Soul Painter

April 14.

Ms. Chen Liangling, vice president of Christie's Hong Kong region, personally presided over the auction of Gao Fan's first mask group painting in this Christie's Spring Auction.

"... I believe that everyone knows Mr. Gao Fan's name very well, and he also knows that the devil school creation technique he created has been called the pinnacle and transcendent work of painting art in the new era, and "American Art" praised it as the masterpiece of modern painting art. Revolutionary and leader, at the same time, not long ago, "Time" magazine also invited Mr. Gao Fan to be the cover character, and he is also the second oil painter in Asia to appear on the cover of Time Magazine..."

At the auction, the auctioneer would not introduce the artist in a long way. After all, the threshold and deposit of the auction are here. Anyone who sits in the auction hall with sincerity should know something about the artworks and artists in the catalogue.

However, Ms. Chen Liangling introduced Gao Fan at a considerable length.

"At the same time, I am also very honored to be the auctioneer of Mr. Gao Fan's first work in this spring auction, because a year ago, in Xiangjiang, I presided over the auction of his other two mask-themed paintings, " There are a total of 16 themed paintings of "Mask", which are classic works of Mr. Gao Fan's demonic painting style, and the other four paintings will be exhibited in this spring auction."

Chen Liangling said with a smile that she was still in Guardian a year ago as the vice president of Guardian, but now because of her excellent business ability, she has switched to Christie's. Although she also holds the position of vice president, Christie's business is all over the world. Different.

"It can be said that Mr. Gao Fan is the artist with the most investment value in recent years. I believe that the collector who photographed the other two mask-themed paintings a year ago has a deep understanding of this. Okay, now this "" "Indifference" has officially started shooting, with a reserve price of US$13.5 million, and each bidding unit is US$100,000."

Following Chen Liangling's words, the other three main venues of Christie's Spring Auction also began to simultaneously broadcast the auction situation at Xiangjiang. At the same time, bidders in the other three main venues and hotlines from all over the world will be connected to Xiangjiang Auction in time. Chen Liangling from Taiwan, this is a truly global auction.

The last time Gao Fan's "Falsehood" and "Infatuation" were taken together, it took less than 20 million RMB.

Now the starting price of "Indifference" has reached nearly 70 million RMB.

That's why Chen Liangling said that Gao Fan has "the most investment value", and his art investment has increased seven times within a year, which is unique in the field of modern painting.

The auction entered a hot state in an instant.

After all, the pursuit of Gao Fan in the global art market has not yet been satisfied.

This is the first public auction of Gao Fan's work after he became famous all over the world after the creation of "Bostonian".

"Mr. No. 33 bids 13.6 million, Ms. No. 4 bids 14 million, Mr. No. 13 bids 14.5 million..."

With his unique contagious body movements and passionate tone, Chen Liangling began to drive the atmosphere in the auction room, and soon the bidding price climbed to 18 million US dollars, which has already met collectors' preliminary estimation of Gao Fan's worth, As a result, the number of bidders holding placards in the venue began to decrease.

A limited number of powerful collectors began to compete with each other. They planned to win this work at around 20 million. Although it was an auction, everyone had a tacit understanding in their hearts. After all, they were all players and predators in the world art circle. , they go after the artist without making the artist overpriced.

In the end, the bidder for No. 33 set the auction price at $21.6 million.

This art consultant from South Korea is the spokesperson of a certain consortium, and this consortium is famous for its electronics industry. Its annual turnover accounts for 20% of the entire country's GDP, which can be said to be truly wealthy.

$21.6 million, an acceptable number.

This is true for auction houses, collectors, and the market.

Very high, in line with Gao Fan's social status, but not too outrageous.

Just when Chen Liangling was looking around the venue, ready to drop the hammer to make a final decision.

Suddenly, a price flashed on the big screen, attracting everyone's attention.

Soon a staff member ran up and whispered something in Chen Liangling's ear.

Chen Liangling's exquisitely made-up face showed an expression of surprise, and then adjusted her mood. She also looked back at the numbers on the big screen.

Because the four cities around the world are bidding, that is to say, collectors all over the world are bidding on Gao Fan's works. The voices in other auction houses will not be synchronized, but the prices they bid will represent that The screen of the city appears on the screen, and at this moment the screen that says 'New York' shows a number '25 million dollars'.

oh~

This number was like a small bomb, which fell in the local venue of Xiangjiang, causing a small exclamation.

This extremely oppressive bidding method is clearly intended to drive away other bidders, which is not common in an art auction.

The art consultant of the Korean chaebol frowned, and started to take out his phone to connect to the outside of the venue. It should be to ask whether to continue to follow the filming, but it is unnecessary. From this moment on, several large screens representing other cities in the venue , began to burst out one after another oppressive numbers like Spring Festival fireworks.

"$28 million from an anonymous bidder in the Paris area!"

Chen Liangling's voice did not fall.

Another even bigger number appeared on the screen of the representative of the London venue.

"$30 million! Anonymous bidder from London for $30 million!"

Immediately after this bidding number, it began to unscrupulously crush the minds of collectors in the local auction venue in Xiangjiang like a snowball rolling down from the top of the mountain.

30 million US dollars is not the limit, it was broken in a blink of an eye, and then 35 million, 40 million, these bidders who came out of nowhere, all of them are oppressive, they disdain the small bids of 100,000 or 100,000 Units, each of which releases their emotions of winning to the maximum, superimposing tens of millions of money like numbers, intimidating other bidders like a terrorist.

The local collectors and art consultants in Xiangjiang seem to have become a group of spectators.

but.

"Fifty million dollars."

A gentleman sitting in the corner of the venue raised a placard to bid to save a city for Xiangjiang.

Everyone looked in that direction, but no one recognized him.

Except Laurence, that was M. Luc Villiers.

Luc Villiers nodded to Laurence.

Lawrence hid his excitement and smiled back. At this moment, Lawrence couldn't help but think of Gao Fan's words.

""Redemption" ah, it can shoot hundreds of millions."

Now, Lawrence realizes that the normal market price of "Indifference" is less than 50 million U.S. dollars. The bidders are betting against Gao Fan in order to get Gao Fan to take out "Redemption", so they push "Indifference" to such a price.

So, who are they?

What is the magic of "Redemption"?

...

Twenty minutes later, Chen Liangling knocked down the auction hammer, and the final transaction of "Indifference" was 83 million US dollars, which was purchased by Mr. Luc Villiers of Xiangjiang Auction House.

Chapter Four~