Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After the banquet ended and returned to the hotel, Liang En and Fan Meng immediately gathered together to admire the booklet they bought at the auction.

"These paintings are indeed very beautiful." After briefly reading the 19 sketches in this booklet, Fan Meng scratched his head and said. "Although I don't see the meaning of these words, I just think these paintings give people a very good feeling."

"If this is the case, then the painter of this painting is really good." Liang En nodded slightly. "Really good artworks should do this and allow outsiders to enjoy a kind of beauty from them."

After the two people checked the manual again but still found nothing, Fan Meng, who found that he could not help, returned to his room, and Liang En immediately used a key on the manual after he left. [Identification (N)].

The reason for using cards is also very simple. During the inspection process, Liang En discovered that the book should have been bound together after the sketches were drawn, and he knew that he was not good enough to complete the subsequent appraisal. .

After all, there are specialties in the art industry, so when facing this kind of artwork, it is a wise choice to admit that you are powerless and need the help of golden fingers. At least it can save a lot of time and energy.

The fact was just as Liang En thought. After he used the card on the manual, a line of text immediately appeared in front of Liang En, revealing the identity of the manual.

[Famous oil painting masters often also have strong sketching skills. At the same time, they also use sketching to practice their painting abilities, and this manual was left by two oil painting masters. 】

[Nikolai Feshin is the owner of this manual, and most of the sketches in the manual were left by him. However, in addition to the 17 sketches he drew himself, there are two sketches of his teacher Ilya Yefimovich Repin. 】

"Rebin!" Liang En's eyes widened. Although he didn't know exactly who this Nikolai Feshin was, he still knew the famous Russian oil painting master Repin.

Because he remembered that there was an article in his previous Chinese textbook called "Trackers on the Volga River", and the picture accompanying that article was Repin's oil painting of the same name.

Just when the specific identity of the sketchbook was determined, two cards appeared in Liang En's mind. Judging from the color, they should be an R card and an N card.

"It seems that this booklet is really worth buying." Liang En muttered quietly. For him, being able to get an N card and an R card at a price of less than 10,000 US dollars is naturally a very good thing. transaction.

After checking it, he found that the N card among them was an ordinary [Appraisal (N)], with nothing special about it. The R card is a brand new enhanced card.

[Sketch Painter (R): Sketching is the foundation and skeleton of painting; it is also the art that is the most restrained and requires the assistance of reason. Everyone who is new to painting must first learn sketching to lay a solid foundation.

For those true masters of art, even a simple sketch can provide those who view the work with a sense of beauty.

Enhancement card (one-time use). By consuming this card, you can master sketching skills equivalent to the level of Nikolai Fishin. Note that what you master is only the skills related to sketching, and does not involve other painting abilities. 】

"Ah, this new skill is quite valuable." After using this card and mastering the sketching skill, Liang En thought as he gently leaned on the chair.

After all, archaeological work also requires the drawing of various sketches. Although these sketches hardly contain any artistic elements, they can also be regarded as a type of sketch.

Especially in the past when there were no video and photographic equipment, the excavators of ancient ruins had only sketches to record the archaeological sites besides words.

However, with the development of science and technology, there are fewer and fewer historians and archaeologists who master this skill. But if you can master this skill, it may be useful in some special situations.

"But who is this Nikolai Feshin?" After the excitement of mastering a new skill passed, Liang En began to research the identity of the person behind this card.

After all, he is not an art student, and knowing Repin is the limit. As for Repin's student, he has never heard of it before, so naturally he doesn't know the level of this painter.

Fortunately, we are now in the Internet age, so Liang En quickly found a series of information about the painter named Nikolai Feschen after connecting his mobile phone to the Internet.

Nikolai Fischen (1879-1955) was a Russian-American painter who was born in Kazan, Russia, into a family of woodcarvers and craftsmen. Repin's students have unique works, and their representative works include "Autumn", "Portrait of Kanuliya", "Portrait of Father", etc.

His paintings have bright colors, bright contrasts between light and dark, and strong expressive power. His sketches are influenced by traditional oriental paintings. The sketch heads are drawn with charcoal on solid and smooth paper, which is unique and profound.

His artistic level was also affirmed by his teacher. In 1926, when the great Russian painter Ilya Yefimovich Repin answered the question of who is the most talented painter in the world, he said cheerfully: "Feshin !”

However, unlike his teacher, very few of Feishen's works have survived to this day. The main ones left behind are some later works scattered in the hands of various private collectors, resulting in his not being well-known.

This situation occurred because the painter lived a life of displacement, so many of his works were destroyed by war and immigration, or were lost in international art exhibitions.

Even so, the price of Feshin's works is not low, especially due to the hype of the Russian oligarchs, the price has been rising year by year. For example, at an auction a few years ago, one of his oil paintings sold for a high price of 2.3 million pounds.

However, compared with oil paintings, sketches are definitely not as expensive, but Feshen is also good at sketching in addition to oil paintings, especially character sketches.

Therefore, the price of the sketching exercise book in Liang En's hands will not be too low. At least based on the auction prices of similar works, if such an exercise book can be auctioned, it may be sold for 700,000 to 800,000 pounds.

But Liang En will definitely not sell these things, at least not in a short time. Because he is not short of money for the time being, and through the information he just checked on the Internet, he learned that this type of art has been increasing in price for decades, and it is considered a very good investment product.

The next day, Liang En took Fan Meng to the location of the gallery that he had inquired about at the banquet yesterday, to see if there was any chance of finding something similar there.

As a result, after arriving at the location, we discovered that the place where the gallery used to be was now a huge foundation pit. Apparently, the new owner of the land planned to build a new building on the site of the gallery.

In this case, don't expect to find anything, so Liang En and the others could only give up their next plan and returned to the hotel in despair.

Maybe it was a good time, but not long after Liang En and the others returned to the hotel, he received a call from Mr. Scord, saying that he hoped to chat with him again before setting off.