Chapter 211 "Pillowstone in the Mountains"
When Li Yi heard that the man was going to give the painting to him, he threw his hand away and said goodbye. It would be better to ask you to give me more price!
The girl glanced at her man and smiled at Li Yi:
"Sir, the Tianhuang stone sculpture just now..."
Li Yi shook his head,
"That thing has a good material, but I can't see what is not Zhou Bin's. Besides, 30 million is too expensive and I can't afford it. OK, what else is there? If not, we will say goodbye!"
"Yes! Of course there are! Didn't you just say that you can understand Chinese paintings? I'll show you two treasures!"
The man said, taking out the key and opened the door of the bedroom next to the master bedroom. Li Yi noticed that the door was not an ordinary wooden door at all, but rather like a thick iron door disguised as a wooden door. He thought to himself: I'm afraid I'm really going to take out a good thing this time.
Within two minutes, the man took out four scrolls, put them one by one on the coffee table, and made a gesture of asking for help.
Li Yi walked to the sofa and sat down, picked up a scroll and opened it.
This is a vertical scroll of colored paper. I looked at the inscription. First, there were two semicircles seals, which were combined with the two characters Guimao, which should be the year of the painting. Then there was the inscription, "The stones in the mountains are good, and you can forget the sorrow of a thousand days in one's sleep..." The end was signed as Shixi Cannavadaoist, and Shixi seal was stamped.
Li Yi's eyes narrowed suddenly. Who is Shixi? It was a large-sized body with Shitao and the Bada Shanren Zhu Da, Hongren and Shitao, who were called "the fourth monk of the early Qing Dynasty"!
Huncan is good at painting landscapes, and learns from Huang Gongwang and Wang Meng. His paintings have a stable layout and a thick brushwork. The sceneries are often not defeated by novelty, but are deep in the ordinary. His paintings use skeleton texture and squid texture, and thick ink dot moss. Therefore, most of the landscapes he makes give people a feeling of quiet mountains and quiet waters and lush grass and trees.
Li Yi thought about it and had recognized the origin of this painting. It should be the "Picture of Pillows in the Mountains" included in the collections of "Famous Paintings of China of All Ages" and "Collected Paintings of the Honkan Paintings" and other paintings!
That could not be the original work! Because Li Yi vaguely remembers that this painting should be the old collection of Wang Boyuan and Wang Jiqian, the owners of "Yiguanxuan". At that time, many articles were published on the authenticity of this painting. How could such a famous painting be left here?
With this idea, he looked at the picture carefully, but found that it really looked like a genuine work of a scattered man. How could this be possible? Could it be that he was misunderstood?
It is normal to be misleading, but it is not normal not to be misleading. It is better to use the spiritual appraisal card!
Li Yi looked at the drawing paper again. He didn't see any flaws, so he had no choice but to touch it with his left hand, and then rubbed his eyes to dissolve the shock on his face.
He actually knew that the author of this painting had just been identified by his work not long ago, and that work was very strange and true and false... The author of this painting was actually the mysterious Ding Yi!
After identifying the fake characters and real paintings last time, Li Yi wanted to ask the two masters who Ding Yi was, but Zhang Yongwen did not confirm the fact that the author of the imitation was, which made him resist the impulse and asked Ding Yi simple, how should he explain that he knew Ding Yi?
So he wanted to collect the painting at that time. On the one hand, it was because Qi Baishi's real couplet could guarantee that he would not lose money. On the other hand, it was because he wanted to take the imitation painting to Zhong Haoqing to see if she knew who Ding Yi was. Unfortunately, there was no chance at that time, but there was no problem. Now the opportunity has come again.
"How much does this painting cost?"
The girl looked at her man, and the man slapped her face,
"5.5 million, the original work of Huncan, one of the four painting monks in the early Qing Dynasty. This price should not be expensive, right?"
Li Yi sneered twice.
"If it is an authentic work, the price is really fair, but how do you guarantee that this is an authentic work?"
The man looked at Li Yi with laughter and cry,
"My sister said you bought two things just now. I guess you are an expert. The authenticity of things depends on your eyes. Why should I guarantee you?"
"Because I know the inheritance of this painting! The original collection of this painting was originally collected by Wang Boyuan and Wang Jiqian in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2003, it was transferred to the hands of Leyizhaiweier and his wife. Later, it appeared in the special auction of ancient calligraphy and paintings of the Huixin Leyizhai Collection held in Guardoir, Hong Kong, and was sold for 4.6 million yuan."
Having said this, he paused, looked at the reactions of the brother and sister before continuing:
"As long as you search for these news carefully, you can find them online, you won't tell me you don't know, right? So I'm very curious that some people imitate famous paintings with orderly inheritance and order. But what's the use of imitating them even if they are real?"
The man was stunned for a moment and said:
"You are so strange. Since you think the painting is fake, you just don't buy it. I've said a lot of things in a long and whispered way. What do you want to do?"
Li Yi has a headache. I just want to buy this imitation so I said that!
You think, I want to buy this painting, but I know it is imitation, but you offer it so high. If I don’t prove it, I can see that it is imitation, will you sell it to me at the price of the imitation painting? If I can prove it... OK, no Tang Seng, he stared into the man’s eyes and said word by word:
"Because I know it is imitation, but I still want to buy it, so I want to let you know that you should quote it according to imitation painting!"
A sneer appeared on the corner of the man's mouth.
"So that's what it means. OK, then I'll tell you, I know what you said, but I still want to say that this painting is real! Because there are many things you don't know here!"
Li Yi rubbed his forehead.
"Don't tell me that you took the 4.6 million!"
The man smiled,
"Of course I didn't buy that 4.6 million, because that would lead to a loss-making business. But this painting is really the painting that appeared at the auction. If I believe me, I will transfer it to you without making a penny of 4.6 million. If I don't believe it, look at those paintings."
Li Yi's head was so big that he looked like he didn't look like a dead duck's mouth. But what happened behind this made him so firmly believe that this was the auctioned one? Could it be that the so-called orderly painting is really this one? In other words, from the beginning, it was imitated?
Li Yi remembered the debate caused by this painting back then, and thought to himself that there is really such a possibility!
When this painting "Pillow in the Mountain" appeared in the world, it was almost exactly the same as the painting "Shuige Mountain Pavilion" collected by the Hui'an Museum, so several people used their own methods to verify the authenticity of the painting. In the end, the painting was included in several collections of paintings, which seemed to be a winner for those who proved that the painting was the original.
But if the painting in front of me was really the debate, it would be a great irony! But is it possible?
He raised his head, glanced at the confident brother and sister, and asked:
"Then... can you tell me what the so-called things I don't know are?"
The man shook his head, but the sister said:
"It's okay to tell you, but you must guarantee that once we tell you the truth, you must buy this painting. The price is, according to the one my brother just said, 4.6 million, we won't make your money."
Li Yi shook his head, he is not a fool. If you just make up a random stolen person, what kind of old man who bought paintings died, and the unfilial descendants don’t know how to deal with it randomly, wouldn’t I be cheated to death?
"Forget it, I won't ask, look at the next one!"
After he said this, the brother and sister felt uncomfortable. They saw that the younger sister looked at her brother and then whispered:
"I don't know if you have heard of a rumor, that is, the person who took this painting lost the painting..."
Li Yi slapped his forehead suddenly, and he finally understood that the brother and sister were also victims! The reason why they firmly believed that this painting was the original work at the auction was because someone had put a trap for them!
Those people first forged the news of the stolen painting, and then found a way to let the siblings know the news. Then, they made a clever arrangement to make the painting appear unexpectedly in front of the siblings... The rumors of the stolen painting, coupled with the fact that they can almost be superb painting skills with fake and real, if they add a price that is exciting enough, I am afraid that the siblings will really jump in!
This is the result of not having experienced it in Panjiayuan. There seem to be a few similar things happening there, right? But these brothers and sisters are not worthy of sympathy. Even though they know they are robbers, they still want to take advantage of them, so they deserve it!
Li Yi, who guessed the truth, expressed helplessness, but no matter what, he could not be the sucker. If Ding Yi didn't know, he wouldn't know, and no one would die.
After such a struggle, he was somewhat expecting the remaining paintings. What stories would these three paintings have?
Seeing that her temptation did not arouse Li Yi's reaction, my sister curled her lips and waited for it to be said again, but when she saw the man shook his head slightly, she had to close her mouth unwillingly, just staring at Li Yi with her big eyes, wishing she could pounce on him and beat him up!
The second painting is a vertical ink-paper work, and it is also a landscape painting. After looking at the signature, it is a work of Xie Zhiliu.
Xie Zhiliu and Li Yi don’t know much, but he knows that this old man and Zhong Haoqing are very similar in many aspects. First of all, both of them have high attainments in calligraphy and painting, and are both good at fine brushwork and flowers and birds. Secondly, both of them are most famous not in calligraphy and painting, but in ancient calligraphy and painting appraisal!
In the eyes of the world, Xie Zhiliu's achievements in calligraphy are slightly higher than his achievements in painting, so the price of his paintings is not high. Large-sized landscape paintings are basically maintained between 120,000 and 150,000 per square foot, while small-sized ones are even cheaper.
Chapter completed!