[The train slowly circles the city, passing through the buildings of the black hole, and the bright lights and the locomotive emitting white smoke reflect the charm of midnight......]

The phone vibrates slightly.

On the armchair in the carriage, Anna took her eyes off the travelogue "The Grand Bazaar of Trains" written by Paul Soroux in her hand and took out her mobile phone.

Outside the window, the train is slowly picking up speed, leaving the heart of London behind.

At the end of the thank-you dinner with Osborne, Anna had no urgent schedule.

She didn't need to be in a hurry, so she asked the butler to book a first-class box on the next Eurostar train.

There is no other reason,

In addition to allowing her to take off from Paris and land in London in 45 minutes on a private jet jet, Fortune also allows Anna to spend a little more time leisurely along the cobweb-like railway lines of communication, through Lyon, over the Ardennes and finally to St. Anton Arlberg Station in Austria.

She likes to watch the primroses and tulips spread slowly over the carpet-like lawns of the Continental Plains in early spring.

It's like an oil painter using a soft pen on a green background, using color dots to sprinkle colorful arcs.

Well?

Anna's calm and unhurried good mood was easily broken by the new message sent by the detective cat on her phone.

"Mr. Sloth, I might have to sign a new gallery."

The girl froze.

The detective cat is about to sign for the official gallery, which has been expected by Miss Elena all along.

Anna is very well connected.

Unfortunately, she is just a little girl, not a professional art agent, nor a modern gallery with thousands of employees around the world.

After all, professional agents are meant to show their heads.

The illustration contract is a relatively simple contract, and Anna does it part-time behind the scenes, so it's not a big problem.

But she hides her identity alone, and it is impossible for her to complete the small work that the professional big galleries are responsible for, such as organizing exhibitions, selling, contacting collectors, and coordinating booths at art fairs.

It wouldn't be possible to split Miss Yelena into eight pieces by herself.

There is a specialization in the art industry.

If a single person "Mr. Sloth" can do such a complex thing, then what does a professional gallery team do?

Unless she decides to want to buy the gallery, hire an entire team of professionals dedicated to the "Detective Cats". Otherwise, in order to develop better, the career of a serious artist will always need the help of the gallery.

Of course she knows that.

When I first contacted Detective Cat, I offered to introduce a nice gallery to each other.

I signed a contract with the big sister of the detective cat, which is a replacement and transition before the other party did not sign the gallery.

As a result, it was agreed that the gentlemen's agreement would not explore each other's identities.

Somewhere in Anna's mind has always been clear.

An excellent painter like Detective Cat should not be satisfied with only developing in the field of illustration, after all, he should detach himself and go to a more serious aspect.

It's just that she didn't expect that this day would come so soon.

"Congratulations."

Anna bit her lip slightly.

She endured her sadness and typed on the keyboard: "I am lucky enough to witness the birth of so many excellent works. Even if it's only a month of cooperation, it's still a very precious memory. If you need any help in the future, or if you want to continue to develop your illustration career, even if I'm no longer your agent, feel free to contact me. ”

"The Scholastic Group is a leading company in the publishing industry, and I personally think you can continue to work with them with the consent of the gallery. Also, I suggest Detective Cat Ms., you'd better wait until the book "The Little Prince" is on the market before signing with the gallery, and ......"

Anna pressed enter, her finger hovering over the on-screen keyboard.

She hesitated to tell the other party,

It was at Osborne that he was nominated for the Scholastic Master Award for Outstanding Contributions to Writing and Art.

Miss Elena firmly believes that given enough time to the market, the new edition of The Little Prince illustrations will be able to transmit shocks from the shallow readers to the upper echelons of collectors like dominoes.

meantime

Although illustration is not serious enough, the publisher's [Outstanding Contribution Master Award] is the most serious award in the entire industry.

Both of these can greatly improve the level of illustrators, and elevate the "illustrator" to the level of "artist".

Anna felt,

Signing a gallery is certainly a great thing.

It's just that Detective Cat Lady should wait another month or two, when the popularity and collector's market recognition have gone up, so that she can exchange it for greater benefits for herself.

When Gu Weijing saw the message replied by Mr. Sloth on the screen, he knew that this uncle had misunderstood.

"Mr. Sloth, we have had a great time working together, and I thank you very much for your efforts. I don't have a reason to change the agent I work with, or I don't want to illustrate anymore. ”

Gu Weijing explained.

"The gallery?"

"A friend recommended me to a big gallery with a long history, and the gallery didn't know that I had ever illustrated online, but was just interested in my technique."

"I just thought I should let you know, and in the meantime, I want to know, does this affect our cooperation?"

That's right.

Miss Elena sees a new message on her phone's screen.

She actually felt a sense of relief in her heart.

In the fairy tale book, the little prince spent so much time on roses, so it was a rose that belonged to him.

Anna has put so much effort and effort into the detective cat, and in the same way, it belongs to her big sister.

No matter how she tapped the words of congratulations on her fingertips.

Miss Elena still has a considerable degree of reluctance in her heart to raise a painter who has a soul resonance with her, and will run away from other gallerists.

"There's nothing wrong with my side."

Anna immediately replied: "The contract says yes, I am just the agent of the virtual artist identity of 'Detective Cat', and the contract between you and the gallery does not conflict with us." ”

"But I suggest that you need to make a clear agreement with the gallery in advance to avoid trouble in the future. That painting is regular, right? If it's a small gallery, I don't recommend signing it, or just signing a short-term contract that renews every year. ”

"I really want to sign a gallery, I might be able to find a better one for you."

Anna suggested.

Knife painting is no longer welcomed by the mainstream art world, and it is also a scorer.

Boggs is also a tenured professor at the Brooklyn School of Art.

can be painted so well that the detective cat sister is like this, and some first- and second-tier large galleries will also be interested.

And.

Deducting the knife drawing, the sketch of the detective cat itself is also a must. As long as it works properly, there are suitable referrals, and even signing up for some big galleries with heads.

"If only it had earlier." Anna felt some regret in her heart.

The Elena family has channels of communication with the top galleries, but in order to maintain its neutrality, Oil Painting magazine has not had a close relationship with those galleries in the past.

It can't compare to her relationship with Uncle Osborne.

At the same time, Anna's current conflict with Sir Brown of "Oil Painting" is not particularly hidden news in the high art world.

At such times, those big gallerists must have some concerns about signing the painters she recommends.

Especially after the detective cat was removed from the buyer's section of "Oil Painting" magazine, it was more like a matter of taking a stand.

These gallerists are all shrewd.

A De Jong Van Door's accusation, they can not care.

But in opposition to the entire management of the magazine, which can play a decisive role in the hearts of collectors, unless they are well fed up, the gallery is not challenging.

It's not enough to give Miss Elena a behind closed doors, and it's too ugly.

If now Anna makes a private call as a veteran collector.

Even Larry Gagosian would respond to her flattering smile, whether it was buying a painting or exchanging a collection, it was a matter of one sentence.

But if you recommend a representative painter......

Well, since you know that the result will be false and wrongful, why bother to be boring.

"Don't worry about that, the gallery that signed me is not only very formal, but also very large, and it is an intercontinental gallery. Herein lies the problem. I don't have any qualifications to talk about conditions in front of the other party......"

Gu Weijing and Mr. Sloth talk about their confusion - he doesn't want Mars Gallery to handle the detective cat thing.

In case of difficulty,

Whether it's painting or something else, Mr. Sloth is a very good listener.

He clearly remembered that when he first added his uncle, the other party once proposed to help him read the contract, and he should be very knowledgeable.

"Understood."

Anna chatted on her phone for a moment, and knew in her mind what Detective Cat Lady needed.

"Since the Intercontinental Gallery ...... Well, it should be an exclusive agent, right? She asked, thinking about it.

"Yes, it's the exclusive agent, but I look at the terms above, it only restricts me from cooperating with other galleries or going to auctions, and it seems that there are no restrictions on illustrations."

"That's right."

Anna pondered for a moment.

She didn't immediately tell the other party if she could sign it, and many legal twists and turns could not be explained clearly in two or three sentences on social software.

"If you don't mind, can you send me the contract to see?"

"Wait a minute."

Before the other party goes back to the hotel,

Gu Weijing added Hanks' work social account, and Hanks also sent him a PDF copy of the contract in his mailbox.

He pulled up the PDF on his computer, mosaiced out all the information about the "Mars Gallery" in the contract, and then sent the document to Mr. Sloth.

It's not that Gu Weijing has to guard against Mr. Sloth.

But since he wants to deal with Gu Weijing and "Detective Cat" as two identities that cannot be reunited by outsiders in the future.

So it's better to pay attention to this kind of trivial matter, it's better.

No matter how widely Mars Gallery casts its nets to catch fish, it is also the head gallery that takes the elite route, and with a history of more than 100 years, it has only signed a total of about 300 painters.

In case the news leaks out.

As long as anyone knows that the detective cat is going to sign with Mars Gallery, and then on the updated list of artists represented by Mars Gallery's global official website, they will scan their eyes twice.

It's easy to lock down his true identity.

"I'm going to do a business for a while in the evening, please help me get a computer?" Plus I want a cup of coffee, no milk or sugar. Anna received the new documents and took out the mini walkie-talkie in her pocket.

In the nineteenth century, when the upper class traveled by train, it was the traditional custom for the master to book a first-class box, and then to book a first- or second-class berth at the back of the car for his personal servants.

Anna's legs and feet are inconvenient.

She simply booked two independent boxes next to each other, and the two nursing aunts lived next door to her.

Two minutes later,

The nurse, dressed in a black and white petticoat, brought the computer to the table in front of Anna's armchair along with the coffee from the dining car.

"Well, it looks like at least the contract is legitimate."

Miss Elena went through the pages of the contract on the computer screen, turning the pages and sometimes highlighting specific clauses.

When a girl browses through the contract, the first thing she focuses on is almost the same as Mrs. Sakai's.

The standard contract of each gallery has its own style, and whether a gallery is the kind of black shop that sells people, you can see the terms of the contract.

She didn't see the pitty conditions, but her gaze paused for a moment on the division and age.

"15 years, 70% of the commission?" Anna thought for a moment.

This copy of the contract shows the terms and offers that Hanks had prepared before he first came to Yangon.

The rake is not bad or bad.

It's just a bit too long, but if it's the Intercontinental Gallery in the mouth of Detective Cat Ms., Anna can understand it.

She put this thing aside for the time being, and carefully browsed through the relevant fields of the agency content.

"Restricting auctions, the terms of this contract are not very favorable."

Anna shook her head slightly.

Illustrators go to high places, and if they want to break the circle, they can't avoid cooperating with auction houses.

KAWS is a regular visitor to the auction house.

Even Takashi Murakami, who is similar to his art style, often cooperates with galleries and auction houses to hype up figures, trendy toys, and spray-painted illustrations with a unit price of more than $5 million.

Not to mention whether the detective cat will take this route in the future, and whether it can get to this point.

These clauses alone kill that possibility.

Anna took out her phone again.

With the exception of tunnels and mountain ranges, the Eurostar is the pride of Europe's oldest railway industry and has a mobile phone signal for the entire journey.

Anna didn't rush to reply to the detective cat, but chose a name in the classmates and dialed it.

The art industry, the financial industry and the political industry all belong to the circle of industry connections.

High-end people are often seniors who graduated from the same school.

Some of the colleges of Oxford University used to provide more than 30 percent of the top bureaucrats in the 80s and 90s.

The WYN School of Fine Arts, where Anna University studied, is one of the oldest art schools in Europe.

It is known for two things.

It has one of the top five departments of art theory and cultural studies in Europe, and the Academy of Fine Arts, which rejected a young art student with a moustache who longed for the institution in 1907 and 1908.

Subtract the latter, an unpleasant episode that has affected human history.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, WYN Academy of Fine Arts has cultivated a large number of high-end talents in the high-end art industry.

There are also a large number of upper-class people who send their children here to cultivate their artistic accomplishments.

For example, Anna,

For example, her former roommate Aurora, who is now a senior administrative manager of the largest private gallery in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, is completely within the scope of her profession when looking at art agency contracts.

In fact, just looking at the contract, Anna doesn't necessarily have to look for Aurora.

The Yelena family has a long-standing advisory agreement with the oldest law firm in Grieds. Anna has professional private legal counsel.

but

She couldn't help but think carefully in her heart.

"Aurora, help me read a contract...... By the way, are you a professional, can you tell which gallery is using the contract template and style? ”

As soon as the phone was connected, Anna couldn't help but ask curiously.

(End of chapter)