Golden Fishery
19. Poseidon's Food
The fun of the banquet lies in participation. Qin Shiou didn't eat much, but was very happy.
About a week after the PARTY ended, Qin Shiou received a call from Little Black. Ricci Auctions had done a good job of promoting it. April 18th was their highlight of the year, the spring auction.
Among auction houses, spring and autumn auctions are the most important. Spring auctions prepared by auction houses such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Hong Kong Hengde are also held these days. It can be said that at this time of year, the A collector's feast.
There is always a bidder in every auction, and this time the bidder at Ricci Auction House is Qin Shiou’s bronze statues of Perseus and Medusa.
The appearance of this statue caused an earthquake in the European collection circle. There are not many works by Cellini, the father of Seiko. Today, after nearly five hundred years of natural and man-made disasters, even fewer survive, especially his large-scale works. Bronze sculpture.
For the engraving world, the significance of Cellini's work is not inferior to that of the "Mona Lisa" for the painting world, especially in the late 19th century, when this statue was lost, Now that it has been retrieved again, it naturally adds a bit of legend.
The Black family naturally invited Qin Shiou to participate in the auction. The venue was a five-star hotel in Ottawa. The local government used special police to assist the auction house in security work. Everything seemed grand and formal.
Before the auction started, all the auction items were displayed in the exhibition hall, and Qin Shiou watched it together accompanied by Little Black.
A total of 48 works of art participated in this auction, including paintings and calligraphy, wood carvings, bronze carvings, pottery, porcelain, furniture, gold and silverware, and miscellaneous antiques.
At the scene, the most attention is naturally the bronze statue of Perseus and Medusa. A group of old guys with thick glasses surrounds them. Everyone has a magnifying glass in their hands, staring desperately at it. Statue, can't wait to put this thing in the eye.
Qin Shiou looked around and saw another Picasso portrait called "The Head of a Woman". He studied it carefully and felt that the painting was similar to the graffiti he painted in kindergarten. "It's much uglier.
This gave him some confidence, and he felt that as long as this "Head of a Woman" was there, the price of "Woman with a Golden Drum" would not be low.
There is a saying to say, don't be afraid to compare goods if you don't know the goods, the painting of Biyi is not bad.
If Qin Shiou couldn't appreciate Picasso's paintings, then another painting he saw made him feel crazy - that painting was called "Calcium Hydride", and it was some neatly colored circular patterns of different colors. Arranged on the canvas.
"This thing, isn't it also a work of art coming to auction?" Qin Shiou asked Little Black suspiciously.
Little Blake shrugged handsomely and said, "You guessed it, yes, it is."
Qin Shiou didn't want to show his ignorance in public, but he couldn't help rolling his eyes: "If it's not that God is crazy, then the collectors are crazy!"
Little Blake explained with a smile: "It's normal if you can't appreciate it, but I have to introduce you to this painting by Damien Hirst, the most expensive contemporary artist in the UK. ."
Qin Shiou doesn't want to say more, if contemporary art is to draw circles on canvas, then he should go to appreciate Chinese landscape paintings, that is the real art!
After a few glances, he was about to leave, but when he walked past a statue, he suddenly felt a throbbing deep in his heart.
This is a feeling that I have never had before. If I have to describe it, it is the thrill of the soul. Under the control of this feeling, Qin Shiou stopped and looked at the statue beside him.
The image of this statue is an apple, about the size of an adult fist. The specific texture is not clear, similar to a wax block, but more turbid, gray and yellow, and not very beautiful.
Little Black is a shrewd businessman. When he saw Qin Shiou stop to look at the apple statue, he asked, "Why, are you interested? This is a good little thing. According to the analysis of carbon fourteen, it was born in the 18th century. A real antique."
For some reason, this thing has a strong attraction to Qin Shiou, or in other words, this thing has attracted Qin Shiou's heart of the sea god.
However, Qin Shiou didn't want to reveal his true thoughts, so he said disdainfully: "This is also an antique? Oh, God, I was stimulated too much today - no no, it should be said that I learned too much today. "
Little Blake smiled happily: "Come on, Qin, your eyes have already told me your true thoughts, you really want to get it, right? In fact, your eyes are very good, don't look at this little thing's appearance. Well, its value lies in its identity, do you know what texture it is? Ambergris!"
What exactly is ambergris is still a mystery so far. Modern Western scientists have analyzed it and said that it is just the residue of the intestinal obstruction of whales. In the middle and ancient times of the East and the West, this spice was regarded as a treasure.
Qin Shiou took a few more glances at the apple statue, and then entered the venue to prepare for the auction. After he sat down, Little Black introduced him to a middle-aged man with gold-frame glasses, who introduced himself as Alan- Brandon is a financier.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the auction started on time, and the first auction item turned out to be the modern artwork "Calcium Hydride" that Qin Shiou disliked very much.
What shocked Qin Shiou was that this picture, which he saw as a nonsense, was sold for a high price of 2.4 million Canadian dollars!
"Could it be that Lao Tzu's art appreciation level is so poor?" Qin Daguan was a little frustrated.
In contrast, Alan Brandon next to him was in a more extreme mood. He gritted his teeth and said, "Shit! Are these guys crazy? This is a piece of rotten cloth! A piece of rotten cloth that deserves to go to hell. They are willing to spend 2.4 million to buy it! Everything is shit!"
Qin Daguan looked at Alan Brandon in astonishment. Is this uncle hating the rich?
Immediately, it didn't take long for Qin Shiou's things to appear, and the first thing to appear was the painting of Arthur Pinajean.
As a result, there was an embarrassing scene for Qin Shiou. So many portraits were put together, but no one paid attention. You must know that at the beginning of the auction of "Calcium Hydride", at least five or six collectors were competing to bid.
The reserve price for these portraits was 1 million Canadian dollars. The auctioneer shouted several times, and finally two young American painters jointly won the paintings at the starting price.
Then another blow came. Two Picasso paintings were auctioned one after the other. The first one was "Head of a Woman", which Qin Shiou disliked.
The starting price of this painting was 6 million Canadian dollars. As soon as the price was thrown out, a Russian collector raised the price by 500,000 yuan. After that, there were many people bidding sporadically. Finally, the transaction price of this painting reached 860 yuan. million Canadian dollars.
Next came "Woman with a Golden Drum". As a result, the starting price of this painting was only 1.8 million Canadian dollars.
Qin Shiou's face suddenly turned ugly, and Little Blake hurriedly explained and whispered: "Don't get excited, man, "The Head of a Woman" is Mr. Picasso's mature work, and your painting is just a casual painting of his transition period. You You must know that Picasso is a prolific artist, and there are tens of thousands of his surviving works. To be honest, the price of your painting is not low."
However, Xiao Blake comforted Qin Shiou again: "I received a call just now, I have asked a friend to sell your imitation painting "Sunflower", and sold it to the New York Museum for fifty-four million Canadian dollars."
This news made Qin Shiou smile immediately. He had lost all hope of the fake painting, but it was able to sell more than half a million Canadian dollars, which was a windfall.
During the exchange between Qin Shiou and Little Black, the auction for "The Woman with the Golden Drum" also started.
After all, Mr. Picasso has a lot of face. Although the value of this painting is not optimistic, several collectors from Russia and the Middle East are still fighting for it. In the end, a wealthy businessman in the United Arab Emirates bought it for 1.8 million Canadian dollars. down this painting.
About ten works of art were auctioned, and the auction began to rest. After returning, the ambergris apple, which Qin Shiou was very concerned about, started the auction.
Coincidentally, the name of this ambergris apple turned out to be 'Poseidon's Gourmet', the auctioneer said: "This is a gift from the sea. We once consulted Professor Blake-Hasson, a marine expert at the University of Toronto. According to his textual research, This work of art is an offering to the sea god by fishermen in the 18th century... Its starting price is - 1.6 million!"
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