Soul Painter

The filming of Yang Ma's documentary took up more than half a month of Gao Fan's time intermittently.

When the time came in early April, the documentary filming was basically completed.

This time, the director of the documentary of "Great Power" is Director Chen, and the director of the diversity is Deng Jie. This post-80s female director, followed Gao Fan in his studio for more than half a month, and recorded the work of Gao Fan in detail. During the whole process, during this half month, Gao Fan did not create oil paintings. Instead, he compiled a map of 448 people in the Red Mansions that he copied from the Fragment of the Red Mansions.

This is an extremely long scroll with a length of 10 meters. It is also an interesting attempt to imitate Chinese fine brush paintings using Western sketching methods. Since the paintings are all drawn with carbon powder and carbon pens, they have already faced it after painting. The lack of color, color fading, and smearing, the time that Gao Fan spent organizing and preserving this long scroll has exceeded his creative time.

Therefore, Deng Jie did not capture the scene of Gao Fan's creation of oil paintings. In her lens, Gao Fan seemed to be an Oriental painter who inherited the fine brush skills and was creating ink paintings, except that he used a pencil.

After this documentary is broadcast, the audience's reaction must be very interesting.

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At the end of March.

Lawrence has already begun preparations for the Christie's auction to be held in Hong Kong in mid-April.

Among Gao Fan's "Mask" group paintings, "Falsehood" and "Foolish Stupidity" were acquired in the last Xiangjiang auction.

"Blind" and "Crazy" are now in the Museum of New York.

"Greedy" stayed at the Gardner Museum.

"Redemption" Gao Fan wants to keep it for himself. This painting painted with magical demon paint has the miraculous effect of rebuilding human sanity and will not appear on the auction list.

Therefore, what will be sold at Christie's Spring Festival auction this time will be "Indifference", "Rage", "Eros" and "Despair" among the remaining ten mask group paintings.

Among them, the auction of "Despair" will be the highlight. Lawrence has already negotiated with Christie's and will serve as the final part of the auction. It will be the finale with a Roy Richtenstein and Picasso collected by Christie.

This auction also has several other special exhibitions, including "Oriental Porcelain" and "Oriental Painting" in Hong Kong, and "African Art" and "Baroque Sculpture" in Paris, London and New York. It even includes some "human science and technology exploration" special sessions, in which the auction item includes a small bag of lunar soil gifted by NASA to a head of state.

Although Christie's has always been known for auctioning art treasures, it is also constantly expanding its areas of involvement. After all, making money is its boundary.

As a result of previous discussions between Lawrence and Gao Fan, it was originally at this year’s Christie’s that two or three works were launched. This is a relatively normal number. The flow of too many works to the market will reduce the scarcity of the artist’s works, which will lead to collectors. The frustration of our expectations will directly reduce the artist's worth.

How many works an oil painter releases to the market each year is a kind of tacit understanding between the painter and the market. Waiting for the painter to die, this tacit understanding will reach an unshakable peak state. After all, the artist himself has no ability to disrupt the market. Up.

But Lawrence still underestimated the market's desire for Gao Fan.

Gao Fan is the most famous oil painter in this century.

Compared with his rapidly rising fame, the number of paintings he has circulated on the market is too few.

That is, a pair of "Maggot Rushing" acquired by PACE-this painting PACE has no plans to sell, because it is clear that Gao Fan's value is rising rapidly, and it is a better choice to wait and see the market.

There are also the few mask paintings that were acquired. At this point in time, they will not be brought to the market at all.

In addition, there are a few sketches that Gao Fan handily gifted in Boston-each of those sketches was marked at a sky-high price of 300,000 U.S. dollars, but even so, the acquirers were nothing. It seems that every Boston family that owns sketches, They all treat it as a family heirloom.

However, in China, some people have found Gao Fan’s work in the immature stage of his skills. Those are some sketches. The word "fan" in the corner proves that this should be Gao Fan’s work, but it has not been Gao Fan himself and his agent. People's certification can only be circulated in a small area, but a painting has also been sold for a high price of about 100,000 yuan.

Compared with the 500 yuan spent to buy it in the ancient city of Guyao, it has doubled 20 times. This can not help making some young men and women ecstatic. This is like buying a lottery ticket for Zhang Bizhong.

But most of these couples who easily sell their sketches will regret it, because Gao Fan's prophecy that a painting can be exchanged for a house has not yet been realized.

In short, compared to Gao Fan's world-renowned reputation, there are actually zero Gao Fan's works circulating in the market.

So Christie’s negotiated with Lawrence, hoping that Gao Fan could release more mask paintings.

This is the game. Once the market is over-satisfied, it will damage Gao Fan's worth. The market must be kept hungry. So Lawrence chose the quantity of four after weighing it.

"In fact, what they want most is "Salvation." Lawrence said to Gao Fan.

Regarding the sixteenth painting in the mask group paintings ~www.readwn.com~, the expectations on the market are very strange. Countless people are listening to Lawrence's tone, and some people are even willing to trade at a sky-high price of 100 million US dollars in private. Of course, Lawrence He wouldn't agree. What he and Gao Fan care about is not money, but market approval.

"Salvation is not for sale." Gao Fan refused again.

"Christie's has an interesting proposal. Would you like to listen to it?" Lawrence asked.

"How interesting is it?" Gao Fan was interested, no one could take this "Redemption" from him, so what trick did Christie's think of.

"They will make an announcement." Lawrence said, "If the auction value of the previous four mask paintings exceeds a certain number, such as 200 million US dollars, then you will take out the fifth mask painting for auction, and this painting will be auctioned. It’s "Salvation."

"I'm playing right gambling, or betting against the entire market?" Gao Fan became more interested, and he calculated, "If "The Bostonian" is my current value, it would be nearly 40 million U.S. dollars, but the number of masks More, it does not have the legendary character of a city, so the value will be lower, right? Even if it is 20 million, plus the uncertainty in the auction, a mask painting can theoretically sell three Ten million dollars?"

"Overestimate it, it will be 30 million." Lawrence said, "taking into account the scarcity in circulation, this is in line with the market's expectations of you."

"Then the figure of 200 million U.S. dollars is very sincere. However, in order to prevent accidents, let's add a little more, 400 million." Gao Fan said, "Four small goals for U.S. dollars!"

"You mean...yes? But raise the target?" Lawrence said.

"Yes, what a fun thing, why don't you agree." Gao Fan smiled happily. This bet will add a bit of fun to this boring auction.