Golden Fishery

Chapter 19: .Poseidon’s Food (the first of the third shifts)

The fun of the banquet is to participate. Qin Shiou doesn’t eat much, but he is very happy.

Almost a week after the PARTY ended, Qin Shiou received a call from Xiao Blake. The Ricci auction house has already put the publicity work in place. April 18 is their highlight of the year, the spring auction.

Among the auction houses, spring auctions and autumn auctions are the most important. The spring auctions prepared by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Hong Kong Hengde and other auction houses are also held in these few days. It can be said that at this time of year, A feast for collectors.

There is always a bidding king in every auction. This time the bidding king of Ricci’s auction house is Qin Shiou’s Perseus and Medusa bronze statues.

The appearance of this statue triggered an earthquake in the European collection circle. There were not many works by Cellini, the father of Seiko, but even fewer natural and man-made disasters have survived for nearly 500 years, especially his large-scale works. Bronze carving.

For the carving industry, the significance of this work by Cellini is not worse than that of the Mona Lisa in the painting world, especially at the end of the nineteenth century, when this statue was lost. Now that he has been found back again, it is naturally even more legendary.

The Black family naturally wanted to invite Qin Shiou to participate in the auction. The venue was a five-star hotel in Ottawa. The local government used special police to assist the auction house in security work. Everything seemed solemn and formal.

Before the start of the auction, all the auction items were displayed in the exhibition hall, and Qin Shiou watched it together with Xiao Blake.

A total of forty-eight works of art participated in this auction, including calligraphy and painting, woodcarving, bronze carving, pottery, porcelain, furniture, gold and silverware and miscellaneous antiques, which are very complete.

At the scene, the most concerned is naturally the bronze statue of “Polsius and Medusa”. A group of old guys with thick glasses surrounds them. Everyone has a magnifying glass in his hand and stares desperately at it. Statue, can’t wait to put this thing in your eyes.

When Qin Shiou looked around, he saw another Picasso portrait called “A Woman Head “It’s much ugly.

This gave him some confidence. He felt that as long as this “Female Head” was there, the price of “The Woman Holding the Golden Drum” would not be low.

There is a sentence to say, not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods, comparing his painting is still good.

If Qin Shiou’s paintings were not appreciated by Picasso, then another painting he saw afterwards made him feel crazy—the painting was called “Calcium Hydride”, which was a neat arrangement of colored circular patterns of various colors. On the canvas.

“This thing, isn’t it also a work of art to be auctioned?” Qin Shiou asked little Blake suspiciously.

Little Black shrugged handsomely and said: “You guessed it, yes, it is.”

Qin Shiou didn’t want to show his ignorance in public, but he still couldn’t help rolling his eyes: “If it’s not God who is crazy, then the collectors are crazy!”

Little Blake explained with a smile: “If you can’t appreciate it, it’s normal, but I have to introduce to you. The author of this painting is Damien Hirst, the most expensive contemporary artist in the UK. .”

Qin Shiou doesn’t want to say much, if contemporary art is to draw circles on canvas, then he should go to appreciate Chinese landscape paintings, that is the real art!

After a few glances, he was about to leave, but when he walked past a statue, he suddenly felt a throbbing deep in his heart.

This is a feeling that I have never felt before. To describe it, it is the excitement of the soul trembling. Under the control of this feeling, Qin Shiou stopped and looked at the statue beside him.

The image of this statue is an apple, about the size of an adult’s fist. The specific texture is not clear. It resembles a wax block, but it is more turbid, grayish-yellow, and not very beautiful.

Little Black is a shrewd businessman. When Qin Shiou stopped to look at the apple statue, he asked: “Why, are you interested? This is a good gadget. According to the analysis of carbon fourteen, it was born in the 18th century. A real antique.”

For some reason, this thing had a strong attraction to Qin Shiou, in other words, this thing attracted Qin Shiou’s heart of the sea god.

However, Qin Shiou didn’t want to reveal his true thoughts, so he said disdainfully: “This is also an antique? Oh, God, I was stimulated too much today-no, no, it should be said that I learned too much today.”

Little Blake smiled happily: “Come on, Qin, your eyes have already told me what you really think, you want to get it, don’t you? In fact, you have a very good vision, don’t look at the appearance of this little thing. Well, its value lies in its identity. Do you know what texture it is? Ambergris!”

Ambergris is still a mystery so far. Modern western scientists analyzed it and said that it was only the residue of whale intestinal obstruction. In the middle and ancient times of the East and the West, this spice was regarded as a treasure.

Qin Shiou glanced at the apple statue a few more times, and then entered the venue to prepare for the auction. After he sat down, Little Blake introduced him to a middle-aged man with gold-rimmed glasses. The latter introduced himself as Allen- Brandon is a financier.

At ten o’clock in the morning, the auction started on time, and the first auction item turned out to be the modern art “Calcium Hydride” that Qin Shiou looked down on.

What shocked Qin Shiou was that this unreasonable portrait in his eyes was actually sold for a high price of 2.4 million Canadian dollars!

“Is Lao Tzu’s art appreciation level so poor?” Qin Daguan became a little frustrated.

In contrast, Alan Brandon next to him was more extreme. He gritted his teeth and said: “Shit! Are these guys crazy? This is a piece of rag! A piece of rag that should go to hell. They are willing to spend 2.4 million to buy it! Everything is shit!”

The official Qin looked at Alan Brandon in astonishment. Is this uncle hating the rich?

Immediately, it didn’t take long for Qin Shiou’s things to come into play, and the paintings of Arthur Pinarrang appeared first.

As a result, the embarrassing scene of Qin Shiou appeared. So many portraits were put together, and no one paid attention. You must know that when the auction of “Calcium Hydride” started, at least five or six collectors were competing for bids.

The reserve price of these portraits was 1 million Canadian dollars. The auctioneer screamed several times. In the end, two young American painters worked together to win the paintings at the starting price.

Then another blow appeared. Two of Picasso’s paintings were auctioned off one after another. The first one was “A Woman’s Head” which Qin Shiou looked down upon.

The starting price of this painting was 6 million Canadian dollars. As soon as the price was sold, a Russian collector raised the price by 500,000. Since then, there have been sporadic biddings, and the final sale price of this painting reached 860. The high price of ten thousand Canadian dollars.

The next appearance was “The Woman With The Golden Drum”, but the starting price of this painting turned out to be only 1.8 million Canadian dollars, which is almost a world in comparison to “Woman Head”.

Qin Shiou’s complexion turned ugly. Little Blake hurriedly explained and said in a low voice: “Don’t get excited, man, “Female Head” is a mature work of Mr. Picasso, and this painting of you is just his hand-painted during the transition period. You. You must know that Picasso is a prolific artist. He has tens of thousands of surviving works. To be honest, the price of your painting is not low.”

But Xiao Blake comforted Qin Shiou again: “I received a call just now. I have asked a friend to sell your “Sunflower” which is imitation of Pinarang, and sold it to the New York Museum. The price is fifty-four. Ten thousand Canadian dollars.”

The news made Qin Shiou smile suddenly. He had no hope of the fake painting, but he was able to sell more than 500,000 Canadian dollars. This is also a windfall.

During the exchange between Qin Shiou and Xiao Blake, the auction for “The Woman Holding the Golden Drum” also started.

After all, Uncle Picasso has a lot of face. Although the value of this painting is not optimistic, several Russian and Middle Eastern collectors still competed. In the end, a wealthy businessman in the United Arab Emirates took it for 2.5 million Canadian dollars. This picture is down.

About ten works of art were auctioned, and the auction began to close. After that, when Qin Shiou paid attention to the Ambergris Apple, the auction began.

Coincidentally, the name of this ambergris apple turned out to be’Poseidon’s Gourmet’. The auctioneer introduced: “This is a gift from the sea. We have consulted Professor Black Hasson, a marine expert at the University of Toronto. According to his research, This artwork is a sacrifice to the sea **** by fishermen in the 18th century… Its starting price is -1.6 million!”

%%%% Thank you, Brother Xinghe, for being the first deacon of this book. Today’s three shifts are the first to start. I hope you can give me a recommendation and collect this book by the way. Thank you.

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