The last stall that made Mr. Tang nostalgic was the place where paintings and calligraphy were sold. A bearded old man sat on a stone bench, surrounded by some scrolls. There were both Eastern and Western scrolls, and most of them were Western oil paintings. In this old man with a beard
There is also a large cardboard box next to him. From the top, it can be seen that most of the things stored in these cardboard boxes are scrolls or unframed sketches.
Zheng Yating herself still has a certain level of appreciation for oil paintings. In her opinion, among the bunch of oil paintings, there are not a few that are really good. Most of them are just average, even graffiti. As for the oriental scrolls, there are
A few landscape paintings are quite good. Could it be that Tang Fei took a fancy to these paintings?
After Young Master Tang squatted down, his fingers did touch those landscape paintings, but after looking at them for a while, he turned his eyes to those oil paintings that did not look very good to Zheng Yating...
After looking at it for a while, he said to Zheng Yating: "Tell this old gentleman that these paintings are very good, but the hotel I want to open needs a lot of these paintings. Ask him if he can sell all the paintings in the box."
Give us."
Zheng Yating was stunned when she heard this, Tang Fei is going to open a hotel? Why didn't I know?
Of course, she quickly realized that this was probably just a method or strategy of Young Master Tang...
In Western countries, it is popular to hang some authentic oil paintings in many high-end hotels. For example, in the Burj Al Arab Hotel where Mr. Tang and his friends stayed, all the oil paintings hung are authentic. No matter how much a pair is worth, it will at least be worth it.
The auction house is no problem...
Of course, most hotels cannot reach their level, so the next best thing is to buy some oil paintings from some vendors or directly from some unknown painters to hang. Even if they are not valuable works, they are still valuable.
Authentic...
Zheng Yating quickly started talking to the old man, pointing to all the oil paintings on the ground and the box next to the old man, indicating that she wanted them all...
After a while, the two seemed to be quarreling. Zheng Yating stood up angrily and looked at Young Master Tang and said, "Tang Fei, let's go..."
Young Master Tang was immediately depressed when he heard this. He hadn't bought anything yet, so why were he leaving? What was going on?
"What's wrong, Tingting?" Young Master Tang asked.
"This man...this man has a big mouth. He makes me so angry. He will definitely take us for granted." Zheng Yating said angrily.
The lion opens its mouth?
How much money does it take to make Zheng Yating so angry...
But in Young Master Tang's heart, no matter how much money this guy wants, as long as he doesn't ask for billions, he will consider it...
"How much does he want?" Young Master Tang asked.
"One million... pounds, this is pure blackmail!" Zheng Yating said.
One million pounds? That’s less than 10 million yuan?
Is it expensive to buy these things?
No, of course not, in the eyes of Mr. Tang, it is simply too cheap to be cheaper...
However, in the eyes of others, such as Zheng Yating, it is really unacceptable to spend 10 million to buy such a bunch of things from street stalls. This guy's price is really cruel...
However, Young Master Tang can also be sure that he does not know the value of the things inside. Otherwise, it is not a problem that can be solved with only 10 million. Even if multiplied by ten, it will not be enough...
Of course, Mr. Tang did not directly tell Zheng Yating about this issue, nor did he wave his hand and say: "Buy!"
Otherwise, spending 10 million to buy such a bunch of oil paintings from street stalls would be abnormal...
"Did you ask him why he asked for such a high price? Or did he say that a certain painting here is particularly valuable, so that's why it was sold for such a high price?" Young Master Tang asked.
"I asked, and he said those landscape paintings from China are very expensive," Zheng Yating said.
Young Master Tang chuckled when he heard this. It seemed that this guy didn't understand the market, but thought he didn't understand the market. He even regarded himself as one of those 'patriots', so he asked for such a high price...
Those landscape paintings are indeed authentic, but most of them are painters from the Qing Dynasty, and they are not famous. At least the author of these paintings, Mr. Tang, has never heard of them, and he has not given any high praise for his abilities.
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For Young Master Tang, these landscape paintings are not worth mentioning at all. Some of his collections are better than this. The art treasures he needs. Even in China, this kind of painting is estimated to cost one hundred thousand yuan.
Wow, it actually costs hundreds of thousands of pounds, it’s really crazy...
There are many successful businessmen in China who, when they go abroad, see their country's cultural heritage being left behind, many of them can't bear it, so they buy it at a high price and then send it back to the country. This has led to many lawless elements abroad taking advantage of these people's patriotic mentality.
Deliberately driving up prices, allowing merchants to buy things at several times or even dozens of times the price...
Obviously, in Young Master Tang's opinion, this bearded man regards himself as those people...
"Tell him that we don't want those landscape paintings anymore and want the rest. Ask him how much they cost..." Young Master Tang said.
"No more?" Zheng Yating raised her head and looked at Young Master Tang...
In Zheng Yating's opinion, Master Tang must have gone through so much trouble just for these landscape paintings, so why don't they want them anymore?
Zheng Yating was puzzled. He knew that Tang Fei was very accurate in reading cultural relics and made almost no mistakes, but they were all domestic things. I didn't hear when he became proficient in oil painting...
"Well, no more." Mr. Tang nodded.
Zheng Yating squatted down again, pointed at the landscape paintings and started mumbling. After a while, Zheng Yating stood up and said: "Take all the two hundred thousand pounds, except these landscape paintings."
"Okay, give him two hundred thousand." Young Master Tang nodded.
Although it is an exaggeration to say that such a bunch of things on the street stalls are worth two million, but compared to the income, the effort of just a few million is definitely worth it!
Zheng Yating nodded when she heard the words and directly swiped her card through the POS machine. At this time, except for Zheng Yating, Ahu and Abao were already full of things...
Arranging all the oil paintings in the box, Young Master Tang held the box, Zheng Yating carried the bag, followed by A Hu and A Bao, took a taxi and went straight to the hotel...
After returning to the hotel, Young Master Tang first put all the things he bought in the room, and then directly had the things delivered to the room. After a delicious dinner, Young Master Tang couldn't wait to start sorting out what he had gained today...
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Zheng Yating, who had been tired for a day, looked at the excited Young Master Tang and couldn't help but smile: "Tang Fei, if anyone knew that you spent half a million pounds to buy these things in front of the museum, they would definitely publish the new model in The Times the next day.
The theme of rich people."
"The Times? Haha, I don't want to be in the Times newspaper, otherwise everyone knows my face, how can I miss it?" Young Master Tang said with a smile.
"Speaking of picking up leaks, apart from the mirror, you didn't pick up many today..." Zheng Yating pursed her lips and smiled.
Family background, Mr. Zheng also likes antiques. Although Zheng Yating's level is not high, judging from the money we talked about today, she also knows that Young Master Tang actually does not gain much...
After all, if they were truly cultural relics worth hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds, they would have been sent to Sotheby's a long time ago. How could they be sold on these street stalls?
"There weren't many at the beginning, but I think these oil paintings will bring us surprises." Young Master Tang said with a smile.
"Do you really know about oil painting?" Zheng Yating asked curiously.
You must know that many cultural relic researchers in China only know some simple things about oil painting appraisal, and even do not understand oil painting at all, because there are very few oil paintings in China. Only in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, there was a court painter Lang Shining who specialized in portraits of the royal family.
The art form of oil painting only emerged in China.
However, as far as the country is concerned, there are a few well-known oil painters, but it is already amazing that one of their paintings can sell for two or three thousand, which is only two or three hundred when converted into pounds...
"It's not that I understand, it's just that my intuition is very powerful." Mr. Tang smiled.
"Are these oil paintings genuine?" Zheng Yating asked.
"I can confirm that these oil paintings are not fake..." Mr. Tang said with a smile.
"There are no fakes? It's impossible. I also know a little about oil paintings. I feel that the quality of these oil paintings is not high..." Zheng Yating said.
"Haha, Tingting, does the quality of authentic paintings have to be high? Famous painters have high standards, of course, but what about ordinary painters? As long as they don't copy, everything they paint is considered authentic." Young Master Tang said with a smile.
"Uh, you mean these oil paintings are actually the same as what I saw, they are all very ordinary oil paintings?" Zheng Yating asked.
"Yes, they are very ordinary. The real artistic value of these oil paintings may not even be worth 20,000 pounds in total, because they are not that old and the painters are only average. Such oil paintings are estimated to be only worth a few dollars in the market.
Ten pounds, some of them are of good quality and can be worth hundreds of pounds..." Mr. Tang commented.
Zheng Yating's eyes widened when she heard this. Since these oil paintings were so worthless, why did Tang Fei ask her to buy them for 200,000 pounds?
"They are worthless and have no collection value. Why did you buy them? Why did you spend so much money?" Zheng Yating said a little depressed.
"Of course there is something good in it!" Mr. Tang laughed.
"Is there something good in it?" Zheng Yating became even more confused after hearing this...
"Just watch..."
Young Master Tang smiled and took an oil painting over, took a sip of tea, and then sprayed water evenly on the oil painting, spraying twice in a row, mist-like water droplets were dispersed finely on the entire oil painting...
After a while, the water droplets were sucked into the oil painting, and the color on the painting became darker than before. It was obvious that its surface was wet...
Seeing this scene, Zheng Yating seemed to have some feelings. She remembered that Tang Fei said that the "Nine Peaks of Snow" he had missed seemed to be a painting within a painting...
But now Tang Fei seems to believe that this oil painting is also a painting within a painting...