Soul Painter

If you want to count the highest price auctions in the history of the world's oil painting auctions, then Leonardo will definitely be able to win the top spot. In 2019, one of his works "The Savior" was sold at Christie's for a fantastic price of US$450 million.

Counting the first few auctions in the world oil painting industry over the years, you will see Van Gogh, Monet, Edward Munch, Klimt, William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Picasso , Modigliani, Cezanne, Gauguin and other names, and different from people’s impressions, in fact, modern artists, that is, 20th century artists, have a higher average value.

But when the works of the above-mentioned artists were sold at sky-high prices, without exception, they had all passed away.

A painting by a contemporary artist, sold at a sky-high price of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars, may be a very interesting topic for the press, but it is not good news for collectors.

In 1987, when the Japanese bought Van Gogh's Sunflower at a high price of about 40 million U.S. dollars, waving a lot of banknotes, a dozen painters of Van Gogh's contemporaries soared in value, such as Renoir, Cézanne, Degas, Picasso, Kandinsky, Léger, etc., such as Renoir's "Pancake Mill Ball" sold for a record-breaking price of $78.1 million after three years.

Therefore, you can imagine buyers in the art market, when they heard that Gao Fan’s two consecutive works were sold for nearly 100 million US dollars, they would be dissatisfied. This means the global art market, especially oil paintings. The market, to be more specific, the paintings of the Demon School will become more expensive.

Even Anna Armas never had a work on the market, and she quickly gained a value of more than 30 million U.S. dollars per work.

Who is it that secretly promotes Gao Fan's worth?

This is irrational.

It's crazy too.

The damage will be the buyer's market for global art.

But the dissatisfaction of the buyer group cannot stop the irrationality and madness in their eyes.

April 16.

"Eros", one of the mask paintings, had an auction price of over 100 million for the first time, with a transaction price of US$107 million.

As for the total income of the "Mask" group paintings in the Sommer's spring auction, it has reached 279 million.

This can't help but make Christie's four cities dream-linked big shot show, the income of the Xiangjiang area is overwhelming the other three cities.

Once the news was released, it also detonated the public opinion of the whole society.

The founder of the Demon School, 24-year-old Gao Fan, broke into the top ten of the Forbes artist income list with a gesture of falling from the sky.

Countless news media once again focused their attention on Gao Fan.

News such as "A single work of a 24-year-old painter is close to 100 million US dollars" is not surprising. Only the news "Gao Fan, a young painter with a net worth of over 100 million yuan, has decided to donate 50% of his income to charity". Only then will it trigger a wider range of public opinions.

"You sent it?" Gao Fan asked Lawrence after seeing the news.

"Of course not." Lawrence said, "but the charity fund that we and Tianmei jointly established can be found by anyone who wants to track it down. Maybe some people want to check your tax issues, but when they found this, it was sent out in the news. "

Ok. Gao Fan nodded, and that is probably the case.

"Don't worry about it, you are different now," Lawrence said again, "it was different in Boston."

It’s not the same. It means that Gao Fan has already stood on two levels with other contemporary oil painting artists. What Gao Fan does and what he doesn’t do will no longer be compared to other painters. He can only continue to surpass himself and complete. A more magnificent legend.

"It's already 279 million." Lawrence added, "If you get 121 million in "Despair" tomorrow, you must fulfill your promise."

"Will you bet and lose." Gao Fan said, "but do you know who the buyer is?" Gu

"There are two anonymous, the other is Mr. Luc Villiers." Lawrence said.

This name awakened some of Gao Fan's memories.

It seems that Ziegfei has said it.

"Oh, it's the spokesperson of the Nine Angels." Gao Fan whispered, and he remembered.

"What did you say?" Lawrence didn't hear it clearly.

"It's nothing, so, if someone can successfully shoot "Redemption", please send me an invitation. I want to meet him." Gao Fan said, "That must be interesting."

"What are you going to talk to him about?" Lawrence asked curiously.

"Talk about...world peace." Gao Fan said.

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April 17.

One of the mask paintings "Despair" that was originally scheduled to appear on the 18th finale, will be auctioned on the 17th.

Because it involves the gambling agreement between Gao Fan and Christie's, Shi Junan put the 18th idle as a time window for the gambling agreement to be actually implemented.

According to previous experience, "Despair" as a self-portrait in the mask group painting has special significance, and therefore it must be worth more. And the auction price of "Eros" has exceeded 100 million, so the transaction price of "Despair" will definitely be 100 million. Above, once it exceeds 121 million, the auction of the final piece "Redemption" in the mask group painting will start again. Therefore, this one is highly anticipated.

The auction was still presided over by Chen Liangling. Within three minutes after she announced that the starting price of the mask group painting "Despair" was 26 million US dollars, the auction price was paid by a mysterious guest, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com. Com directly raised to 50 million, followed by telephone offers one by one, the guests from the other three cities on the big screen seemed to be bored with the tedious auction process, and a series of astronomical numbers flashed alternately—most people only saw it on the hard disk memory capacity. Such a long string.

Ten minutes later, the auction price of "Despair" was fixed at $121 million.

The bidder came from an anonymous buyer in London.

Mr. Luc Villiers from Xiangjiang District did not raise a placard during the whole process, but kept watching the quotation. After Chen Liangling quoted a price of US$121 million, he seemed to smile.

Finally, Chen Liangling knocked down the auction hammer.

"Despair", sold for 121 million US dollars.

This price is very interesting, just enough for the four works of Gao Fan to make up the transaction price of 400 million U.S. dollars.

Although there was only a short ten-minute bidding, Chen Liangling’s breathing was already rushing. The price of millions or tens of millions of bites increased each bite. Although the number of bites was small, the weight of each bite was so amazing that Chen Liangling even felt a little thrilling. When she finally dropped the hammer, she felt relieved but passionate.

Chen Liangling knew the gambling agreement very well, and even said that it was she proposed to Shi Junan, and the final sale price of "Despair" also implies that the reason why the first four mask paintings were auctioned at an unusually high price is because The eyes of some mysterious buyers were focused on this last mask group painting.

Here, it's just an appetizer.

Snapped!

A hammer fell.

Chen Liangling had a lock of hair hanging down on her temples and sweat on her forehead. This ruined her perfect makeup, but it was just right. Although the auction site was calm, but hidden in the environment of shocking waves, she believed that the final auction tomorrow would be A pinnacle in her career.