When he heard Li Yi offer 240,000 yuan, although he was mentally prepared, Kusta still felt very excited, but what he showed was a hint of hesitation flashing in his eyes.

"240,000? Although I don't understand very much, Mr. Li, the price seems to be a bit low. Besides, I always think these Japanese porcelains seem to be more beautiful, but now they have become the most popular..."

Kusta's expression was very vivid and his movements were exaggerated, but Li Yi knew that he was taking the opportunity to hide his surprise.

Therefore, he smiled and shook his head.

In fact, the price he bought is indeed a bit low. Moreover, the price is not only low, but it can even be said to be a bit outrageous.

Because don’t say that this is a complete set of Flower God Moon Cups, in fact, the real value of just that rose cup is more than 5 million soft sister coins. Moreover, if you encounter those domestic collectors who have eleven other Flower God Cups but are missing this rose cup, I’m afraid that someone may rush to make a deal with him if he offers a price of 10 million!

However, shoveling the land is just a advantage, let alone shoveling the land of foreigners?

Moreover, for a foreigner who can use a rose cup that is likely to be worth more than 10 million soft sister coins as an ordinary coffee cup, 240,000 euros is definitely a conscientious price.

Li Yi knew that if this price was known to other domestic collectors, they would definitely scold his conscience for being eaten by the dog. But in fact, if they were replaced by themselves, their offer would probably be several times more than 240,000. And when they communicated in the circle in the future, they would never be ashamed of it. Instead, they would even swear, and even regard this transaction as a classic among the classics of bargaining!

This is picking up bargains. Indeed, many times, picking up bargains is purely naked. A practical robbery caused by the ambiguous amount of information and knowledge!

However, this kind of robbery is a legal act compared to other robberies, because it is like a pheasant and perverted wolf, and the robbery object is often very satisfied!

"Mr. Kusta, I admit that I am not sure about the specific market price of those Japanese porcelains. However, it is necessary to emphasize that Japanese porcelains only appeared in the 17th century, and these pieces are so exquisite, you can imagine that they were fired and they will never be too long, and the value of antiques is often proportional to the time they exist..."

Kusta really didn't know how to react to Li Yi's long-term discussion. The more he listened, the more he felt a headache. In the end, he had to smile bitterly and nodded. Well, you won, you won in your bad enough English. Instead of listening to you stuttering in a long-term discussion here, I might as well make a deal quickly to get real money and silver in my hand...

Li Yi was unknown to Custa’s idea, but he believed that it was his fluent English that accurately expressed his meaning, thus convinced him...

Therefore, he stood up happily and stretched out his right hand at Custa. It was not easy, the bird singing finally passed!

The next procedure was very simple. Li Yi took out the standard format transfer agreement he had always carried with him, filled in the price on it, and handed it to Kusta.

Kusta took over the agreement and found that it was actually a few simple words, but the transaction itself was not complicated, so he quickly signed his name.

“Happy cooperation!”

"Happy cooperation! Just..."

Kusta raised his eyebrows, just what?

"I just don't know where your bathroom is, Mr. Custa, I..."

"Hahahaha, have you seen that corridor? You walk to the end, and then on your right, yes, I wish you a happy one! Hahaha!"

Seeing Custa laughing cheerfully, Li Yi instantly felt that although this guy has grown a little fat, frustrated, and has performed a little stupidly, his personality is actually very good. If they come to trade again now, he will definitely... lower the price...

Alas, I'm still soft-hearted! But there's no way, who made him a good person?!

After leaving the bathroom and handing over the money, Li Yi was about to leave, but at this time, Kusta suddenly called him.

"Mr. Li, I am very happy to meet you as a friend. I think we should celebrate it well! Please wait. I remember that my family also has a bottle of good wine from Mutton Castle in Bordeaux. Today, let's kill it!"

Custa got up and went to find wine, and Li Yi, who had done the most important thing, finally had the leisure to look around. He was ready to visit this Italian country villa.

Kusta’s home is the most ordinary Western country villa. I don’t know if it’s because he and his family are lazy, so even the living room looks a bit messy, so Li Yi just looked around and lost interest.

However, just as he was about to return to his seat and sit down, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a picture frame hidden behind the sofa, and from the size, the length was at least about two meters.

After looking at the wall behind the sofa, Li Yi nodded. This should be an oil painting, and it was mostly hung on this wall, but how could it be thrown in this place?

Kusta came out with a wine glass and found that Li Yi was looking at the empty wall. He suddenly slapped his head. By the way, he almost forgot. This guy, but he said from the beginning that he was not only interested in porcelain, but all good things!

At that moment, he didn't bother to drink and celebrate. He strode over and dragged the huge picture frame from behind the sofa in front of Li Yi.

"This is an oil painting, and it was given to him by a friend of my grandfather. I always hang it here before, but two days ago, Rosa came over to play, so I hid it..."

This guy talked a long time, and Li Yi finally realized that he was still a bachelor, and Rosa was likely to become his future wife, so he hid the oil painting when Rosa came to his house...

Because, this oil painting is a naked woman!

This oil painting is very large, with a width of about one meter, and a length of nearly two meters. On the picture, it depicts a Western girl lying on the slanting hands holding her head.

To be honest, Li Yi was not very interested in this type of oil painting. Moreover, according to his aesthetics, he found that the body shape of a naked woman in this oil painting should have some problems. Not only is her head slightly larger, but she also treats naked women normally according to Western oil paintings. The naked woman's waist is too thin, while her thighs are a little too short...

However, even such a picture that is not very coordinated, Li Yi vaguely felt that he seemed to have seen it somewhere...

After rubbing his chin, he suddenly remembered that he had indeed seen it, but what he saw was not this painting, but another painting that used the model and almost had the same posture, but in that painting, the model was wearing clothes!

The painting that Li Yi has seen is a world-famous painting called "Maha in Clothing". The painting is the representative work of the famous painter Francisco Goya in Spanish history. It plays an extremely important role in the history of world oil painting. In some introduction materials about world-famous paintings, its ranking is even before the painting "Lavender Mist" he got!

Thinking of that painting, Li Yi immediately thought of an unconfirmed legend about "Maha in Clothing", and in that legend, this "Maha in **" exists!

Francisco Goya was a court painter who was already very famous in the late 18th century. He was particularly good at creating portraits and once painted portraits for the Spanish royal family and many cultural celebrities at that time.

As a famous portrait artist, his painting "Maha in Clothing" has the same problem of inconsistent proportions of the human body, just like this "Maha in Naked". According to his styling ability, this situation should be absolutely impossible, so people guessed that he did it intentionally.

As we all know, in the history of traditional Spanish painting, nude female portraits rarely appear because they were intolerable by the Spanish Inquisition at that time. But Goya painted a painting called "Naked Maha" and used an unreasonable human body shape slightly exaggeratedly. Therefore, people think that he was using that painting to express his dissatisfaction with the rules and regulations of the time.

From this perspective, it not only explains why there are discordant human body proportions in oil paintings, but also explains why there are two almost the same at the same time, but one is dressed and the other is naked.

Because in legend, it was because he drew a naked woman at that time, in order to deal with the inspection of the Inquisition, he had to draw another picture in his clothes!

In fact, there is an unconfirmed legend about the existence of these two paintings at the same time, but it is related to the models in the painting.

It is said that this model was the wife of a very powerful duke at that time. The duke asked Goya to draw a portrait of his beloved wife. Goya was moved by the beauty of the lady, so after painting the portrait, he returned to his studio and drew this wonderful "Naked Maha" based on his memory. It was precisely because it was painted based on memory that the naked woman in the painting had some flaws in the body shape.

But later, I don’t know how the nobleman found out about this news. He thought it was teasing and blasphemy against his woman, so he was very furious and prepared to come to Goya to ask for it clearly.

At this time, Goya also received a notification from his friend and quickly drew a picture of "Maha in Clothing" at a speed that exceeded common sense, thus dealing with this matter.

Because the times have been long, this legend has not been confirmed, but this legend also explains why these two paintings exist at the same time, and also explains why with Goya's skills, there are so many flaws in the proportion of the human body in the painting.

Although neither of these two legends has been proven, "Naked Maha" and "Clothed Maha" have indeed become Goya's representative works. These two paintings have their own status in the history of world oil painting!

Currently, "Maha in Clothing" is collected in the Prado Gallery in Madrid, Spain, and the "Maha in Nude" mysteriously disappeared during World War II!
Chapter completed!