Chapter 628: The Shocked Appraiser

Qin Haodong said, "Of course it's true, Manager Tian, ​​I don't need to joke with you."

Tian Ye realized that he had lost his temper, and said quickly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, I'm just too shocked. Please forgive me."

"It doesn't matter, is it convenient for you to come over and identify me now?"

"No problem, I'll take the appraiser over now, please wait a moment."

Tian Ye hung up the phone and immediately called the appraiser Zhang Chaohui over.

As the largest auction house on Hong Kong Island, he has more than a dozen appraisers here, and Zhang Chaohui is the top one, and he is best at appraisal of ancient European paintings.

"What's the matter with the manager? I'm going to get off work soon, don't you want me to work overtime?"

A young man in his thirties walked in. He was Zhang Chaohui. He had an excellent relationship with Tian Ye on weekdays, so he didn't speak politely.

Tian Ye said: "Take the guy you ate with and come with me. There is an important collection that you need to identify."

Zhang Chaohui said, "Can't you wait for tomorrow? I managed to find a beautiful girl today."

"Of course I can't wait." As soon as Tian Ye pulled him up, he walked out, saying as he walked, "It's the old man's VIP who is looking for us for identification, and we must be careful to serve him."

The two got into the car and drove towards the Li family villa.

"These rich people really don't care about the lives of us working part-timers." Zhang Zhaohui sat in the co-pilot's seat, vented his dissatisfaction and asked, "What are you going to identify this time?"

"Pablo Picasso."

"what?"

Zhang Chaohui, who was still lazy, suddenly sat up straight, and then he lay back like a deflated ball and said, "How is this possible, who will sell Picasso's paintings now, I guess it must be this Rich people who don't have big heads are deceived by others, and they say that they painted a painting by Picasso."

It's not surprising that he said this. As the chief appraiser of the auction house, he has seen many rich people in recent years being deceived by those crooks, spending a lot of money, and buying a bunch of fakes.

Tian Ye said, "I don't know if it's true or not, so I brought you here. Let me tell you that this is a VIP that the old man especially likes. You must be careful when you speak and your attitude must be respectful."

As a professional manager, Tian Ye still has his qualities and did not reveal Qin Haodong's identity. Soon they came to the Li family's villa, led by Zhang Tieniu to Qin Haodong's room.

Knowing that a guest was coming, Nalan Wushuang went to the room inside to practice. He was the only one in the room.

"Boss, I brought the guests."

Zhang Tieniu stood respectfully behind Qin Haodong after speaking.

Tian Ye said: "Mr. Qin, this is Zhang Zhaohui, the chief auctioneer of our auction house. He is particularly good at identifying ancient European paintings."

"You two, please sit down." After Qin Haodong asked the two of them to sit down, he reached out and took a picture on the table. It was the nude sketch Nalan Wushuang had just seen.

"Mr. Zhang, please help me identify whether this painting is genuine Picasso."

After finishing speaking, he sent the nude sketch to Zhang Chaohui.

From the moment he saw Qin Haodong, Zhang Chaohui began to despise it, thinking that this must be the second generation of the rich who was deceived by others. In his opinion, Qin Haodong's painting is absolutely impossible to be authentic.

However, as a professional appraiser, he still has the basic qualities, and his expression is very serious. He took out the white glove from his pocket and put it on his hand, took Qin Haodong's painting, and then took out a magnifying glass to examine it.

Zhang Chaohui didn't pay much attention to it at first, but the moment he saw the painting, his whole person immediately became serious.

He didn't first check what was on the drawing, but first glanced at the sketch paper, folded it gently with his hand, and felt the hardness and flexibility of the paper. This is an excellent appraisal by an appraiser. the procedure to follow.

After checking the material of the sketch paper, Zhang Chaohui's expression became more and more solemn. He had already determined that the sketch paper in his hand was produced in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. He believed that this could not fool his eyes.

Now he can be sure that even if these drawings are not Picasso's work, they were copied in the last century, and in this sense they are ancient paintings.

Tian Ye watched from the side, and his expression became solemn. He has cooperated with Zhang Chaohui for many years, and he has seen some clues from the expressions of his friends. Now it seems that Qin Haodong's painting is definitely not ordinary. It is really Picasso's handwriting.

"Jacqueline, this is Jacqueline!"

When Zhang Chaohui turned his eyes to the naked woman on the scroll, he immediately let out a scream, attracting everyone's eyes.

Hearing the movement outside, Nalan Wushuang had no intention of cultivating, and came to the door to eavesdrop. She also wanted to see if these ancient European paintings made by Qin Haodong could still be faked.

Standing behind Qin Haodong, Zhang Tieniu couldn't help but pouted, these people from Hong Kong Island are really ignorant, aren't they just a woman with a bare bottom? What a fuss.

Now you can find a large number of small movies on the Internet. Haven't they seen them?

Zhang Tieniu was a layman, but Tian Ye knew a little bit. After hearing the name, he immediately realized that the woman in the painting was Picasso's last wife.

Picasso had countless women in his life, and Jacqueline was his last wife. During the 8 years that the two were together, although this old man had always had a mistress, Jacqueline accepted this, and the two of them have been working together to finish Picasso's life. the last days of .

Jacqueline created a warm world for Picasso in his later years, and Picasso often found inspiration from her and painted a large number of portraits for her.

Thirteen years after Picasso's death, Jacqueline committed suicide. After her death, Picasso's drawings and oil paintings for her flowed into the auction market, and the appreciation of Picasso's paintings was during that time.

It can be said that these paintings related to Jacqueline have helped Picasso's work to a higher level.

Qin Haodong also didn't know the woman in the painting, and was not interested in anyone. He just wanted to know if there were any flaws in his ancient paintings.

"Mr. Zhang Chaohui, have your identification results come out?"

Zhang Chaohui, who was obsessed with this sketch, came back to his senses and put down the drawing carefully, he grabbed Qin Haodong's arm, and exclaimed excitedly, "I guarantee my reputation as an appraiser. , this painting is absolutely real, it must be the hand of Picasso, and it is a portrait of his wife.

Dear Mr. Qin, can you tell me how this painting came from? "

Nalan Wushuang behind the door showed a smile, it seems that Qin Haodong succeeded again this time.

Qin Haodong was also very happy, smiled and said, "This is what I just drew."

"Uh..." Zhang Chaohui said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, I was too excited and offended your privacy."

As a good appraiser, asking the source of the collection is a taboo.

Even in the international art market, the authenticity of private transaction objects is not important, and the higher the society, the more attention paid to personal privacy.

Because of this, in Zhang Chaohui's opinion, Qin Haodong was mocking himself, and he wouldn't realize it was a truth anyway.

"It's nothing." Qin Haodong took three more scrolls and said, "Please help me identify whether these pictures are true or false."

He imitated Picasso's works and drew forty pieces, including ten human body sketches, ten children's sketches, ten still life sketches, and ten oil paintings. One representative from each group was taken out for Zhang Chaohui's identification.

Zhang Chaohui first showed a look of astonishment. Each of Picasso's works is now very valuable, and it is great to be lucky enough to collect one. I didn't expect Qin Haodong to take out four at once.

He took over the three paintings with an excited expression, and began to seriously identify them again.

Tian Ye also showed a look of astonishment. Yesterday, Qin Haodong said that he had some Picasso paintings, but he didn't expect that there were some, not just one.

If he knew that there were still 36 such paintings in Qin Haodong's drawer, he wondered whether the eyeballs would fall to the ground.

Zhang Chaohui was very careful in the identification. It took ten minutes before he raised his head and said excitedly: "Mr. Qin, you are really amazing, I can assure you that these paintings are genuine works of Mr. Picasso. , and it is very well preserved, with almost no flaws.”

Nalan Wushuang, who was behind the door, almost didn't laugh out loud, thinking that these paintings had just been freshly released, adding up to less than a few hours, and they were naturally well preserved.

After confirming that he had not left any flaws, Qin Haodong breathed a sigh of relief and said to the two of Tian Ye, "You two, I'm not very good at art, so please help me estimate how much these paintings are worth? "

Tian Ye said: "There is no specific price for artworks, but only estimates. About five years ago, there was an auction of seven Picasso sketch albums, and the price was $8 million at that time.

Although there are only 4 of these paintings of yours, you have a complete variety, including all types of Picasso paintings. If you make a picture album, and take into account the factors that have risen in art over the years, the value should be about 1,000. Between $10,000 and $15 million. "

"That much money?"

Qin Haodong was taken aback by this number. Although he knew that Picasso was famous, he did not expect his paintings to be so valuable.

"of course."

Zhang Chaohui took over the topic and said: "Picasso is a true artistic genius, the 20th century is his century, no artist can be as varied and well-known as Picasso.

Although he was a prolific painter, creating more than 60,000 works in his lifetime, this number is simply too small compared to the number of people in this world's collection.

When Picasso was alive, his tens of thousands of works were already in the pockets of others, and there were basically no works in circulation on the market.

It is precisely because of this that the value of Picasso's paintings is created. "