Chapter 176
Phillips Auction House is not as rich as Poly and Guardian, and has its own office building.
But it is not to the point where Chengxuan needs to rent a hotel.
The auction house has its own office building in Beijing and rents an entire floor in the building in the Third Ring CBD.
The preview is located in the office building, covering an area of about 300 square meters, with abundant exhibits and an endless stream of customers coming to see the exhibition.
When Lin Xiao came to Phillips Auction House, the “Blue Bamboo Picture” was still on display.
Apparently, the auction house did not know about it yet.
Or, got it, pretended not to know.
In short, when Lin Xiao arrived here, he saw that many people were gathered in one of the display cases.
Take a closer look, it is the “Lanzhu Diagram”.
Obviously, they all came to see the liveliness.
There are many customers, holding mobile phones in their hands, and on the screen of the mobile phone, it is the “Lanzhu Map” of Chengxuan Auction House.
They are comparing the two paintings.
“Two auction houses auctioning a painting is really unprecedented.”
“Therefore, calligraphy and painting still have to go to Rongbaozhai, or go to Poly.”
“Chengxuan’s kind of small auction house thief is not reliable, Phillips is not small, but Longguo calligraphy and painting is not his specialty after all.”
“It’s a pity that this painting has no identification results, otherwise I would have bought it even if I knew it was fake.”
“Can this kind of good thing get your turn?”
“If you buy it now, it’s called awesome.”
“Buy now? I’m stupid almost. ”
Lin Xiao stood in the crowd and carefully observed the painting through the glass display case.
The feeling that this painting gives him is also difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Zheng Banqiao is best known for bamboo, just like Li Kuchan’s eagle, the bamboo he painted is heavy.
But it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, except for Tan Yunlong, there is no second person.
And Tan Yunlong’s painting, strictly speaking, cannot be regarded as a fake painting.
He glanced at the price on the sign below, 1.1 million.
Hey, it’s worthy of being a big auction house, and the starting price is higher.
He looked around and did not see the person in charge of the auction house.
He was thinking about whether to directly find the person in charge and tell the other party that he wanted this painting.
Or call grandpa over.
The auction house called him yesterday and knew him.
If you directly propose to buy, you are afraid that the other party will sit on the ground and start the price.
Let’s wait 15 first.
Lin Xiao left here to look at the other display cases.
Looking at these oil paintings, Lin Xiao suddenly found that he had not recycled oil paintings until now.
Chinese painting and oil painting are very different and belong to two completely different types.
At most, he can roughly distinguish the year of a painting through paper and ink, but he can’t determine who painted a painting, whether it is true or false.
But in this place, he can’t get oil paintings to recycle, so he can only look everywhere in a fake way.
“Mr. Lin.”
A middle-aged woman walked over, her high heels stepping on the floor tiles, very crisp.
“President Lu?”
“It’s me.” Mr. Lu shook hands with Lin Xiao: “Does Mr. Lin also have research on oil painting?” ”
Lin Xiao shook his head: “There is not much contact. ”
President Lu did not feel that he was modest, she still knew a little about Lin Xiao.
This person is proficient in all kinds of cultural relics and curios of the Dragon Kingdom.
Whether it is calligraphy and painting, porcelain, or other antiques, there is basically no escape from Lin Xiao’s eyes.
But after all, a person’s energy and knowledge are limited, and it is impossible to understand everything.
He said that he didn’t understand oil painting, and Mr. Lu felt very normal.
After all, in the Dragon Kingdom, oil paintings are a very niche collection.
Many people collect oil paintings, mainly considering their appreciation space, rather than appreciation.
And landscape painting, domestic collectors will appreciate it more or less.
The two chatted while walking, Lin Xiaozi looked at the “Lanzhu Diagram” side unintentionally, and said curiously: “Why are there so many people over there?” ”
Mr. Lu was slightly uncomfortable, shook his head and did not speak.
Lin Xiao walked over there with some curiosity, and President Lu hesitated slightly, and also walked over.
The two came outside the crowd, listened to their conversation, and quickly understood what was going on.
Lin Xiao looked at President Lu and said in surprise: “The same painting? ”
Mr. Lu took out his mobile phone, dialed a number, and pretended to inquire.
Hanging up the phone, Mr. Lu sighed lightly: “It seems to have collided with another auction house, and they also have a “Lanzhu Map”. ”
Lin Xiao sighed and said, “Then I’m afraid this painting won’t sell well.” ”
Mr. Lu said: “There is no way to sell it, you can only put it first, turn back and contact the seller, and see how he plans to deal with it.” ”
Generally, when this happens, the seller takes it back directly and sells it through other channels.
Auction houses are not very good to continue to auction.
Although the auction house is not fidelity, and this rule is also written in the contract.
But even if the regulations are so clear and known to everyone, you can’t put it on the surface.
Therefore, auction houses generally treat things that are easy to cause such topics.
It would be best if it didn’t cause a buzz.
Unless, they can authenticate the item.
In this way, not only avoid the discussion of the outside world, but also the fall of peers.
It can also turn the situation around, turn this disadvantage into heat, and take the opportunity to do a wave of publicity.
However, there are very few auction items that allow auction houses to conduct fidelity.
Unless it is something that is 100% sure to be true, it will definitely not be done.
If their front foot was authentic, and the painting that followed Chengxuan was identified as authentic, they would only be more humiliated.
Lin Xiao snorted, and suddenly asked, “President Lu, how much is that ‘Blue Bamboo Map’?” ”
Mr. Lu looked at him with some surprise: “Is Mr. Lin interested?” ”
Lin Xiao said: “I am indeed very interested, but it mainly depends on the price.” If the price is right, you may want to consider it. ”
Mr. Lu asked, “Doesn’t Mr. Lin need to take a look first?” ”
The two of them were outside the crowd, their views blocked, and standing here they could not see the paintings inside.
Without looking at the painting, just ask for a quote directly, what is this operation?
Lin Xiao smiled slightly: “No need to look, I like to gamble.” Mr. Lu help ask the seller, the price is right, when I leave in a while, just help me wrap it. ”
“Okay, I’ll ask.”
Mr. Lu took out his mobile phone and walked aside.
A few minutes later, he walked back: “I asked the employee to contact the seller. ”
Lin Xiao snorted: “Then I’ll go around, President Lu has a result here, just give me a call.” ”
“Okay.”
“Oh, right.” Lin Xiao asked, “Do we sell oil paintings here in our auction house?” It’s the kind of oil painting that costs a few hundred dollars a piece. ”
“There are decorative paintings, do Mr. Lin need them?”
“Are there small sizes?”
“Yes.”
“Trouble Mr. Lu to give me one.”
“Mr. Lin and I’ll come here.”
Mr. Lu wondered in his heart, what is this Mr. Lin’s operation?
It is also to buy a painting that is most likely fake, and buy it directly without looking at it.
Another is to buy hundreds of decorative oil paintings.
Are you planning to settle in the capital?
Buy it and hang it in your home?
They came to the front desk, Mr. Lu asked the front desk to bring a painting not much larger than the picture frame, Lin Xiao took out his mobile phone to pay, Mr. Lu said: “This is a souvenir, no money.” ”
“Then I won’t be polite with President Lu.”
Lin Xiao held the oil painting and said, “Then I’ll go down first and put the oil painting in the car.” ”
He has a fart car.
Lin Xiao took the elevator downstairs, came to the first floor, and walked straight to the bathroom.
By the time he came out of the bathroom, the painting was gone.
He took the elevator up and continued strolling.
“Oil painting…”
Looking at these paintings at this time, it is completely different from before.
Most of the oil paintings here are imitations, but there are also genuine ones, but the price is higher.
For example, the oil painting “Castle and Royal Garden” in front of you, according to the information marked by the auction house, this painting was painted by Thomas Kinkade Thomas Kinkade, with a starting price of 110,000 yuan.
But with Lin Xiao’s understanding of this painter, his paintings are not popular.
He touched the picture frame, and the recycling price was only 200,000, but the starting price dared to set at 110,000.
Shaking his head, he continued to look at the other paintings.
He saw Monet’s “Water Lilies”, marked as an imitation of a painter in the Eagle Country, this painter Lin Xiao had never heard of, and should be a contemporary painter with little fame.
The price is also not expensive, and the starting price is only 20,000 yuan.
“Sunflower?”
Standing in front of this famous painting, Lin Xiao was a little surprised.
Because this painting, the label is not an imitation, but “uncertain authenticity”, and the starting price is also outrageously high, reaching 3 million.
Lin Xiao stared at this painting for a long time before he could tell that it was an imitation painting.
But the level of imitation of this painting is almost at the level of undoubtedly the real thing.
Whether it is the paint, the drawing board, and the sense of age revealed by the whole painting, there is almost no difference.
Lin Xiao was a little surprised, the person who imitated the painting, the high level was a little outrageous.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is not a painting, but a series of paintings about sunflowers inserted in a bottle.
There are three, there are five, there are 12…
There is no clear quantitative count of how many “Sunflowers” Van Gogh painted. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) )
The painting in front of me can really be sold.
Even if you invite professional experts, or even extract pigments to identify, I am afraid it is difficult to identify the difference.
“Mr. Lin.”
Mr. Lu came over: “That seller hopes to sell 1.3 million.” ”
1.3 million…
What’s the difference between this and free free giveaway.
“Okay, wrap it up for me, I’ll pay later.”
“Okay.”
Mr. Lu had a smile on her face, she really didn’t expect that this painting could be sold.
She took out her cell phone and informed the staff.
After making the call, I saw Lin Xiao looking at this “Sunflower” and said: “This painting is very collectible. ”
Lin Xiao snorted and didn’t say anything.
What is the collectible value of a fake painting?
Of course, as long as no one recognizes it, this is a real painting.
From this point of view, the painting can actually be bought at risk.
But Lin Xiao still plans to collect it after all, so he must choose a real painting.
In case he is discovered later, it is easy to make people think that his vision is not good.
“Starting price: 50,000.”
Lin Xiao stood in front of an abstract painting and was attracted by the painting in front of him.
In the lower left corner of the painting are three English letters, AAP, and there is nothing else to fall into.
Therefore, these three English letters are the name of the painter.
Mr. Lv introduced: “This is an oil painting work that we collected from the moldy country, and our collector believes that this painting is the best abstract painting in recent years, although it is not clear the identity of this painter, but from the content of the painting, he is undoubtedly worth the price.” ”
A black line appeared on Lin Xiao’s forehead, and your collector didn’t know who the author of this painting was?
The fame of this author is not small.
He looked at the three letters and knew where the problem was.
The author of this painting is an Armenian-American painter Pinajian, who, like most painters, almost starved to death several times during his lifetime because he painted full-time.
but became famous after his death.
His painting, like the one in front of you, is worth about $2.5 million.
Apparently, the auction house priced the painting very low.
Thanks to this person’s payment, if he changes to a normal payment, he may not be able to see it today.
Although this painting is indeed beautiful from the content of the painting.
Playable collections, mainly depends on the author.
If the author is not cared for, no one will pay attention to the good painting.
The art collecting market is so cruel.
Choosing one in his heart, Lin Xiao continued to look at the painting.
But I didn’t come across cheap oil paintings again.
There is only one painting by Pinarean.
Auction houses that focus on Western oil paintings really have nothing to pick up.
Oil painting is completely different from domestic antiques, it is not a nature.
Buying an oil painting at an auction house generally has only two outcomes.
The first is pure fake painting.
The second is a proper real painting.
But either way, the price is not cheap.
Pina makes this kind of painting extremely rare for all Western auction houses.
Because no one will imitate a painting by a painter that no one knows.
AAP?
What the hell is this?
Who would imitate a 507 painting whose pen name is unknown?
“President Lu, let’s go and pay.”
“Okay.”
Mr. Lu followed Lin Xiao for a long time, trying to observe some from Lin Xiao’s eyes, but unfortunately Lin Xiao did not show any expression of interest in which oil painting from beginning to end.
Ten minutes later, Lin Xiao took the painting and took the elevator to leave.
As soon as he started the painting, he was sure that it was a real painting.
Half an hour later, Lin Xiao returned to the hotel.
As soon as he came out of the elevator and came to the door, he saw a familiar figure standing outside the room where he lived.
It was Mr. Yao, and two staff members.
The staff member held a painting in his hand, which was the “Lanzhu Picture”.
Hearing the footsteps, Mr. Yao looked back and saw Lin Xiao walking over with a painting.
Just as he was about to say hello, he saw the painting in Lin Xiao’s hand, and then he was stunned.
He looked at the painting in Lin Xiao’s hand stunned, and then looked down at the painting in the staff hand, these two paintings were exactly the same.
He was a little dumbfounded, what was the situation?
Immediately, his old face turned red, and he was a little afraid to look at Lin Xiao.
When he recommended Lin Xiao to buy this “Lanzhu Picture”, he knew that he had collided with Phillips’ painting, but he did not say.
As a result, Lin Xiao went to Phillips and bought another one.
This matter didn’t let him bump into it, forget it, bumped into it, don’t mention how embarrassing it is at the moment.
“Mr. Lin, this painting…”
Lin Xiao was a little surprised, but he didn’t expect to bump into him in the hotel.
He seemed to see Mr. Yao’s embarrassment, and said with a smile: “I just went to Phillips and saw a “Lanzhu Map”, does Mr. Yao know about this?” ”
Mr. Yao’s eyes fluttered, and he coughed lightly: “I heard about it on the way over.” ”
“Oh, huh.”
Lin Xiao smiled and didn’t care, it seemed that he was pitting himself, but in fact he took advantage of himself.
“My luck should not be so bad, how can one of these two paintings be real.”
“Well, yes.”
Mr. Yao quickly adjusted his mood and said, “Mr. Lin, this painting has been sent to you, then we will go back first.” ”
“Okay, Mr. Yao go slowly.”
Lin Xiao took the painting, Mr. Yao and several people turned around and left, walked to the elevator, the elevator door opened, they were just about to enter, and suddenly a group of people quickly walked out from inside.
These people were holding microphones in their hands, and someone behind them was carrying a camera on their shoulders, swarming outward.
Yao always looked at these people with some curiosity, and his eyes followed their footsteps.
“Mr. Lin Xiao!”
These people, who looked like media workers, saw Lin Xiao who was opening the door, shouted, and rushed up.
Lin Xiao put the painting on the ground, took out the room card, and was about to swipe the card to open the door, when he heard the words and looked back.
Then, these media reporters had already surrounded him, pointed long guns and short cannons at him, and under his confused gaze, asked: “Mr. Lin, we are reporters from the Beijing City Channel, can I interview you?” ”
Interview me?
Lin Xiao was puzzled: “What are you going to interview?” ”
The reporter said, “I heard that you purchased a batch of Shi Qi’s calligraphy and paintings at Chengxuan Auction House today, can you tell us what you think of Shi Qi’s paintings?” Why would you want to buy Shi Qi’s paintings? Are his paintings collectible? “。