After Fang Yi finished speaking, he turned to a piece of work and carefully admired this work from Giorgio Vasari. Most people are not very familiar with this work. His famous masterpiece is a series of murals.
, and he was also a student of Michelangelo...
Tony took Fang Yi and started walking around the exhibition hall. After almost an hour, Fang Yi discovered a problem.
"Why are there no visitors coming in?" Fang Yi asked Tony while looking at the deserted museum.
Tony looked at Fang Yizhi and said cheerfully: "You just happened to be on our closing day when you came today!".
Upon hearing what Tony said, Fang Yi immediately smiled and said, "Then it's a coincidence that I came here!" Fang Yi would not be so pretentious as to think that Tony would close the entire museum just because he was coming. To be honest, I'm afraid of such treatment.
There is not even the Prime Minister of Italy. Even if dignitaries from various countries come, the vigilance work will be more detailed. It is unlikely that the museum will be closed to the public.
After saying these words, Fang Yi saw several bald or hairy heads not far away gathered together, following him almost five or six meters away.
"Who are these people?" Fang Yi asked Tony.
Tony immediately waved to these five or six people, and these people immediately walked towards Fang Yi and Tony.
"These are some of the appraisers in our museum!" Tony introduced them to Fang Yi one by one.
Fang Yi naturally had a smile on his face and exchanged greetings with these people one by one.
"We've almost finished looking at the paintings. Let's go look at the undisplayed paintings?" Fang Yi turned to Tony after exchanging pleasantries with the museum appraisers.
After listening to Fang Yi's suggestion, Tony nodded and said jokingly to Fang Yi and several appraisers: "When I was following Fang, every time he stood in front of a work and paused for too long, I felt like
I'm a little undecided. I've long wanted to hear you say go to the collection room!"
"Am I so scary?" Fang Yi said to Tony after laughing with several appraisers for a while.
Tony stretched out his hand and made an invitation gesture to Fang Yi: "On display in the museum are some of the best collections of our museum. If there are a few fakes, it will be a big blow to us! I still don't think I want it.
It would be great to experience the experience of being a curator of a Japanese Western art museum!”.
After hearing this, Fang Yi also joked to Tony as he walked: "Don't worry, if you also have Vermeer's works here, I will definitely tell you!".
Following Tony into the warehouse, Fang Yi knew that this place was similar to the Versailles Museum where he had stayed. The so-called warehouse was not built underground, but on the third floor of the museum hall. After passing several doors with security guards,
Fang Yi and others arrived at the so-called warehouse of the museum.
The works in the warehouse are not all placed in wooden boxes. Many of the works are hung on the walls or on shelves. This kind of shelf is a bit like a holder for a slide show, and each work is like a
The slides are placed on the holder one after another. The reason why they can be placed like this is because the temperature and humidity here are guaranteed to be within a certain range.
Tony took Fang Yi and several appraisers to look at several works. They were all authentic! However, they were not as famous as the authors of the works hanging outside. They were all painters with some minor names. Most of them were living
More than 150 years ago. It may be said that it is far away, but it is not far enough. It may be said that it is close, but it is not too close. It has a little reputation, but it cannot be put on the stage. Generally speaking, it is not as good as compared to the previous one.
There is more than enough.
Although many of these people's works may have been high-priced or sky-high at the time, the vast majority of their works now only cost around 70,000 to 80,000 US dollars, and the best ones only cost 6 to 700,000 US dollars.
This is even if someone particularly likes this work.
The paintings did not arouse Fang Yi's interest. Then let's discuss the so-called appraisal with these appraisers and show some works. Fang Yi started to talk about what he understood. Of course, as a person who has made fake
Master. And Fang Yi still has some hard things in his mind, so it’s not too difficult to talk about these things.
After communicating with this group of people for a whole day, when Fang Yi came over again the next day, he found that more people came to listen to his story today.
The way people talk has also changed. Today, Fang Yi is not giving lectures alone. In other words, Fang Yi cannot enjoy the admiration and respect in the eyes of the group of people yesterday that made Fang Yi intoxicated.
Instead, some people kept asking Fang Yi questions, and most of the time it turned into a question and answer session.
After talking like this for almost an hour and a half, he took a break. During this time, two more people joined in. It was only during the second break that Fang Yi realized that among the few extra heads today, in the end,
The two people who joined didn’t think too highly of their own standards!
Yes, it's this feeling of being looked down upon. Fang Yi felt it when he asked and answered just now.
But Fang Yi doesn't want to take this matter to heart. There are always some people in this world who just don't like you. No matter you are famous or not, these people exist objectively.
As for the claim that these two old guys were arranged by Tony, Fang Yi didn't believe it. Although Tony was a bit stingy in Zhang Xu's words, he was not stupid and would not do anything to make enemies of himself. If it were true,
Tony arranged it, and Fang Yi could only feel that his eyes were useless.
After everyone had finished resting, everyone gathered in front of a piece of work again. Fang Yi raised his head and was stunned for a moment, because this piece of work was not the one Fang Yi saw just now, but had been replaced by someone else's.
Made a new work.
Now hanging on the wall is the work of French Fauvist painter André Derain.
Although Derain's works are said to be works, this one is not very outstanding, or it cannot even be said to be outstanding. If you want to exceed his current highest market price of 6 million US dollars, you can't even think about it. It is only 4 to 5 US dollars at most.
It costs about one hundred thousand dollars, not to mention that it is not an original but a forgery.
To say that imitation can be considered a good imitation, this is of course good in Fang Yi's opinion. Fang Yi can tell the authenticity at a glance without even thinking about it in his head. Fang Yi has seen such imitations in
After seeing the Madonna statue, I really couldn't arouse much interest in it.
Fang Yi was a little confused about replacing this thing, and then turned to look at the two old people who didn't seem to be interested in him. If it weren't for the fact that these two old people were too old, Fang Yi would also like to
It shows a little bit of the traditional virtues of the Chinese people and a little bit of respect for the elderly. Of course, the more important thing is that Fang Yi wants to maintain his consistent high-ranking image in the eyes of the world. For the above points, Fang Yi
I'm just a little unhappy now and don't have anything special to show.
"Mr. Fang, what do you think of this work?" The old lady named Rosa among the two asked Fang Yi.
Without waiting for Fang Yi to speak, Tony spoke first: "Mr. Fang is good at classical works, but not very good at Fauvist works!".
This sentence saved Fang Yi. When he saw that the work on the wall had been replaced by a painting by André Derain that he had never seen before, Tony felt that his head had grown a little bigger.
How could Tony not understand these two people? As mentioned above, there are all kinds of people in this world. No matter how professional they are, there are always some people who feel good about themselves! And these two old guys are very old and have great ideas.
It’s hard to follow him. To put it bluntly, sometimes he may unknowingly bring out a meaning that makes people think he is racially discriminatory. In other words, sometimes the words he says are inappropriate.
Ordinary people wouldn't be able to do anything against these two old men, because the things they can do are not that big. However, Tony doesn't see this matter that way, because he knows that Fang Yi is not an ordinary Chinese or a Chinese who likes to shrink his head when things happen.
Fang Yi is easy to talk to about some things, but when it comes to provocation, he is not a vegetarian. If you look at Fang Yi, one of the standard ingredients is a lawyer. You can tell that he is different from other Chinese people who only seek lawyers when something happens: this person is not afraid of lawsuits and
There is no shortage of money for lawsuits, a standard Western-style difficult group of people!
Besides, Fang Yi's reputation is here now. If the two old men say something without any restraint, and then Fang Yi's lawyer interprets it, then his museum will be in trouble.
Thinking that these two old guys seemed to be planning to do something, Tony had a headache, and he was already ready to curse the two old pig heads: You two idiots are just older and live longer,
Do you really think that Fang Yi is the guy who delivers Chinese food on the street? He just turned around and left after you scolded him a few words?
Fang Yike did not expect that Tony was afraid that today's matter would turn to racial discrimination. Fang Yi could not imagine that it was not because Europeans always talk about equality. If you don't believe it, just look at the Spanish media and you will know. It was because of Fang Yike.
Yi didn't think that his skin was any worse than that of white people. On the contrary, Fang Yi thought that he was still hairy and didn't smell much, so he was more evolved! Of course, Fang Yi never expressed this idea.
Seeing what Tony wanted to say, Fang Yi smiled and stretched out his hand to stop Tony. He looked at the old woman who was speaking and said, "What's so good about a fake and inferior work?" After speaking, Fang Yi still said
He looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Anyone can tell the level of imitation!" Fang Yi looked at the expressions on the two faces, feeling a little embarrassed, and added.
As soon as Fang Yi said this, the old lady looked at the old man next to her with some doubts. She probably asked in her eyes: Didn't it mean that he was not good at distinguishing modern art?
The old man looked at Fang Yi and couldn't help but ask: "You can tell it's a fake just by looking at it?".
"You're already at this level, and you still can't tell?" Fang Yi himself has imitated a lot of things, and this one really can't even reach his own level. To be more conceited, Fang Yi can say that he is the only one.
The quality of the imitation teacher's work is better than this person's. How can I not see the reason? In some cases, the imitation master must also be the appraisal master, and there is a thin layer between the two professions.
The paper cannot be any thinner.
Fang Yi wanted to stab two more, but the old man named Alfred took out another work from his hand, lifted it up and asked Fang Yi: "What do you think about this work?"
!".
"Imitation!" Fang Yi said directly after taking one look. After speaking, he walked one meter away from the old man, took the work from the old man's hand and looked at it carefully for less than a minute before returning the painting:
"It's much better than the imitation above. I guess they were imitated one after the other, and they were made by the same person!".
"How is that possible!" The old man immediately shouted to Fang Yi when he heard it: "This work was bought from the auction house and has been authenticated...".
"Auction house?!" Fang Yi couldn't help laughing after hearing this.
Upon hearing Fang Yi's statement, Alfred couldn't help but want to refute, but his mind couldn't help but think about the things that happened to the photographer in front of him during this period. Moreover, he was the number one photographer in the world, and he was not part-time.
The auction house is comparable.
"It's okay, that's it for today!" Tony immediately started to stir things up.
After speaking, he turned his body sideways and raised his hand to Fang Yi: "Fang Shengsheng, I'll take you out! Let's talk while we walk."
Now that Tony said so, Fang Yi had no interest in staying here any longer, so he followed Tony out of the museum.
"I'm sorry! I didn't know they would come to do this today!" Tony said.
"It's nothing! I've already dealt with Popile, why are you mentioning these two?" Fang Yi said confidently.
Seeing that Fang Yi didn't seem to be too unhappy, Tony felt relieved and sent Fang Yi to the roadside to watch Fang Yi get into the car.
After staying here in Italy for another two days, Tony opened two old thorn balls when Fang Yi went to the museum.
Things seemed to be going very smoothly. Fang Yi was about to finish his work in Italy. When he was giving the museum appraisers some knowledge on crack identification of imitation turtles, he saw an employee walking in with someone behind him.
Looking at the two people.
"Are you Mr. Fang?" The two of them walked up to Fang Yi and unfolded their ID cards to Fang Yi. It turned out that they were police officers. (To be continued...)