Golden Fishery

Sorry, the update is a bit late, I worked overtime today. Don’t look for a reason, let’s update it tomorrow, to celebrate our little friends who have finished their high school careers and are about to usher in wonderful college students, we will start with two updates in the early morning, and continue with the remaining eight changes tomorrow\u0026\u0026\u0026\u0026

This oil painting is about one meter long and eighty centimeters wide, and it is well preserved without oxidative damage.

Billy slowly unfolded the drawing paper, and this oil painting revealed its true colors. The things on the painting were very simple. The upper part depicted a dark gray sky, and the lower part was a large number of crooked oak trees and shrubs.

Seeing this painting, Qin Shiou felt uncomfortable. He couldn't understand what was in the painting, but he could somehow feel that the atmosphere was too depressing. The color of this painting was too bleak, so bleak that it made people feel desperate.

And Billy gasped when he saw the oil painting for the first time, and then he tried his best not to shake his hands and flattened the raised corner on the right side of the painting, where there was a scrawled signature, Qin Shiou saw I didn't quite understand, so I looked at him and asked, "Whose masterpiece is this?"

"Van Gogh, Vincent William Van Gogh! This is "Sunset at Montmajour"!" Billy shouted nervously.

Hearing his cry, Qin Shiou couldn't help shouting: "What? Is this a painting by Van Gogh? Is it an authentic work?"

Billy pressed the oil painting with linen, closed the argon chamber and sat on the chair, waved his hands and said, "No, no, let's take a rest. God, I must be dreaming, I actually found the lost painting of Van Gogh? Sunset at Montmajour!"

Relatively speaking, Qin Shiou was calm. He said: "Don't be so excited, I remember that Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890? His paintings were not popular at all at that time. The Titanic sank in 1912, only After more than twenty years, how could his paintings be stored as treasures by someone suddenly?"

This information was all he knew when he first found those counterfeit "Sunflowers". He didn't know much, and later found out that it was a fake. I no longer know anything about Van Gogh.

Billy naturally knew a lot more. He gave Qin Shiou a white look, and said angrily: "Is it a lie that you are called the most unlucky artist of Van Gogh? Yes, for a long time, Van Gogh's works have not He was not accepted by the world. But ten years after his death, the world underwent a comprehensive innovation at the end of the nineteenth century, and people's thinking underwent an unprecedented change. The ability to accept new things has also been greatly improved, and the value of his paintings is It's starting to show."

After doing a brief art science popularization for Qin Shiou, Billy started to get busy. He called the company's oil painting appraisal expert to inquire about Van Gogh's paintings, and Qin Shiou continued to organize the safe.

He felt that there should be more than one painting like this in the safe.

As he expected, there was another thing in the agglomerated activated carbon in the box, but it was not a work of art, it was also a letter.

The handwriting of the letter was very illegible, and it was not in English, so Qin Shiou had to wait to show it to Billy.

After Billy hung up the phone, he looked happy, and he said to Qin Shiou: "Absolutely, this is the authentic work of "Mont Maju Sunset". I just asked someone to check it."

As he said, he introduced the journey after the birth of this painting: "This painting was created by Van Gogh in 1888, and he committed suicide two years later. This painting belonged to his brother Theo. In 1901, Theo put the painting It was sold to the Norwegian industrialist Musta, and Musta’s housekeeper later said that he kept the painting for about ten years. It was sold to a French nobleman in 1911, and there was no news about the painting after that. "

"Obviously, the owner of this painting wanted to bring it to New York, but it ended up on the bottom of the sea!" Qin Shiou finally said.

Billy grinned. Said: "That's right!"

After confirming the identity of the painting, the two began to discuss the value of the painting. Little Black was more authoritative in this regard, and Qin Shiou called him. Asked: "Man, if there is a real painting of Van Gogh, um, Sunset at Montmajour, how much would it cost?"

Little Blake said professionally: "Sunset at Montmajour? The painting in 1888? The auction industry has evaluated it before, and the price is between 40 million US dollars and 48 million US dollars. However, it was sold at Sotheby's in New York on the 4th of last month. At the autumn auction, "Daisy and Poppies", the last painting by Van Gogh during his lifetime, was sold for a high price of 61.8 million US dollars. In other words, the value of Van Gogh's paintings has increased a lot recently... and so on."

After talking a lot, Little Blake finally came to his senses and exclaimed on the other end of the phone: "God, you didn't discover "Sunset at Montmajou" did you? This painting has disappeared for a century!"

Knowing that this painting could sell forty to fifty million, Qin Shiou was very happy, and said generously: "You are very lucky, buddy, you will be able to see this famous lost painting soon. Besides, you have to pay for it again on your account." A large sum has been added."

"I will rush to your fishing ground tomorrow, wait for me, and I must keep this painting." After Little Blake finished speaking, his voice rang out from the phone, asking his secretary to book him the fastest one. Flights to St. Johns.

Qin Shiou put away the phone and told Billy about Little Black's valuation. The two clapped their hands in congratulations. Billy said excitedly, "Do you have champagne at home? We have to open champagne to celebrate!"

Qin Shiou stabilized his mind and said, "Don't worry, we still have a box, maybe there will be more valuable things in it."

"Even more valuable is John Jacob Astor IV's family emblem gold pocket watch, I would never think a violin case would contain such a thing." Billy laughed.

John Jacob Astor IV was the biggest name among the victims of the Titanic. At that time, the richest man in the world and the patriarch of the Astor family in the United States once hired a legion to participate in the Spanish-American War and help the United States fight . His death caused turmoil in U.S. Treasury bonds at the time, as he was the largest holder.

The two talked and laughed, and Billy opened the last piano case, which was an ordinary violin, brown and black in color. Although the case is well sealed, the strings are still rotten and there are some salt deposits on the body.

Qin Shiou believes that this piano must also have its legendary character, because the Titanic is a legendary shipwreck, and any item found on the ship has a story.

But Billy is right, no matter how precious this violin is, it is not as precious as "Sunset at Montmajou", and even he is not as precious as Nathan Strauss' family letter.

Don't underestimate the letter from home. A letter from the Titanic was auctioned before, and the price was 89,000 pounds.

The owner of the letter was Esther Hart, an ordinary British housewife who was preparing to immigrate to Canada with her daughter. And this one? This is a letter from Strauss' family, and the value of the two parties is incomparable. Not to mention the energy of the Strauss family, but what the old gentleman did on the shipwreck is worth doubling the value of this letter from home. A million pounds is fine!

After sealing up the two letters, the violin and the famous painting of Van Gogh, the two walked out of the basement talking and laughing. Billy joked: "We have to hire a special police to protect your basement."

Qin Shiou said: "Why do you need special police? I have instructors from Delta and soldiers from the special forces here. Most importantly, there are two groups of war geese who want to snatch things from me, dreaming!"

"War geese? What's that? Your goose flock?" Billy laughed.

Qin Shiou also laughed. He suddenly realized that Billy didn't know how powerful Taihu geese and lion-headed geese were, so he had some fun. (to be continued)