Treasure Hunt America

The curator of the grub is also a habit of propaganda. Seeing Masahiro Abe standing in front of such a colorful bicycle, he was very curious, so he couldn't help explaining it to him.

But after the talk, when I looked at this Abe Masahiro again, he was completely confused, and he knew that he was talking about chickens and ducks, so he simply stopped explaining the origins of these exhibits to him.

After all, for a rude person like Abe Masahiro, no matter how much you tell him, he will not understand, what is the use of your collection of such things, so it is nothing to talk about, it is better not to waste it. tongue.

Abe Masahiro was also embarrassed at this time. Of course, he could see the attitude of the curator of the grub, so he simply stopped standing in front of the exhibits and pretended to be a B. When he stood, he would be even more timid.

So he simply went inside again: "Director Jiao, you'd better give me an overview of this art museum!"

"Alright then, let me introduce you to our Fukuoka Art Museum..."

The curator of the grub led Masahiro Abe inside, but Jin Muchen, who followed behind them, felt very sorry. Masahiro Abe didn't want to hear the details of this art museum, but he still wanted to.

Masahiro Abe doesn't understand, but he can understand, Masahiro Abe doesn't understand, he understands!

It's a pity that on this occasion, he is not the protagonist and can only follow in the footsteps of those people.

"Our art museum was built in 1999. It mainly collects East Asian cultural art from the south of Mongolia, and it is mainly aimed at modern art. In fact, the most important thing is our Japanese modern art. Although the art museum also collects all antiques and cultural relics, the most important collection is the art paintings of the era, and the main target is the works of artists in the Kyushu area. Now our art museum covers an area of ​​​​About 9,100 square meters, it is divided into five exhibition areas, of which the special exhibition area is open to the outside world, namely the A-D area, the Japanese painters' meeting room at the back, the small exhibition room, and the corporate collection exhibition room. As well as the ancient art exhibition room, it is open to the public from time to time..."

The Fukuoka Art Museum was built from scratch, and it was built by the director of the grub, so when he introduced the art museum, he didn't even need to read the materials, and he could catch it.

Abe Masahiro listened carefully, but he wouldn't know that Jin Muchen, who was hiding behind him, listened more carefully.

Especially when he heard the corporate collection exhibition room and the ancient art exhibition room, Jin Muchen pricked up his ears. He followed in the footsteps of Masahiro Abe and Kazuya, and he had already visited a large area of ​​this museum.

However, in these areas, he didn't see anything he wanted to see at all. Before that, he was a little strange. Even if this art museum is a place that collects works of middle and second grades, it is difficult that they are really a little real. Do you not collect antiques that can be called cultural relics?

Now that he has heard such an introduction to this grub, he finally understands, this guy is emotional, right? All the good things are collected in the exhibition halls in the back.

And what the grub said, not only he heard the main point, that Abe Masahiro also heard the main point, the small exhibition hall in front, and the Japanese painter's meeting room, people didn't pay attention at all, Abe Masahiro Like him, the focus is on the corporate collection exhibition room and the ancient art exhibition room.

"Oh? Curator Grub, what do you mean by the corporate collection exhibition room of your museum and the ancient art exhibition room?"

Abe Masahiro asked this question, but when he got the idea, Jin Muchen couldn't help but want to kiss this guy with joy, because this was what he cared about the most.

"Well, this corporate collection exhibition room is actually some large-scale enterprises in Fukuoka or Kyushu area, some paintings that are usually collected..."

When the grubs said this, Abe Masahiro suddenly interrupted him and asked: "Oh! So, these works should be quite precious, right? Curator of the grubs, can you tell me what these works are? Are they all collected in what era?"

Hearing Masahiro Abe's question, the old grub's face was a little embarrassed: "Senior Abe, I don't think the introduction of this work is necessary. Because there are many companies that don't want to announce it at all, I only I can tell you that quite a few of these works are very precious works, and they are probably the first-class works that some companies in our Kyushu area bought from abroad in the 1970s and 1980s.”

Hearing these, Masahiro Abe's expression turned solemn. Although he didn't know what kind of treasure the old man was talking about, he could tell from his attitude that the old man was paying great attention to those works.

As for what they didn't know, Jin Muchen, who had been hiding behind them, couldn't hide his ecstasy after hearing such news. If he showed his real body at this time, it was estimated that people would just look at his face. From the expression on his face, you can know his mood at this time.

The paintings collected by the Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s, you don’t need to think about them at all. They must be those famous Western paintings collected by Japanese companies when Japan’s economy was at its most prosperous.

In the 1970s and 1980s, before the Plaza Accord came into effect, when Japan's economy was at its peak, a small island country, relying on advanced mechanical processing and electronics industry, surpassed the former Soviet Union, smashing all the advanced European Union. The country has become the second largest economy in the world after the United States.

At that time, Japan was not a country that was fully supported by the real estate economy. They had various advanced manufacturing industries. At that time, Japan could export a large number of industrial products every year and earn a lot of foreign exchange from all over the world.

The rich Japanese at that time could really be called the kind of people who had money and nowhere to spend. They not only purchased real estate and various mineral resources all over the world, but also extended their hands to various countries and various types of art. Needless to say, goods, antiques, cultural relics, etc. At that time, they did not know how much they bought.

In the Western art world at that time, it can be said that these Japanese upstarts were the most popular. These wealthy Japanese people not only swept away the antiques and cultural relics of various eras, but also modern and contemporary Western art. Don't miss it, especially the Western oil paintings that are easy to carry and realize, which are very popular among these Japanese.

At that time, those Western art intermediaries were also very black-hearted. They often brought in some paintings by unknown painters, and then fooled the Japanese to buy them, but the Japanese were willing to buy back a lot of junk oil paintings.

Of course, not all Japanese would buy such junk oil paintings. For example, some Japanese companies at that time were very shrewd. In order to deal with the possible economic downturn, or to deal with exchange rate changes, they often exported a After a large number of commodities are exchanged for foreign exchange, these foreign exchange will not be directly exchanged for Japanese yen.

They will choose to go to major well-known galleries in Europe and the United States, or those large antique auctions, to bid for antiques or oil paintings.

At that time, there were many works of well-known European painters, all of which fell into the hands of the Japanese at that time. For example, the famous French painter Monet's water lily series, some of which were bought by the Japanese and returned to Japan. Several Van Gogh works, the most famous of which is of course Van Gogh's representative work "Sunflowers". Van Gogh painted a total of more than a dozen sunflowers, one of which was bought by the Japanese.

But later, the guys in Europe, after knowing this kind of behavior of Japanese companies, gathered again and began to count these Japanese.

For example, taking out some not-so-good works of well-known painters to fool the Japanese, or deliberately asking for help to raise the price in the auction where the Japanese participated, anyway, it has raised the acquisition cost of these Japanese companies a lot. .

It is said that before the economic crisis broke out in Japan, the Japanese bought various cultural relics and works of art worth more than tens of billions of dollars from European and American countries. The most expensive oil paintings were the oil paintings they bought at high prices.

Later, after the economic crisis broke out, when many Japanese wanted to realize the oil paintings they had returned from bidding in Europe and the United States, they tragically discovered that they had been miserable by the **** in Europe and America, and they paid a high price to buy them back. Those oil paintings are worthless at all and cannot be sold.

Even if there are some genuine products bought at high prices~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the price will be greatly discounted because they are not representative works of well-known painters, or the peak works.

This made the Japanese and Japanese companies who were fooled quite annoyed. Later, some people couldn't make it, so they simply sold the oil paintings at a low price, while some individuals or companies with strong anti-risk capabilities simply sold the oil paintings. The paintings were locked in the underground vaults of major Japanese banks.

A few years ago, some European and American art media once conducted a survey. They calculated that there are currently about 1.4 billion US dollars worth of Western oil paintings locked in the vaults of major banks in Japan. As for other Artwork, it is even more impossible to count.

Oil paintings worth more than $1.4 billion, how many paintings are there? This shows how much money the Japanese smashed indiscriminately back then.

After entering two thousand years, some Japanese companies and individuals have also changed their strategies. They no longer lock all those oil paintings in the vault. After all, locking in the vault will not bring them any benefits.

And those oil paintings also need to be maintained, so they simply took these oil paintings directly to some art galleries or museums for exhibition, and these in the Fukuoka Art Museum should be the same batch. (To be continued.)