"Why is he here?" Tony also saw the old man sitting in a corner, and couldn't help but whisper to Fang Yi. ()
When Fang Yi heard this, he quickly asked: "Who is this person?".
"A polymath, his research direction is ancient books, usually playing with ancient books and unique books! The Germans are among the best in their own fields." Tony said to Fang Yi and looked back.
"Playing with books?" Fang Yi turned to look at Tony, and then turned his attention to the old man, thinking to himself: You old guy has nothing to do, why are you here holding up a sign if you don't go back to read your books?
Li Lin raised his hand and whispered in Chinese to Zhang Xu: "Old Zhang, you are so happy to hold up this sign!".
It turns out that when buying something, you have to think carefully about it. Even if you start a company and become your own boss, Li Lin still retains this little habit of saving. Today at the auction, he kept holding up signs to buy in front of so many people.
The scraps immediately gave Li Lin a feeling of generosity as a nouveau riche.
Before I finished speaking, I heard someone paying out 60,000 yuan.
"Seventy thousand!" Li Lin didn't hesitate at all. He waited for the photographer to ask if there was more, but before the word "more" could be said, he raised his hand again.
"Eighty thousand!" The old man didn't seem to be showing any signs of weakness.
However, it was obvious that more than one person in the venue knew this old man. At the second bid of 80,000, another man in the venue bid a price of 100,000 US dollars.
"One hundred and fifty thousand!" Li Lin turned his head, with a calm expression on his face. He still seemed to say it nonchalantly. But under this appearance, Li Lin's other hand was placed on the chair.
Already started to sweat.
This price is 50,000 yuan higher than the original expected auction price, exceeding 50%. It turns out that people like Hashimoto thought that 100,000 US dollars should be laughed at. All in all, this thing is still worth it.
Fake!
The old man hesitated for a moment and waited for the photographer to shout for the third time. When he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and shouted: "Two hundred thousand!".
"Calm down, this is only a small amount of money!" Zhang Xu patted Li Lin on the shoulder, motioned for him to raise the sign, and then shouted: "Two hundred and fifteen thousand!".
After paying the price, Zhang Xu smiled at the old man Fang Yi. Two hundred and one hundred thousand is two hundred and one hundred thousand. It's a bit playful if you bring five thousand. It seems that you are preparing to fight with everyone.
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Now the old man's face became serious. He seemed to be still thinking about whether to take action. When people who knew the old man saw this, they did not bid for the time being and seemed to be ready to wait and see what would happen.
The old man gritted his teeth when he heard the main photographer shouting three times. He was about to hit the wooden hammer. His face was no longer calm at the beginning, and his whole face started to turn red. I don't know how determined he was.
It seemed like he shouted out 220,000, which was 5,000 more than Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu was not polite and directly raised the price to 250,000. As soon as the price came out, the old man shook his head and sighed.
Just when Li Lin was happy, the person who intervened called out the price of US$260,000.
"Three hundred thousand!" Zhang Xu was not polite. The man who had paid 260,000 said it as soon as he finished speaking. Without waiting for the main photographer to ask, he put up the sign.
"Three hundred and one thousand!".
"Four hundred thousand!" Zhang Xu directly followed up with the price of four hundred thousand US dollars without hesitation. He quoted the price and then tilted his head and said to Li Lin next to him: "Do you want to call the next one? Let's get one hundred thousand dollars."
One hundred thousand plus!".
At this moment, Li Lin finally understood that for something worth millions or tens of millions, a few hundred thousand would be considered a piece of cake! It turned out that he only looked at the money and did not think about the benefits. Now
After calculating the incoming and outgoing accounts, with a profit of ten or twenty times, what can Li Lin dare not do?
However, Li Lin was ready, and his face regained confidence, but he had no chance to bid.
The person who is bidding now knows the old man, knows that what the old man is interested in may be a good thing, and wants to follow suit. But he is not an old man after all, and he doesn’t know where the bottom line should be. He doesn’t know!
The old man gave up when he paid 220,000 yuan. Now that this thing has reached 400,000 yuan, whether to buy it or not, and how much he will lose after buying it, this person has no idea. What if he pays the price, these two Asians let go
What should I do? The two people in front of me have never raised the price, and the means they used to raise the price are also quite unreasonable.
After thinking for a while, he looked up at Zhang Xu and Li Lin, smiled at them and tilted his head to indicate that he would not argue.
"Four hundred thousand once!"
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"make a deal!".
When the wooden hammer fell, Fang Yi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He got a forgery for 400,000 dollars, which was a mallet, but he got a Meville imitation for 400,000 dollars. It was considered a big deal no matter what.
earn.
"Is Lin Hexu crazy?" Tony looked at the cheerful Li Lin and Zhang Xu and whispered with his mouth open: "How can a forgery cost so much? Four hundred thousand dollars?".
After speaking, he turned to Fang Yi and asked: "You didn't tell them that such a copy is not worth 400,000 US dollars! Even the museum's certified copy is worth 400,000 US dollars!".
What Tony is talking about is that generally foreign art museums use copies of works copied by artists and sell them. They bring the museum's certificate and the artist's certificate of authentication, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. The copyist must also have a certain standard.
of.
Tony bought this thing for 400,000 US dollars, but Tony felt it was not worth it.
Fang Yi turned around and said happily to Tony: "I'll have a nice talk with you after it's over!".
After the delivery is completed and the painting is in the hands of Zhang Xu and Li Lin, it will be a nail in the coffin. Then tell Tony.
And now the unlucky emperor's things are about to come on stage, and Fang Yi is also ready to stretch out his hand.
However, Fang Yi only paid $1 million for Zhao Ji's work, so he gave up on "Sketch of Rare Birds"! It's not that Fang Yi's $1 million was too much, but Fang Yi didn't think it was necessary. Because there was a person in the auction
The Chinese and the Japanese were at loggerheads. It seemed that this person was bound to win, so Fang Yi withdrew from the Three Kingdoms War. He felt that it would be better for him to spend one million dollars to replace the poor children in the country with white rice and big chicken drumsticks.
A little better.
The final transaction result was a little less than 2 million yuan, which is more than 10 million yuan. This "Sketch of Rare Birds" by Zhao Ji fell into the hands of a Chinese collector.
As soon as the auction session ended, Zhang Xu and Li Lin immediately communicated with the auction house, and after that, they had the painting in their hands.
As soon as Fang Yi saw the two of them exiting the handover room door, he immediately greeted them. Before he and Tony could say hello, he saw that the old man who had just bid had already greeted them with a grunt.
"Excuse me, gentlemen! Why did you spend such a high price to buy this work?" The old man asked as soon as he stood next to Zhang Xu and Li Lin. This question was very rude and this action was also very rude.
.And this is a bit unkind. This is an auction house! There is no reason why only you are allowed to buy and I am not allowed to bid!
After hearing this, Zhang Xu couldn't help but look at the old man and asked with a cold face: "Why? Can't I buy it?".
Zhang Xu lost more than 300,000 US dollars in vain to this old man. As soon as he saw the old man, he thought about it and felt uncomfortable. When he heard the old man's tone, he was not willing to talk to him!
After listening to the translator translating these words, Zhang Xu and Li Lin walked around the old man and walked towards Fang Yi.
"Got it!" Zhang Xu came in front of Fang Yi and patted the work in the leather case.
Fang Yi opened the leather case and stretched his head to look inside, then nodded with a smile and closed the leather case.
"This painting is very precious?" Tony finally saw the clue now.
Zhang Xu nodded, and then pointed at Fang Yi: "We heard him say that this is a copycat of Mayville. He has no interest in it, so we just picked it up and played with it!".
"Meville?" Tony simply couldn't believe his ears. He didn't look at the painting first but turned to look at Fang Yi and asked with a surprised look on his face: "You knew this a long time ago?".
"Sorry! I couldn't tell you if I didn't watch them get this thing!" Fang Yi explained to Tony.
Tony nodded after hearing this: "I can understand." He and Fang Yi are friends, but they are just friends. They are not even close friends, and the two of them are not that close. Fang Yi has no obligation.
Say this to yourself.
"Are you really sure?" Although Tony believed in Fang Yi's ability, he couldn't help but ask again.
"How are you sure this is a copy by Melville!" The old bidder did not leave. After hearing what a few people said, he immediately came over and asked directly.
Fang Yi was very unhappy after hearing this. The smile on his face suddenly disappeared. This old guy was acting like a maggot attached to his bones. This made Fang Yi very unhappy. Zhang Xu also raised his hand.
Ready to drive people away.
"That's what York is like!" Tony recognized this old man and quickly stopped Zhang Xu and spoke to several people. After that, he introduced the old man to Fang Yi and the others.
This old man Fang Yi can tell at a glance that he is the kind of person who is obsessed with it. He spends his main life immersed in the world that interests him. He doesn't care much about interpersonal relationships, which is what ordinary people call a nerd.
, People with low emotional intelligence. As long as such people like a profession, they rarely fail to do well.
"You haven't answered my question yet!" The old man obviously just dealt with Tony's introduction. He waited for Tony to finish his words before asking Fang Yi, which made Tony feel a little embarrassed when he just put down his hand.
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Fang Yi looked at the old man and asked: "Tell me how you saw it first!".
"I didn't understand everything, I just deduced it from a sentence in an out-of-print book!" Old York opened his mouth and said to Fang Yi. It turned out that the old man saw an ancient book with only one sentence written on it, and
It also seems to be some kind of bad poetry: Mayville's Rubens and so on. Anyway, it's just this sentence. I don't know how an old guy like York can deduce that Mayville wrote Rubens.
After hearing what happened during this period, Old York felt that this so-called interview painting was probably a copy of Mayville's. He had been thinking about this matter and heard that this work would be auctioned in New York, so York came up with what he could
All the money I got came.
Why didn't you take the picture? It's because the money in your hand is limited and you only have this little money in your pocket! When I shouted out 220,000, the old man had already paid for the travel expenses. If he had been allowed to take the picture tonight,
The old guy is about to sleep on the streets of New York with his paintings.
So sometimes you have to be strong even though you know you are a leak. After talking about his own affairs, York looked at Fang Yi.
Fang Yi smiled and said, "I was stunned the first time I saw it!" Anyway, I saw it was a forgery at the first sight, and at the same time I knew it was made by Mayville.
"How to prove it?" Tony was more concerned about this.
"Use a polarizer to look at it! But the light requirements are a bit more special." Fang Yi continued. Now there is nothing to keep secret about this thing. Once it is in Zhang Xu's hands, it belongs to both of them. Once the handover is completed, it will be
It has legally and reasonably become the property of Zhang Xu and Li Lin.
"Then let us take a look here?" Tony said immediately. This is Softby's place, and such equipment is of course indispensable. Tony was really itchy and couldn't help but suggested.
Fang Yi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed after hearing this: "Sofubi is really going crazy!". Sofubi was really unlucky to meet Fang Yi during this period. As long as Fang Yi caused a trap, the filming industry would be ruined.
I jumped one on the left and one on the right. This pit had nothing to do with Sofoby, but it jumped out of it.
During the time when he met Fang Yi, Suo Fubi behaved like a completely unlucky child!
After listening to Fang Yi's words, everyone except Old York understood it and couldn't help laughing. (To be continued...)