Treasure Hunt Tycoon

There are oil paintings in the west and ink paintings in the east.

Because of the economy of the time and the status of the country, in terms of cultural invasion, Western painting has won China, taking the lead in completing the leap from the west to the east.

From the missionary's import to the return of students studying abroad, the history spanned hundreds of years. This period was the period when the oil paintings at the southern port of the Qing Dynasty flourished. Therefore, in the early Qing Dynasty, oil painters appeared in the south.

Among them, in the earliest days, the most traceable master of oil painting was Shi Beilin.

There is not much information about this person on the Internet, so Li Du doesn't know much about him, but in the knowledge of Logan Stanley, the painter still has a lot of information.

"Shi Beilin can almost be said to be the opener of the Chinese evening oil painting market. It was he who allowed this art to enter the folk and linked it to money success. According to my research yesterday, Shi Beilin made a painting at that time, which cost ten dollars. . "

Li Du nodded. Ten dollars in the late Qing era. If calculated based on price inflation, now it can be converted into one hundred thousand dollars.

"Shi Beilin's artistic accomplishments are very high, and his portrait drawing ability is extremely outstanding. His business is booming. Even the mayor of Sailun City took his wife to visit China's commercial port and asked him to make a portrait."

It is understandable that, as far as the art market is concerned, reputation means business, and business will promote the development of art. There will be more enthusiasts and more people coming in.

"But what's more powerful about him is the shaping of the style of painting. He has formed his own portrait style very early. You see, the contrast between the light and dark of these portraits is not strong, but he pays attention to the performance of the facial anatomy."

"His painting has a characteristic, like to use brown-gray or blue-gray to represent the background. Look at this picture, do you notice? The background behind the portrait backlight has a lighter halo than the dark side of the face ..."

Logan Stanley also helped them to identify the authenticity of these portraits when he introduced Speying.

Listening to his introduction, Hans asked: "These paintings are all real, all from the hands of this prolific master Spieling, right?"

Logan-Stanley laughed and said, "I'm going to introduce this next. It's hard to tell whether it's true or false. It's easy to identify the age of them, but it's harder to identify whether they all came from Shi Beilin."

"I said just now that what Shi Beilin did very well was that he shaped the style of oil painting around the business port in southern China at that time. From the 1870s, the oil painters there learned his style in the next half century."

"They learn too much and imitate too much, so now they are mostly attributed to Shi Beilin's style or style, so it's not easy to identify them."

Li Dudao: "I have signatures and dates on the back of these paintings. If you look at this one, the signature is directly on the front. In April 1777, Shi Beilin painted Captain Realford-Morris on the Pearl River Estuary Steamship."

Logan-Stanley shook his head and said, "This cannot be used as a basis for investigation. Of course it is indeed useful. It can also play a role by analyzing the style and handwriting of the portrait."

"If it is not certain that it is a painting by Shi Beilin, will it reduce its value?" Hans asked with concern.

Logan nodded: "Yes, Stanley's paintings are more valuable. At that time, the painters praised him. For example, John Miles said," Shi Beilin is an excellent Chinese painter, maybe this huge empire. The only one in a field. "

He went on to introduce it. It was more difficult to identify Shi Beilin's paintings, and it was necessary to negotiate with many experts who had studied oil paintings of that era.

In particular, Shi Beilin's painting style is changeable, and is roughly divided into two stages around the 1890s.

"His early portraits were related to his glass portraits. The painting was more formal with pens. The brush strokes were smooth. The structure of the face was not obvious. The clothes and backgrounds were basically used to change the shades of colors. Decoration The flavor is very strong, the color lacks a unified and harmonious environment tone, and the picture is more rigid ... "

"From about 1786, due to the improvement of painting and skill on the canvas, subtle color changes began to appear in the clothing, the color tone of the entire screen also became soft and unified, and the facial texture and light and dark contrast of the characters also appeared. The background has also changed in depth, the volume and space of the characters have been strengthened, the air of temperament has been demonstrated, and the style of portraits has taken on a neoclassical style ... "

"In his later years, his works have got rid of the traces of Orientals who used pure line modeling to shape portraits of people, and reached a situation that is comparable to and indistinguishable from Western painters ..."

From a professional perspective, Logan introduced a lot of things. Li Du listened very hard. He had not received systematic training in oil painting, and he had no idea about these.

Logan couldn't give an accurate appraisal ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ But from his professional perspective, the reliability of these portraits is still very strong, and it really belongs to Shi Beilin.

Shi Beilin's portraits were popular in China before, and China has a large and profound antique culture, so the value is not very high. Logan said that at auction, Shi Beilin's paintings were at most one million dollars.

This price made Li Du very satisfied. Even if he could only sell for one million dollars, he made a lot.

He was a big leak this time, and Liu Goat was very savvy, but he did n’t know about the Internet and did n’t know how to use the Internet to check the identity of these oil paintings.

Or he checked it on the Internet, but found nothing.

Coupled with the vision to determine the value, Liu Goat usually swayed between the markets, cheating ten yuan and one hundred yuan at a time. It is impossible to imagine that a Chinese oil painting can sell for several million yuan.

After all, in popular perception, valuable oil paintings are done by Western painters.

Moreover, Liu Goat only knows that these paintings are old, and he does not know that they have existed for more than two hundred years. In his estimation, these paintings were buried in the ground at a special time decades ago.

Li Du paid the appraisal fee, Logan signed his name on the oil painting appraisal certificate, and the rest was how to deal with it.

Logan made it clear that these oil paintings are biased towards the niche. If they want to sell at high prices, they can only be sold to those who like to collect Chinese oil paintings of the 18th and 9th centuries.

Li Du helplessly asked Hans: "Do you know these people?"

Hans shook his head.

Li Dudao: "Then you contact the auction house to see if the auction house is interested in them or hang them on a face-book or other place to advertise."

Hans thought about it and said, "Actually, there are other ways. I have a good way to deal with it." 21089