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Chapter 634 Another Genuine Artwork

"Little brother likes such paintings?"

When Chen Wenzhe came back to his senses after reading it, Qi Hongxing spoke with a smile on his face.

Who hasn't been young yet?If it didn't make people think that he was old and unscrupulous by hanging it out, he would definitely show it openly for everyone to appreciate.

"It's a good painting!" Chen Wenzhe didn't hide anything, he really liked it, and the painting was really good.

Chen Wenzhe remembers very clearly that the auction price of the pair of "2008-Shendu" was 1800 million, and the commission was more than 2000 million.

Now that I think about it, how could such a precious painting easily flow into such a small shop?
However, even if it wasn't that one, the value of this one is not low!
The same theme, the same work of heart, how can the price be lower?
Maybe with the bonus of the previous one, this one is more expensive?So how could he not like it?

"There's another picture below, which also depicts a beautiful woman. Would you like to take a look? It's a bit of a misnomer!"

As he spoke, Qi Hongxing lifted the pair of women playing mahjong, revealing a picture of a beauty below.

This is really a beauty, and her name is Miss Jenny, but this is not a foreigner, but a Chinese in ancient costume.

Seeing this oil painting, Chen Wenzhe was a little speechless.

When "2008-Shendu" was auctioned at that time, it seemed that another sky-high priced oil painting was auctioned at that auction, and the name seemed to be "Miss Jenny"!
This portrait was carefully created by Xu Beihong in 1939, entrusted by the Belgian vice-consul in Ligapo, Blanchard, and painted for his friend Jenny.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Beihong actively advocated the Anti-Japanese War and opposed compromise and surrender.

He traveled all over Southeast Asia, selling works for charity, and donated all the proceeds of US$10 to the anti-Japanese cause of the motherland.

It should be noted, how big was one hundred thousand US dollars at the time?
Ms. Jenny is a celebrity in Xingzhou, her ancestral home is in Guangdong Province. She cares about the motherland and actively donates money to support the motherland's war of resistance.

In the painting, Miss Jenny is wearing a cheongsam and sitting in a wicker chair. The warm sunshine is scattered on her face from the window. Her face is quiet, her posture is dignified and elegant, and her manner is generous, showing the gentle and demure beauty of oriental women.

The painter uses Western realistic techniques to outline the characteristics of the characters, while at the same time gaining insight into the inner world of the characters, showing the temperament and spirit of the characters.

It can be said that this is the one with the best use of color among all Xu Beihong's oil paintings.

Using the technique of French Impressionism, he handled the light and shadow effects very delicately and proficiently, reaching the peak among contemporary Chinese Western painting painters.

Moreover, such a large painting has no alterations, and the pen is quite decisive and smooth, which is very rare.

In addition to the attainments in painting skills, the story behind this portrait is also the reason for people's covetousness.

In the 30s, when the war was raging, Xu Beihong took his paintings and his collection of calligraphy and painting masterpieces to Nanyang, and held art exhibitions in Lijiapo and other places to raise funds for the War of Resistance.

The art exhibition was quite successful, and all donations from the donation became pension funds for the orphans who died in the Fifth Route Army's War of Resistance.

"This one has the inscription left by Master Xu Beihong, but it's just an oil painting, and it also depicts a half-native woman, something a little bit like that!"

well?What?

Because of burning your head?Or because of wearing a cheongsam?

Or tilt your feet?Chen Wenzhe was a little puzzled.

Master Xu Beihong can't paint such a woman?Or is he unable to paint oil paintings?
Chen Wenzhe looked at the painting carefully, he was also afraid of making an oolong, and bought a copy, it would be funny.

Check the details of this oil painting carefully, no matter how you look at it, it feels very good.

In this painting, Xu Beihong slightly deflects Miss Jenny's face sideways, which not only basically maintains the relatively frontal portrait of the character, but also avoids the rigidity of the image caused by the absolute "frontal law".

The hairstyle combed back highlights the integrity of the character's face;
In the depiction of facial features, the main axis is the relationship between eyebrows and eyes, nose and mouth;

In terms of facial structure, by emphasizing the forehead, cheekbones, and chin of the characters, it presents the implicit and rich image beauty of oriental women.

Xu Beihong successfully portrayed Miss Jenny as sitting in a rocking chair with her right leg raised.

And this "woman in the rocking chair" is actually a very classic style of the painter.

Prior to this, Xu Beihong had used this style to depict his wife Jiang Biwei and his beloved student Sun Duoci, but these works were mostly sketches or studies on paper with ink and color.

The source of this style can still be traced back to the creation of Western classical portrait masters, but after Xu Beihong's repeated practice, the artist has transformed the Western-style sofa or armchair into an Eastern-style bamboo and rattan rocking chair.

Furthermore, the flamboyant posture of Western women is fixed into a subtle oriental appearance with a slightly sideways posture and hands placed on the legs.

In "Portrait of Miss Jenny", Xu Beihong further developed this style into a variant of "Kicking Feet".

This conscious variant not only conforms to Miss Jenny's "social butterfly" identity, but also emphasizes the free and open cultural character of Nanyang, which is mixed with Huayang;

At the same time, around this change, Xu Beihong enhanced the richness and pertinence of this style of expression through structural shaping and clothing pattern depiction.

Regardless of why this painting appeared here, whether it was the high-priced auction work he had heard of before, the one in front of him was the real one anyway.

At that time, it seemed that the price of this painting was 5000 million yuan, and if the transaction tax was included, it would be close to [-] million yuan.

Now that nearly 10 years have passed, the price of this painting will only be higher now.

It's a bit strange that a famous painting worth half a billion is showing up in this small shop!

However, these two paintings seem to have really flowed into Chang'an City.

Xu Beihong's famous painting "Portrait of Miss Jenny" is Xu Beihong's largest anti-Japanese oil painting, and it was indeed purchased by a mysterious buyer in Chang'an.

The time when "Miss Jenny" was filmed seemed to be in the 2011 God Capital Jiade Autumn Filming.

At that time, the starting price was 3800 million yuan, the transaction price was 5000 million yuan, and the total was 5800 million yuan including commission.

And it was at this Poly Autumn Auction that the buyer who had invested a huge sum of money in "Miss Jenny" also bought the masterpiece "2008-Shendu".

Chen Wenzhe must have remembered correctly, because it happened to be the low tide period of the antique market at that time, and he remembered the transaction records during that period very clearly.

At that time, a picture of Xu Beihong's horse was bought for more than 700 million yuan, and a figure of Huang Zhou was bought for more than 300 million yuan.

In fact, since the autumn of 2011, China's art market has been in a "slowdown period".

The autumn auction in 2012 was even considered to be an absolute "low tide period".

Many insiders should remember what happened during this period of time.

(End of this chapter)