At Heathrow International Airport in the United Kingdom, speculator Austin Dawson boarded the flight to the Pearl of China with his assistant Danny Lynch. Unlike others, Dawson immediately heard the news that Fang Yi was famous.
I applied to the Chinese embassy for inbound travel. Thinking of avoiding other speculators, I went to China as soon as possible to try to attract the attention of Fang Yi, a rising star in the art world.
This was the first time for both of them to go to China, and they brought with them 400,000 euros that they had scraped together. They wanted to go to China to "go big" and try to buy as many of Fang Yi's works as possible.
"Boss, is it enough for us to bring 400,000 euros?" Danny turned to his boss with a little worry.
Austin Dawson nodded with certainty and said: "It's less than halfway through the Venice Biennale, so the news has not spread to China yet. I have been paying attention to their country's mainstream media, and they have not mentioned it.
Regarding Yifang’s performance at this Biennale, what kind of Biennale are the Chinese people currently busy holding?”
"What double party?" Danny asked curiously.
"It should be equivalent to a meeting between the House of Lords and the House of Commons!" Austin opened his mouth and said: "This matter is very important in China, and they have no time to care about Venice!".
"Oh!" Danny nodded and said. Although he had doubts in his heart, he still didn't ask. China's upper and lower houses of parliament stopped reporting on Venice during meetings? Is there any connection between the two?
At this time, Austin closed his eyes and said to his assistant: "Take the time to rest on the plane. As soon as we arrived in China, we gathered the translators and started working immediately. Now we are racing against time!".
The assistant heard a hum in his ear, and Austin began to close his eyes and rest.
Austin was fully prepared for this trip to China. The 400,000 euros in his pocket made Austin confident, and he directly purchased the number of Fang Yi's early works to the baseline of fifteen. In the end,
The good result is of course that the more the better, at least ten should be purchased! I thought that even if ten works were brought to Europe by myself, and then exchanged for colorful notes, the net profit would be two or three times that of 400,000 yuan in one change of hands.
Millions! Austin is a bit passionate and passionate. He can’t help himself!
Sometimes you have to admire these foreign devils, they dare to go to a completely unfamiliar country to hunt for gold just because they smell money!
The two foreign devils over there are dreaming of getting rich and are happily running towards China. There are also donors in China who want to save some of Fang Yi's works in advance and wait for them to appreciate in value. But these people are not blind, understand.
After a quick glance, we knew the situation of Fang Yi's works. Everyone thought that they could buy one or two pieces from certain channels and keep them in their hands.
With this idea in mind, the first person he came to was Zheng Xiaopeng’s Jinpeng Gallery! Ever since Fang Yi became famous, Zheng Xiaopeng’s cell phone has been almost exploded by some people! The media doesn’t report it, but it doesn’t mean that these people have no news.
, when I heard that Fang Yi was famous here, some people over there smelled the fishy smell and immediately smelled Zheng Xiaopeng’s place!
Ding dong ding! Hearing the ringing of his cell phone, Zheng Xiaopeng subconsciously wanted to shake his hands. Answering the phone these days has almost driven him out of his mind.
"I'm talking about Mr. An! Why are you joining in the fun when you have nothing to do! When I hear the phone ringing now, I'm a little frightened." Zheng Xiaopeng answered the phone, greeted An Xiaojun and opened his mouth.
An Xiaojun was looking at the two works hanging opposite his desk at this time. One was of course "Forest Studio" imitating Liu Hongshuo's style. The other was "Morning Woods".
Looking at these two works now, especially "Morning Woods"! An Xiaojun just wanted to slap himself hard! At that time, he thought 200,000 yuan was outrageous. If he bought it, others would say he was taken advantage of. Looking at it now, he definitely felt that he was being taken advantage of.
He can’t be taken advantage of anymore! My brain was kicked hard by a donkey at that time!
Obviously I just like this group of four paintings, so what does a total of only 800,000 mean? I just waved my hand and walked out? Why did my brain suddenly short-circuit! It's my fault that I still appreciate some art works all the time.
I like it! When I talk about it, this painting is a mockery of myself!
"Stop complaining, this is also a kind of happiness, don't you think?" An Xiaojun looked at the painting and said to Zheng Xiaopeng on the other side.
"Hey! If I had paintings in my hand, I would be happy, but now I don't have any!" Zheng Xiaopeng said directly, "I don't even have a single work by Fang Yi! I can't hang up the phone yet, in case someone wants to sell it now.
Where are the works in the gallery!”.
"Ah!" An Xiaojun opened his mouth and asked: "So all Fang Yi's works are sold out now? Are these people so quick?"
"What's the matter? Originally, our gallery didn't have Fang Yi's works. He only sold them on consignment. The only two works he bought from us were your two works! Just laugh! Now the rest of Fang Yi's works are in his studio.
It’s there!” Zheng Xiaopeng said.
An Xiaojun looked at the "Morning Woods" on his wall and said: "Then I ask you to do me a favor! This "Morning Woods" is also hanging alone. Can you let me collect it?
Live! Don’t worry, you decide the price! Even if it’s sold to Fang Yi for the current price of 300,000 cents, or even a little higher, I’ll admit it!”
Now the remaining three paintings have simply become a knot in An Xiaojun's mind. As soon as he saw the one in front of him, he thought that he had missed the other three! At that time, he said he was helping Zheng Xiaopeng or something, but now it seems
I am a complete fool!
"I asked Mr. Liu, and he also asked Fang Yi for me! Now Fang Yi doesn't want to sell the painting! I have no choice!" Zheng Xiaopeng continued to complain.
An Xiaojun immediately said: "Use your brain! I don't care about playing the emotional card or anything else. Xiao Zheng, you have to let me put together this group of works! What does this lonely painting look like!"
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Zheng Xiaopeng opened his mouth and said: "What can I do if you don't try Fang Yi's contracted gallery, the one in New York!".
Saying this, Zheng Xiaopeng thought in his heart: Do you still want to collect a group of Fang Yi's paintings? I also want to collect all of Fang Yi's paintings, where can I get them now! They are determined not to sell them, so what can I do?
Of course, Zheng Xiaopeng, a businessman, was concerned about making money. He called more than once and even went to Shicheng to talk to Liu Hongshuo about this issue. However, after Liu Hongshuo called Fang Yi, he asked the student if he wanted to sell. Fang Yi just wanted to
After a while, I directly told the teacher that I didn’t want to sell it. In the past, I only sold one painting for 200,000 yuan, and some people said I was crazy! Now that I don’t lack the money, why sell my previous works!
"Then give me their phone number!" An Xiaojun gritted his teeth and said. Listening to the number reported by Zheng Xiaopeng, An Xiaojun knew that it was almost nine o'clock in the morning in the United States, so he specially found an employee who spoke good English.
Called it.
Zou Heming received the call and was not interested at all. He immediately rejected An Xiaojun's proposal. Now you still have three hundred thousand dollars? Go home and go to bed! Zou Heming now wishes that all Fang Yi's previous works were in his hands.
In this way, only Fang Yi’s existing works will appear on the market, and prices can be better controlled.
Nowadays, the preliminary works of Keshima and others are constantly coming to the market, which is enough to give Zou Heming a headache! Although they are previous works, but they are wandering around in the market, the prices will always have some impact on the current works. Except for Fang Yi
, now more than two hundred pieces of works by Keshima and Rude have flooded into the market, making Zou Heming very upset! Why would he sell Fang Yi's previous works and cause trouble for himself!
After hanging up the call from China, Zou Heming worriedly called Fang Yi in Venice to get vaccinated.
"Fang! Today a Chinese customer called and said that he wanted to buy the remaining three paintings from your previous set! I refused! You must ensure that less of your earlier works flow into the market!" Zou Heming was waiting.
As soon as the phone call came through, he opened his mouth to Fang Yi and said: "Unless the person you are selling to will not let the work flow into the market in the short term!"
After hearing this, Fang Yi thought about the people in China who bought one of his paintings except An Xiaojun. However, Fang Yi was not interested at all in selling the remaining three paintings to him.
He opened his mouth and gave his agent a guarantee: "Don't worry! There won't be many of my works on the market! No more than three! It's still connected to those in China."
There are about a dozen or so of my works that have come into the hands of individuals, and most of them will not be sold. I can’t let my uncle sell the family portrait for money! The rest are in the hands of Zhang Xu and my sister.
, and there is Xu Shize in the capital. I don’t know if it is in the hands of his uncle or uncle. How can these people sell it?
With An Xiaojun's intelligence, it is even more impossible for him to sell his works at this time. It is too late to buy them. There is also Sun Chengfu left. This man is not short of money. His fame will only make him hold on tighter.
. Take it out to show off to others what Fang Yi has thought of, but for sale, Sun Chengfu will not take it out until he is too short of money!
Fang Yi didn't know that his masterpiece, which was several meters long, had changed hands. Sun Chengfu, who he thought wouldn't sell it, didn't even realize what he sold for three thousand yuan. If he knew about it, Sun Chengfu wouldn't know anything.
reacted.
Paris has several works of his own, but Charlotte cannot do it first. As for Benjamin and Guan Fangfei, what they have in their hands are only sketches. Guan Fangfei is not short of money, and it will not be a big deal for Benjamin to sell them!
Fang Yi knew it pretty much after just a quick calculation.
"That's good!" Zou Heming finally felt relieved after hearing this.
"Don't worry about me, just worry about the four of them! The works I keep at home already have a destination and will not flow into the market," Fang Yi opened his mouth and said.
After becoming famous, Fang Yi had several phone calls with his teacher, asking him to take back the works he had purchased before, and even asked Wei Jin and Tao Yong to send them to the teacher, but Liu Hongshuo refused. However, Fang Yi insisted again and again and asked Liu Hongshuo to
After thinking of an idea, Fang Yi heard the teacher's idea and thought it was a good idea, and planned to do the same with the remaining works of his. Therefore, the remaining early works will not be able to reach the market at all! (To be continued...)