Chapter 341 [The Water Lilies That Stirred Up Swan Castle]
Yang Nianzhong and his wife Anne already had an answer, but after being confirmed by Robert's housekeeper, the young couple could no longer stand. Sitting on the sofa with each other's arms, they looked at the 14 oil paintings on the coffee table in a daze.
The whole living room fell into a deathly silence, and I don't know how long it took to get it, when suddenly I heard the door open, and everyone banged their heads against the doorway. I saw my mother Yang Lan and a few servants in the house, talking and laughing from the outside, still carrying things in her hands, of course, my mother's hands were empty.
As soon as Yang Nianzhong saw his mother, it was like seeing a savior, he jumped up from the sofa like crazy and ran to his mother's side, took his mother's hand and walked in the direction of the sofa, and said to his mother who was still in a daze.
"Oh my mom, you're finally back, you're a savior, look at what I've found?"
Yang Lan, who was dragged by his son Yang Nianzhong, felt very strange, this kid rarely rested and relaxed, why did he come back so soon? What was found? Could it be that the old problem is committed again, and I go to Taobao again. Where did you get the treasure back? Mother Yang Lan didn't think about it, but when she saw the dozen or so oil paintings spread out on the coffee table, she couldn't help but be stunned.
Although his mother Yang Lan dropped out of school before finishing college, her mother is a typical female student with the title of Oriental Witch, although she did not graduate from college, but her knowledge reserve is not worse than those who graduated from college, and her classmates are worse and higher.
The major of learning is art appraisal, can my mother not know who painted these oil paintings? Like Robert, he lay on the table, carefully observing the details of these oil paintings.
Seeing the artist's method of using oil paint, the technique of transfiguration, and many other information, especially the signature in the lower left corner, I understand everything, this is the water lily painted by Monet at the peak of his later years.
Through Robert's confirmation, through his mother's confirmation, plus Yang Nianzhong and Anne, there are already 80% of the answers in their hearts, and after the three parties are summarized, it is proved that these 14 oil paintings are indeed Monet's works in his later years. But how could these paintings be hidden in a leather wallet, in the red oak dresser that the woman used? What's the story behind this?
The entire Yang family is curious about this, and the Yang family seems to be more curious than others, as if it is a family genetic disease. My mother can only conclude that this is Monet's work in his later years, and it is still a real masterpiece, but the story behind these oil paintings, my mother is not very clear.
The only person who can give the answer is my mother's boyfriend Griffin, because he is the head of Citibank's special appraisal of artworks, and the number of artworks identified in his hands every year is too large, and in the West, collecting oil paintings is a major category, and it is also the most valuable artwork.
Monet, on the other hand, was a very prolific painter in his youth, middle age, or old age. In his later years, he specialized in painting water lilies, and he has become obsessed, and there are more than 180 pieces of water lily products recorded.
So my mother couldn't solve the problem, so she could only call Griffin over, and when her girlfriend gave an order, Griffin was like a little boy in love. When Griffin appeared in the living room of the house, when he saw the 14 oil paintings, Griffin was stupid.
Open your briefcase, take out a special flashlight, take out a special magnifying glass clipped to your glasses, carefully observe the subtle details of these oil paintings, and draw conclusions.
These 14 oil paintings are the pinnacle works of Monet in his later years, and these 14 oil paintings have not been recorded, and it is not Yang Nian who discovered these oil paintings, and the whole world does not know that the water lilies painted in his later years are not just 180 oil paintings.
This is the fourth time that the authenticity of oil paintings has been identified, and the accurate answer is true, but these dozen or so oil paintings have not been recorded, how can they appear on a woman's dresser.
Griffin posted this question and wanted to take a look at the red oak dresser, and the whole family accompanied Griffin to the warehouse, where several manservants were holding hammers and nailing back the dressing table that Yang Yanzhong had pulled up.
It was done, so the family began to wander around the red oak dresser, and Griffin carefully observed the appearance of the dresser, but found no clues.
Then he opened all the drawers of the dresser, opened the sliding door and got into it with an electric rod, and found an engraving on the beam of one of the drawers, although it was written in German, which Anne knew, and this passage proved that the owner of the dresser was a German woman named Coco Schneider.
With this woman's name, all the mysteries are solved, when the whole family sits in the living room, while admiring the dozen or so oil paintings on the coffee table, while listening to Griffin, what is the relationship between Mo's Nai and Ned? Why did you hide these 14 oil paintings in a woman's dresser?
In fact, it is very simple, it is well known that Monet's wife died first, and his children were not around, so to take care of Monet's life in his later years, he could only hire a nanny.
And this nanny is the German woman Coco Schneider, when the nanny was already over middle age but still charming, and Monet in his later years, although the painting of water lilies has begun to go crazy, but he is a man after all.
A middle-aged woman and an old man who still have charm and get along day and night will not produce some stories, then they will see the hell, and the relationship between the two people will slowly heat up.
But Monet's children were very opposed, their father had feelings for this German woman, it was the First World War, France was almost beaten by Germany, how many people died.
Although this is the relationship between the two countries, the German woman's business, but the hatred between nations, the hatred between countries, indirectly affects everyone's judgment.
In addition, his father betrayed his long-dead mother in his twilight years, and had feelings for other women, which was a naked betrayal, and several children were even more disgusted with this woman, and forcibly drove this German woman Coco Schneider out of the house.
When he left, he didn't take anything with him, only a red oak dresser, which is documented, and this Coco Schneider disappeared a few years later.
The painting of water lilies has gone mad, Monet has tortured himself to death, according to Monet's meaning, all his water lily works, whether they are series or single, are all registered.
But no one knew that when Monet was in love with Coco Snyder, a German woman, you secretly painted a group of small water lily works, which was the water lily work found in Yang Nian, a total of 14 photos were given to your German lover Coco Schneider.
Because she was afraid that Monet's family would not let him take these oil paintings away, this woman quietly made a modification of her dresser, and hid 14 oil paintings painted by Monet especially for him, a German woman, in a red oak dresser before leaving Monet's home.