Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 309 Suspected Genuine Works
After spending so much effort, it was finally possible to enter the "basement" without resorting to the "broken" method. The three people present were all deeply moved.

Not easy.

In particular, Liang Teng and Wu Xia have already purchased everything from the "Houhai Siheyuan" to the open space behind the courtyard, and then to the land around "Wangdi Peak".The "basement" of the "siheyuan" and the "cave" in the mountain of the "Wangdi Peak", of course, all property rights belonged to Liang Teng and the others.

As for what kind of treasures are hidden in your own "basement", it is definitely a pity that you can't reach it in person and carefully screen it.

Liang Teng rejected this feeling of "regret" from the bottom of his heart.

Now he finally "got his wish" and entered this "basement", and Yan Qianyu had stayed there for a long time before, and there was no abnormality, which proved that the air circulation in this room was completely safe.

Another is that there are light bulbs in the "basement".Although it does not reach "bright as day", it can also be called "sufficient light".You can let go of your arms and check every item hidden in the "basement".

That's enough!

According to Wu Xia and Liang Teng's habit, the first thing to look at is of course those big things that are more eye-catching.For example, cabinets for storing "gadgets", furniture and so on.

Some time ago, Liang Teng and Wu Xia had been "fiddling" with furniture and logs, so they knew all kinds of "precious wood" well.You can tell the characteristics of a lot of precious wood with your eyes closed.From the texture of the wood to the smell of the wood.Including how to maintain and store, various trivial matters, and so on.

It was not easy for Liang Teng and Wu Xia to hire experts. The rich knowledge they possessed was enough to identify the materials of all the furniture in the "basement".

None of them are precious woods, just "high-end goods".

The slightly more expensive one is nothing more than "beech wood".This kind of cabinet shelf made of "beech wood" is sold for two to three thousand yuan a piece when it is brand new.

However, "Beech" itself is hard and heavier than other woods. If you use "Beech" to make cabinet shelves, you don't have to worry about being crushed by things placed on it.

It's a useful wood for putting things in, but it's not very valuable.

After looking at all the finished furniture in the "basement", I was sure that none of them were made of precious wood.In other words, they are not very valuable.

This was actually what Liang Teng expected.

He knows the passage leading to the "basement", the "secret door" is so narrow, the "spiral staircase" is so narrow, he knows that it is impossible for the large things (including furniture) in the "basement" Where did the money go.

There is no other reason.For example, like furniture, it must be disassembled and reassembled, otherwise it would be impossible to pass through the narrow "spiral staircase".But what is the value of furniture that can be dismantled?Generally speaking, it is nothing more than ordinary wood.

The fact is also as he guessed, that [-]% of all the wooden utensils in the "basement" are made of "beech wood".

The portion is worthless.

Liang Teng and Wu Xia came to study again. Are any of the items placed in the wooden furniture valuable?

Like a certain bookcase, there are several sacks of "ancient coins".Not only are several bags packed in sacks, but the "ancient coins" in the bags are also threaded consistently with flexible hemp ropes.Make it difficult to scatter into pieces.

Seeing the number of "ancient coins", Liang Teng felt a little overwhelmed.

There are too many "ancient coins" in existence.Only the rare and rare coins are more valuable.But Liang Teng is not an expert in this field, nor does he have the time and interest to verify its value one by one.

He decided to put the identification of "ancient coins" aside for now.Find an opportunity to move out several sacks of "ancient coins", and then contact a few experts in "ancient numismatics" to sift them one by one for him.If you can find something valuable among them, pick it out and sell it for money.If you can't find it, then Liang Teng is going to donate these sacks of "ancient coins" to the museum.

Not to mention that "museums" don't care about "ancient coins" that exist in large quantities.There are more than just large “museums” in this world.How many "small museums" built in small fourth- and fifth-tier cities welcome you to donate such large amounts of "ancient coins".

If it's worthless, you can donate it to them.

Having made up his mind, Liang Teng didn't care about those sacks of "ancient coins" for the time being.

I continued to check, but accidentally found a large number of oil paintings in the bookcase.Each painting is rolled up and housed in a wooden "scroll" tube that is waterproof and insect-resistant.

Seeing these "scrolls", the first thing Liang Teng and Wu Xia thought of was "calligraphy and painting".

As a result, one of them was taken out and it was indeed a painting.But it was not like the ink paintings they expected, but rather "oil paintings."

It feels a little out of place.According to general common sense, after the "Chinese paintings" created with ink and wash are mounted, they are rolled up and put into the "scroll" tube.

The "oil paintings" that are more popular in the West are keen to put them directly into the "frame" and hang them on the wall.

Now, there are actually a large number of oil paintings, all of which are randomly rolled up, stuffed into the "scroll" tube, and then stacked in the bookcase.

Liang Teng and Wu Xia have already disassembled several "scrolls" to look at, all of them are "oil paintings".It is estimated that the rest are also "oil paintings".

By "treating" these oil paintings so casually, aren't you afraid of removing the "paint" on the paintings?
Do you think that this batch of "oil paintings" is worthless at all, so you roll them up and collect them at will?Or did the original owner feel that installing them in the "frame" would take up too much space, and the walls of the entire "basement" were all hung up, and they couldn't fit them?
Liang Teng always felt that the original owner's level should be limited, and he didn't know whether these "oil paintings" were worth much, so he simply collected them casually like this.

Liang Teng has always been most interested in and learned from "picking up leaks", so he came to check those "oil paintings" one by one with great interest.

good!Just take out the "oil paintings" from the "scroll" tube one by one and examine them carefully, taking the trouble to do so.

Of course, it was not that Liang Teng had any ability to "foresee the unknown", so he determined that those "oil paintings" contained priceless works by famous artists, and insisted on screening them.Liang Teng simply believed that the number of scrolls was 28, and there were only 28 "oil paintings" in total.It doesn’t take much time to appreciate them all.

Open the oil paintings one by one, and put them away carefully one by one.

The whole process lasted about half an hour.Liang Teng looked at some oil paintings casually for a few times, then rolled them up and put them back in their original places.There were some oil paintings that he pondered over and over again for a long time before putting them away.Also set aside.According to Liang Teng, he planned to take the "oil painting" that he had put aside this time to find an authoritative expert for further appraisal.

Wu Xia and Yan Qianyu are relatively unfamiliar with the "oil painting" market.

I could only watch Liang Teng pick and choose.From the point of view of the two of them, they also found out a rule of "Liang Teng's selection of paintings".

It seems that when Liang Teng selects oil paintings, he selects them according to "figure painting" or "non-figure painting".In other words, the ones he picked out to be taken out for further appraisal were all "figure paintings" (especially "oil paintings of ladies", which were particularly favored by Liang Teng).

For some "oil paintings" that were not figures, Liang Teng put them back to their original places.

After such a selection, Liang Teng picked out about 9 "figure oil paintings".The remaining 19 paintings were not of figures, so they were all put back first.

Wu Xia guessed that he must have seen something?But she herself saw no way.So I was not ashamed to ask: "Liang Teng, you specifically picked out these 'oil paintings' of ladies, do you know they are valuable?"

"I have a guess, but I don't know if my judgment is accurate, so I have to take these 9 oil paintings and find an expert in this field to appraise them."

Sure enough, Liang Teng looked a little confident.It's just that the words that come out of his mouth are relatively modest.Don't just brag about yourself.

This stuff in front of the row is not blown out by oneself, but displayed with "strength".

Seeing the word "doubt" written all over Wu Xia's face, Liang Teng further explained to her: "I suspect this is an early work of a late famous painter. Wu Xia, can you think of any famous painter? ? Let me give you two hints: one is that all the works for which this painter is famous are 'oil paintings'. The second is that this painter's oil paintings are mainly paintings of domestic ladies. He created them in the form of 'oil paintings' Paintings of beautiful women can often fetch high prices abroad... It has been said so clearly, can you guess who the painter I mentioned is?"

Wu Xia is very familiar with the entire "art market" including calligraphy, painting, music, film and television.After hearing Liang Teng say such specific conditions, Wu Xia blurted out a name without thinking: "Cheng Yifei?!"

Liang Teng smiled and said, "Yes, that's him. He uses 'oil painting' as a carrier and is good at depicting images of ancient ladies. This combination of arts initially aroused the disgust of many people in the domestic painting circles. I think he is so His creations are a bit nondescript. But the market that "Cheng Yifei" is targeting is specifically targeting the overseas market. As a result, the highest price for his oil paintings was the astronomical price of 1.2 million at auction. Just such an oil painting, Let him make a lot of money."

Yan Qianyu didn't know oil painting at all, so she couldn't appreciate it.But she is particularly sensitive to money. When she heard that a famous painter could earn over [-] million yuan by painting such a painting, her eyes became a little straight.

Looking at the 9 "scrolls" selected by Liang Teng that were "suspected" of Cheng Yifei's paintings, his eyes could not help but shine.

There are a total of 9 oil paintings dedicated to depicting ancient ladies. Don't expect them all to be authentic "Cheng Yifei". "Paintings" worth hundreds of millions are in front of us.

Yan Qianyu looked at Liang Teng so casually, placing the "oil painting" works of the great artist on the ground at his feet, and couldn't help but think "Boss Liang is too rich. Have you put hundreds of millions of paintings in your heart?"

Wu Xia is not as shallow-sighted as Yan Qianyu, only thinking about how much the painting can sell for?
She murmured: "In fact, I rather appreciate the oil paintings of the famous painter 'Cheng Yifei'. I think, how can you do artistic creation without a little innovative spirit? A great painter like Cheng's dares to use Western mainstream It is indeed a bold innovation to paint the ancient ladies of our country with the original "oil painting" creation method. As a result, he also achieved great success. This is an achievement that some so-called painters who are willing to be mediocre and habitually conservative can hardly achieve. Therefore, purely from the perspective of art collection, Mr. Cheng Yifei's paintings are also very worthy of collection. I guess, Liang Teng, you also value the inheritance and innovation in Mr. Cheng's paintings, and he is a figure that will not be ignored in the painting world. Therefore, I am particularly interested in collecting his works?!"

Liang Teng laughed dryly, neither admitting nor denying it.Keep silent.

Wu Xia thought he was "accepting".

How did she know Liang Teng's true thoughts.Liang Teng was even worse than Yan Qianyu, he directly "drilled" into Qian's eyes.

He just thought that Cheng's oil paintings of ladies could be auctioned for "sky-high prices" and be exchanged for a lot of money.

What innovations in oil painting creation, and the big proposition of "carrying on the past and opening up the future" are all out of his consideration.He just knew that "Cheng's Oil Painting" was extremely valuable, so he wanted to identify whether it was his authentic work?
If it is identified as authentic, it will be collected for a period of time, maybe a few more years, before it can be put up for auction.

Why should we emphasize that if it is an authentic work, we should keep it for a few years and put it up for auction?

Because according to Liang Teng's memories before his rebirth, Cheng Yifei, a famous painter, would pass away suddenly in a few years.

This is the case in the calligraphy and painting market. Once a famous painter falls, his paintings will also rise with the tide, and the value will suddenly increase by N times.

Actually this is not surprising.When a painter passes away, it means that the existence of the painter's "authentic works" has been fixed, and there are only so many.There couldn't be more.

Rare things are more expensive.Originally, the artist's paintings sold quite expensively.It is impossible for new works to come out in the future, and the price of his old paintings that survived will not rise steadily, that would be called "a weird thing".

Liang Teng had a very deep understanding of the above laws and principles.

If the nine oil paintings of ladies he selected can all be proven to be authentic works by "Mr. Cheng", once Mr. Cheng "drives west" in a few years, the prices of these oil paintings will soar to a new height.

Of course, Liang Teng does not intend to keep collecting even under such a bullish market prospect, and has always held the authentic oil painting of "Cheng Yifei".After all, judging from the more than ten years after the death of the later "Mr. Cheng", it is difficult for his authentic oil paintings to continue to rise after reaching a historical high.Not only did it not rise, but it also seemed to show signs of slowly "falling back".

For this reason, Liang Teng does not intend to keep Cheng's authentic works forever.

After all, Cheng's paintings are not the mainstream of public aesthetics.In terms of long-term market prospects, there is no mainstream painter like Wu Guanzhong who is good at landscape painting, and there is a huge room for appreciation of his works.

(End of this chapter)