As an employee of a bank in Werna, Patrick has always come to work on time and left work on time. He honestly has not asked for leave a few times since he started working. Although Austria's economy is now a little better than that of Europe as a whole, it is not that good.
Where to go, and the unemployment rate is now rising steadily. These things have put a lot of pressure on Patrick. If he can't keep his current job, he wants to find another job. How can it be so easy in the current economic situation?
"Patrick! Look at these rich people. The compensation for reputational damage is 30 million US dollars." During lunch, a colleague shook a magazine at Patrick and said.
Patrick didn't care about the affairs of these rich people because they were too far away from him.
"Look at this painting. This Chinese liar painted this painting to support us for a lifetime. If I had such ability, I wouldn't mind being a liar at all!".
Patrick turned his head and looked at the painting in his colleague's hand. After a quick glance, he felt that it was a bit familiar. The whole page of this magazine was filled with color pages printed with Fang Yi's imitation. Next to it was the painting in Lauder's hand.
Patrick stared at the remnants for a while, and felt that a gray painting inside looked very familiar, as if he had seen each other on different levels.
"What kind of work is this?" Patrick opened his mouth and asked his colleagues.
"Rembrandt's work "The Rebellion of the Batavians", this piece is said to be a lost part. This piece is the original that is now in the museum. The largest piece is something that the Chinese imitated. Now everyone
Everyone suspects that this matter is a scam jointly created by the American and the Chinese!”.
After taking a few glances, Patrick was about to immerse himself in drinking his soup. As soon as the spoon was brought to his mouth, an idea flashed in Patrick's mind, and he remembered why he felt that this thing was so familiar. He was exactly
I grew up looking at the same thing. The painting that looked similar to the broken painting in the magazine was hanging in the room of my small farm.
Thinking of this, Patrick immediately put down the spoon in his hand. He asked his colleague to come over and carefully flipped through the magazine. After reading the entire article, Patrick asked his colleague: "Is there a larger picture like this?"
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"Do you want to see this?" Looking at Patrick and nodding, his colleague opened his mouth and said, "You can search it online. This painting is so famous now."
The next time he went to work, whenever he had free time, Patrick would think about the things hanging at home. When he was waiting to get off work, he immediately picked up his coat and walked towards the door. Patrick's unusual behavior made his colleagues a little bit nervous. I was a little surprised, looking a little puzzled at the figure of Patrick who always waited ten minutes after get off work and would finish almost all the things at hand before leaving.
After getting in the car, Patrick dialed his cell phone and called his wife: "Edith, I'm going to the farm, I might be a little late!" Hearing the cry of his daughter who had just been born,
Patrick asked: "Sapina is crying again?".
His wife Edith replied with a smile: "It will be fine in a moment. You should go home early and be careful when driving on the road."
"I know" Patrick said a few words to his wife and started the car. He drove towards his family's old farm. Patrick inherited this small farm from his deceased father, but because Patrick didn't like the poor life on the farm.
I moved to the city and now rent the farm to others, giving me a sum of money every year.
It was almost eight o'clock when we arrived at the farm, so I took down the painting on the wall. After chatting with someone for a few words, Patrick drove back in the car. It was already eleven after going back and forth.
At o'clock, when Patrick returned home, his wife had already gone to bed with the child.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Edith got up from the bed and saw her husband returning to the living room holding a picture frame. She looked at the contents of the picture frame and asked, "You went to the farm just to get this?"
Where are you going to hang it when you come back?".
"No, I have some questions." Patrick said to his wife. Then he put the painting in his hand and walked towards the small room, where his computer was placed. He turned on the computer and started searching for what his colleagues said.
I searched several times for that work but none was big enough. It took me almost half an hour to find a large one. It looked like something I brought back from the farm. I kept zooming in to look at it. Look at Patrick’s eyes.
It lit up. Because the things I got back were very similar to the things drawn by Chinese scammers.
Edith walked over to her husband at this time, took a cup of coffee and put it on his table. She looked at the things on the screen and said in surprise: "Why does this look so like the painting you brought back?"
"The painting in our home may be an authentic work by Rembrandt and is part of a work." Patrick told his wife his speculation.
"You mean this is a work by Rembrandt?" Edith looked at her husband in disbelief and asked.
Patrick nodded: "Yeah, but this is my guess. Tomorrow I want to send this thing to the museum for identification before I can be sure." At this point, Patrick felt a little hungry and said to his wife.
: "Is there anything to eat at home? I haven't eaten anything tonight."
"Yes, I'm going to heat something up, maybe a piece of chicken breast, and I'm going to make you a hamburger." Edith quickly turned around and walked towards the kitchen at home.
After eating, taking a shower and going back to bed, Patrick turned off the light but couldn't fall asleep. He thought that if it was true as he speculated, the things that had been passed down for two or three generations in his family were genuine works by Rembrandt, and he would now
Life will be much easier. If you save a little money, maybe it will be enough for a lifetime. The economic crisis and unemployment have nothing to do with my family.
With such a dream, it was not until three o'clock in the night that Patrick fell into a deep sleep. After only sleeping for three or four hours, Patrick got up at about six o'clock in the morning, turned on the computer again, and turned on the computer.
I looked at the Chinese imitation one more time, then called the company, asked for a morning off, and drove towards the Werner Museum with the painting.
After arriving at the museum and handing the painting over to the appraisal expert, Patrick naturally returned to the company and continued working. While working, he nervously waited for news from the museum.
If this work of Patrick's appears really timely, it will be like a timely rain not only for Fang Yi, but also for Lauder. The appearance of this work will immediately clean up the liar hanging on the two foreheads.
The name vindicates Lauder's work and provides good evidence for Fang Yi's imitation.
This work passed down from Patrick's family has always been regarded by his family as the work of an unknown abstract painter. It was originally placed vertically on top of Rembrandt's work, and the light of the original painting in the museum can already be seen on the lower part.
Because I didn’t see any characters or anything.
It was just some crazy brushstrokes, and it looked more pleasing to the eye horizontally than vertically. It has been hanging on the wall of the farm like this. For two or three generations, people did not think this painting was worth more than the farm. Liberty did not think of appraising it.
Let’s find out whose work it is and who would spend such a waste of money.
Within two days of staying in the office, Patrick received a reply from the museum, telling Patrick that the fragment of the painting he was holding was most likely a piece cut off by Rembrandt. He also offered to take it to Sweden.
to compare it with the original "The Rebellion of the Batavians" in the museum. Because the painting in Patrick's hand can be seamlessly connected with the original in the museum when it is put up.
As for the final result, of course it was as Patrick wished. The work in his hand was proved to be part of Rembrandt's "The Rebellion of the Batavians". The media who got the news immediately spread the news, and the new
Part of it has been discovered! This news is now flying from one media to another as if it has wings.
Soon the news flew all over Europe and across the Atlantic. Comparing the brush strokes in Patrick's fragment, and the color at the top, and comparing it with the damaged fragment in Lauder's hand, Lauder's
That piece was also confirmed to be genuine.
With the proof of two authentic fragments of paintings, the value of Fang Yi's imitations has been further enhanced, because the walls, brush strokes and layout on the fragments are very similar to Fang Yi's works. Now even some art critics
Artists and appraisers all looked at Fang Yi's imitation with admiration, and commented on the inference part of this imitation: the shape is generally similar, and the level of the imitation of Rembrandt's work is not much different from it.
Fang Yi had never thought that because he had completed Rembrandt's works on a whim, it would cause such a big disturbance. The whole incident lasted until almost Christmas. Generally speaking, it can be called a series of twists and turns. But in the end
The result is indeed very satisfying, hello, hello, hello everyone!
Lauder proved his vision, got an apology from the tabloid, and received confidential compensation. He was no longer a fool or a liar, but a shrewd art investor. The most unlucky investment in his life.
It has become one of the most satisfying art investments.
Patrick sold the missing piece in his hand to a museum in the Netherlands for an unknown price. However, as soon as the boy got the money, he changed it to a bigger house and a brand new car, and he was very happy.
He moved in with his wife and daughter who was only a few months old, which shows that this amount is very satisfactory to him.
As for what Fang Yi gained, it was his reputation and his superb skills in imitating Rembrandt's works. How can an artist who can paint Rembrandt's works so well and deeply understand Rembrandt's creative thinking be so critical in appraising Rembrandt's works?