Without waiting for Artur to speak, Keshma said to Fang Yi: "A week ago, Artur and I went to the University of Southern California to give lectures to students. When we came back, we happened to meet a young man about eighteen or nineteen years old.
A man took a seven or eight-year-old girl to set up a stall on the roadside. There were several paintings in front of the older child, including this one! The little girl was buying lemon juice she made..."
"Then you bought this work?" Fang Yi looked at his two friends and said, touching his forehead. This work looks like a Rubens, but it's just a resemblance. It's not the real work of the big-ass master.
Moreover, this imitation painting did not take long to complete. It could have been completed within one or two years at most. Two of my friends were deceived!
Artur said: "We saw that this work was a bit strange, but we did not try to take advantage of the two children. Instead, we told the older young man about it and asked him to find someone to spend some money on.
Just take off the work on top and take a look, maybe the one below is a good one!"
Painting on painting is also a common practice for oil painting. Some artists are lazy and just cover their previous paintings with paint and then start new paintings, but generally speaking, these are practice works. Listen to Artu
After you said this, Fang Yi understood that my friend did not have the ability to see clearly the painting below. However, he still kindly wanted to remind the child to wash off the paint on the painting and look at the painting below.
Keshima took over and said: "The paint on it was already very thin at that time, and the Venus below was about to reveal its color form. Artur and I looked at the color of a small piece of it.
I feel that the author of this painting is not simple. Naturally, I have to remind the children not to sell the treasure as a piece of cake!"
"How did it end up in your hands, Artur?" Fang Yi was a little confused now, looking at his friend and asked. Both of them said they would take the child back. How did it end up in Artur's hands again?
On hand.
"The young man said that this work is for sale on behalf of someone else. If we like it, we can buy it. If we don't like it, don't get in the way of our own business!" Artur said.
"When Artur and I heard this, we got a little angry. We kindly told the young man, but he didn't know that the young man didn't appreciate it at all! We talked to the young man again, but he didn't know that the young man didn't appreciate it at all.
His attitude has never been good..." Keshima said to Fang Yi.
After hearing this, Fang Yi couldn't help but said: "So you bought this work when you were angry?". Looking at the two people, they nodded and asked: "How much did you buy it for?".
"Eight thousand dollars!" Artur stretched out his hand and gestured to Fang Yi.
Keshima explained: "At that time, this half-year-old child said that we are causing trouble. If we want to buy it, it will cost us 8,000 yuan, not even a penny less!".
"I got it. I got it!".
If there is anything unclear about this, the two of them kindly reminded the young man selling the painting that the work was good, but the young man who 'didn't understand painting' couldn't listen at all, and he had a bad temper and charged a high price.
.And these two friends of mine are also wealthy owners. Eight thousand dollars is a lot for ordinary people, but to these two, it is not even a small amount of money. Naturally, they gave it to the young man with one hand.
fraud!
"Are you saying that this painting is fake and that young man is a liar?" Keshima looked at Fang Yi's expression and now finally confirmed that Fang Yi had determined that the work Artur bought was fake.
Fang Yi nodded and said: "This work is very similar. It is difficult to tell the authenticity at a glance without any instruments. However, there are still some holes in the brushstrokes. The painting was not firm and accurate enough. It is just extremely
It's just small." Fang Yi stretched out his hand and clicked one or two spots on the Venus looking in the mirror.
Fang Yi can see these two things now, but Keshma and Artur can't. Even though they can't see it, they still believe in their friends' eyesight. As long as Fang Yi says it's a fake, it must be a fake. Now
Fang Yi is not called the master of appraisal in the painting world for nothing.
"Fortunately, it's only 8,000 yuan!" Fang Yi could only say this. His friend was still a bit naive. If he hadn't gone around with that young man at that time, he would have understood the unreasonableness as long as he thought about it.
There are really too many. To put it bluntly, this young man is like a domestic
The liar first took advantage of the professional knowledge of Keshima and the two, and then began to guide their thinking, and kept guiding them inadvertently, making them unable to stop and think about the rationality of the matter, constantly irritating them, and ensuring that
The two of them would not let go and finally came to terms with each other.
Fang Yi looked at the two of them and said: "Next time something like this happens, as long as you think it is true, give me a call first, and then wait for me to go to the scene to see it!".
Looking at the two old friends, Fang Yi thought to himself: I once picked up the leaks in the picture. You two were so excited that you thought you could also pick up the leaks? Where in the world are there so many leaks for you to pick up? I
I only picked it up once or twice with the automatic discriminating device. I didn’t know how many galleries I looked at later, but I couldn’t find another one. Besides, even if you are picking up missing items, you have to have some knowledge about identification.
Tell me, how different are you two from laymen?
After thinking for a while, Fang Yi asked the two of them: "Is this young man's stall located near the art village?".
"Yeah, how do you know?" Artur's IQ was a bit lacking in this area, so he subconsciously asked this question.
Keshima sighed and explained self-deprecatingly: "If it wasn't close to the Art Village, where else in Los Angeles would you find so many painters!".
"Take me to see where you are!" Fang Yi asked Keshima and the two.
"Isn't he still there?" Artur asked Fang Yi.
Now this simple old boy figured out that he had been defrauded of eight thousand dollars. However, this incident did not make Artur angry. Not to mention annoyed, there was no sign of anger on his face. Originally, Artur's temper
He is the best among a few people, and the eight thousand dollars is really nothing to him. In other words, eight thousand dollars is no longer worth the anger of the linearist master Artur.
Fang Yi smiled and said, "As long as this person is brave enough, he will still stay there! I'm going to see if he is brave enough to seek death."
Didn’t Comrade Ma say that if capital has a 50% profit, it will take desperate risks. If I have a 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all the laws of the world. If I have a 300% profit, it will dare to violate the law.
Commit any crime, even risk being hanged.
Fang Yi doesn’t know if the current profit will allow this painting seller to trample on the law, but Fang Yi believes that if he does something like getting something for nothing, he will become addicted. Even if he wants to change places to continue this trick, except here in Los Angeles, it seems
There is no place for him to perform.
Keshima nodded and said: "Then let's go and take a look!".
After listening to Keshima's words, Fang Yi nodded and walked towards the door.
The three people got into a car, and Artur drove Fang Yi to the place where he met the painting buyer. Fang Yi didn't see anyone, he only saw a small wooden table being placed on a small fork.
Among the lawns on the edge of the road, this is the most important intersection of the road leading to the painter's village. There are also many people coming and going at this time.
Of course, the current painter's village is not as famous as before. It seems to be developing towards the Montmartre Heights in France. It is not only painting, but also has a bit of tourism, but it is not as commercialized as Montmartre. Even if
If you want to commercialize it, it depends on Zou Heming's intention, because almost all the nearby wasteland has the surname Zou.
It is precisely because of this that this road, which used to not have many people, now has more people coming and going than before. There is a gas station nearby, which means it is several times more prosperous than before.
When the car drove to the gas station, Artur shouted into the gas station: "Billy!".
As soon as the voice fell, a fat black man stuck his head out, saw that it was Artur and the other three and said hello.
"A week ago there was a young man with a child..." Artur asked.
"Oh, you mean Steven and Ellie?" Billy asked. He looked at Artur and nodded before saying: "They were still there in the morning, and they must have gone home now. They didn't come here all day long.
But just two or three days a week!”.
Fang Yi interrupted and asked: "Do they still sell paintings?".
"Sell it! Are you interested in his paintings?" Billy immediately became curious when he heard what Fang Yi said, but as soon as he got excited, he was suppressed by his own reason.
"Not interested at all!" Fang Yi shook his head and said, "I just heard they said there were paintings selling here, so I stopped by to take a look!".
After exchanging pleasantries, the three of them drove away from here and headed back to Artur's house.
"Then let's come back next time?" Artur asked Fang Yi.
Fang Yi said without thinking: "Forget it, I'm just more curious today, I'll talk about it later!" After confirming that this young man was still coming, Fang Yi had no interest in meeting him anymore.
"What do you think of his copying?" Keshima asked Fang Yi.
Fang Yi thought for a while and said: "If I were to give points, I would give ninety points out of one hundred to the person who copied!" This is a pretty good score. Of course, without such a score, it is impossible to get ahead of Kexi.
Horses and Artur's Eyes Go.
"Do you think it was the young man who painted it himself?" Artur suddenly thought of this and asked the two of them.
Keshima seemed to be a little interested when he heard it: "Then let's take a look in two days!".
Fang Yi is not very interested in whether this young man painted it. It's not that he has no talent in painting such a young man. On the contrary, if he can paint such a similar Rubens, he would be talented at the age of eighteen or nineteen.
It's not a small job, but Fang Yi doesn't like to interact with such arrogant people, because such people are always in trouble. (To be continued...)