world, and this is the true work of Van Gogh.

So there is no doubt about its authenticity.

"100 million!" The same routine, almost as soon as this price came out, before the people at the Palace Museum could quote it, the price reached 100 million.

The next scene was even more enthusiastic, and soon the price of the Palace Museum was also added to the quotation, I don't know if it was intentional, everyone else just called the number, but it was the turn of the Palace Museum here, and even their identities were shouted.

But I don't know if it was arranged in advance by Sotheby's, or what happened, and soon a second institution with the same name was also called, which was also a museum. Qin Mubai had some surprises, could it be said that this was also an unspoken rule? Are museums all open auctions?

And this second museum also made Qin Mubai a little surprised, it is from the Van Gogh Art Museum in the Netherlands, which was also established after Van Gogh's brother's brother-in-law donated most of Van Gogh's works to the Dutch government, and this Van Gogh Art Museum has more than 200 of Van Gogh's top works in the golden age.

Since the establishment of the Van Gogh Art Museum, the Dutch have been raising funds to buy Van Gogh's works all over the world, but unfortunately, the Netherlands is not very rich, and the funds that can be raised are limited, so there is no way to buy these paintings back from those who are really rich.

This time, the Van Gogh Museum of Art estimates that the reason why it did not join the competition for the first two paintings is to buy this one, Van Gogh's unique painting style that has never appeared in history, which has special significance for the study of Van Gogh and the commemoration of Van Gogh.

"180 million. Qin Mubai could hear the shouting on behalf of the Palace Museum.

"The Palace Museum from China has bid $180 million, and there is no higher price. The auctioneer above said in a high voice, this is already another new high price.

"185 million!" was another man's voice.

"The Van Gogh Art Museum from the Netherlands is bidding $185 million!" the auctioneer immediately shouted.

"190 million!" The Forbidden City did not hesitate to sell, to be honest, although the possibility of them selling this painting after buying it is very small, but whether it is sold or not, it will definitely not be bought at a loss. So they were under no pressure to bid, and it was clear that they had some support.

"200 million!"

The other collectors stopped shouting for the time being, just looking at the two museums like cockfighting, you come and go, and even the auctioneers above have time to speak, they themselves start shouting.

The auctioneers are probably almost laughing, such an atmosphere is more likely to appear higher prices, it is estimated that those collectors are blind at the moment, these two museums are crazy? Everyone knows about the Palace Museum, but they have never bought paintings from foreign collectors, why would they buy Van Gogh? But the Van Gogh Art Museum can understand it, after all, this museum has always appeared as long as there is an auction of Van Gogh's paintings, and usually someone will buy it in private.

"200.5 million. "The Forbidden City has changed to $5 million OnePlus.

However, the price is still soaring rapidly, and there is no pressure on the Palace Museum, anyway, they already know that no matter how much they auction, in the end they only paid 200 million, and as long as the final price exceeds 200 million, they will earn.

As the two sides bid each other, when the price reached 230 million, it finally stopped, but it was only the two of them who stopped, but someone else joined in.

It wasn't until the Palace Museum paid 255 million that it finally won the work.

When this work was won, the last one was left, and Qin Mubai had already seen that many people had left directly to make a call.

And the auctioneer above is obviously very aware of this situation, and announced a temporary break of ten minutes, and the auction will start again after ten minutes, because many people are entrusted with the auction, and I am not here, this is the time for them to communicate.

Seeing this, Qin Mubai was already very satisfied, although the result of this painting was only 200 million, and the extra ones were not counted, but the last painting might burst out at a sky-high price.

Because many people understand what is the result of being collected by museums, it means that there will never be any recirculation in the market, and they will almost always remain in these museums permanently.

In such a situation, there will definitely be a lot of people who will increase their prices and chips for the third painting.

In fact, just as Qin Mubai guessed, the final price of the third flying bird was 332 million US dollars! This price is almost one of the highest prices for oil paintings in the world, although it is not yet the peak, but this is almost a sky-high price.

After all, a higher price than this is not only a matter of the fame of the painter, but also requires a lot of factors to add up to have such a terrifying price.

Even so, the final auction results of the four paintings reached $821.5 million. As soon as the prices of the next three paintings came out, the person who bought the first painting was immediately overjoyed, and according to the price of the next three paintings, his first painting was cheaper.

Because everyone knows that the next time Van Gogh paints it, it won't be at this price.

The auction is over perfectly, but Qin Mubai's matter here is naturally not over yet, but he has already received a text message from Ma Xiaoyun on his mobile phone: "Damn, I have struggled for so many years, it is better for you to sell a few paintings, this world is too unfair." ”

Qin Mubai was a little speechless.

"I said big brother, it's us who is unfair, right? We are selling paintings, you people are buying paintings, and the local tyrants who can buy these paintings still care about the money?" Qin Mubai said a little speechless.

"How much money? Your uncle's, that's more than 800 million dollars. ”

The result of this auction is a win-win situation, although Sotheby's auction house only has a 5% commission, but the commission of 821.5 million US dollars, calculated according to the price of 5%, there are also a full 41 million US dollars, although Sotheby's has paid a lot of venue publicity and so on, but this is still a big profit for them!

As for private transactions, it was not something they managed, it was up to Qin Mubai to deal with it himself. stayed here at Sotheby's until the evening, and all the follow-up things were handled, and Qin Mubai's account also included the follow-up transfer funds from Sotheby's.

Then Qin Mubai met with the people from the Palace Museum that night, but this time it was Qin Mubai who returned the money to others, and they spent 255 million on the auction, although Qin Mubai was settled according to 200 million at the most, but in fact, the price that was negotiated at the beginning was 75%, naturally which one was lower according to which, according to 255 million, 75% was only 190 million. 、

Therefore, Qin Mubai naturally settled directly according to 190 million, and returned 65 million US dollars to them.

Qin Mubai only had 755 million funds left in his hands. But even so, with Qin Mubai's previous $1 billion, the number of dollars in his account has reached $1.75 billion.

If converted to RMB, this figure has exceeded 10 billion. Qin Mubai was really unprepared for himself to suddenly become a billionaire, speaking of which, he really didn't do anything, just selling a few paintings, at best, selling a declaration of independence.

But the Declaration of Independence, which has not been published by the U.S. government so far, is obviously impossible for the U.S. government to keep it silent in a corner, and it will certainly be made public to the world.