Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1428 Six Dragons Picture

The two of them started taking pictures with their cameras from the moment they unpacked it. Fujita introduced to everyone: "This is the staff of Taisho Insurance. The collection must be supervised by them to ensure that when we hand it over, every piece is complete."

"The Fujita Museum of Art will then add a huge insurance policy to the collection, which is responsible for the artwork."

The staff of the art museum began to pull up the exhibition area with red velvet blocking tapes. Under the gaze of a group of men and women in beautiful clothes, they took out the porcelain and paintings one by one and began to set up the exhibition on the spot.

The paintings were arranged much faster than the porcelain. After all four paintings were arranged, Zhou Zhi found that the staff actually took out a small scroll from inside.

"Huh? What is that?" Zhou Zhi felt strange. The paintings used for exchange this time were all large paintings, and the previously unfolded works were all correct. Why are there more of them here?

Mr. Ma smiled and said, "I heard that his works would be used in exchange for ancient Chinese collections. Mr. Fan wrote a special note. Firstly, in this way, he confirmed the status of these paintings in his heart. Secondly, This is to express my approval for this event.”

"This calligrapher's work by Mr. Fan will also be donated, along with four pictures, to the Fujita Museum of Art for collection."

Fujita felt happy and worried at the same time. What he was happy about was that Bai received a painting donated by Fan Zeng, and with the embellishment of this "elegant thing", the value of these paintings would definitely increase again.

What I'm worried about is that after all this effort, if I release it in a short period of time, I might have to stab someone in the spine. Even if it were to be released, it would probably be the same as the six-hand scroll. It would no longer be easy to split, and it might have to be Package the whole auction, so the potential customer base will be much smaller.

After all, the number of customers who can buy four paintings at a time is much smaller than the number of customers who can buy one painting at a time.

But these are things for later. Now we still have to continue to follow the process. After the exhibition venue is decorated, the staff removes the guardrails that are actually useless and pretentious. Everyone starts to enter the exhibition area and enjoy it.

Zhou Zhi actually wanted to lie down on the six-hand scroll display cabinet like Mr. Ma, but Kenzaburo Fujita wanted to use him as a live advertisement, especially the introduction of Hong Xianci and Mao Ci. It would be impossible without him.

As for paintings, Zhou Zhi is no longer a mere layman. At least he is very familiar with several allusions to the content of Fan Zeng's paintings. It is not difficult for him to tell casual stories to fool the island audience.

In fact, these pictures are all of traditional themes. The reason why they are so valuable is mainly because of the large number of characters.

The only painting with only one man and one ghost, "Zhong Kui Trampling a Ghost", is good because the painter made some changes to the traditional subject matter.

The painting shows Zhong Kui with a shaggy beard and a high-spirited look, but the one who is stepping on the ghost is not him, but a horse sitting down with an exaggerated posture, four hooves flying in the air, and two front hooves raised high in the posture of a dancing horse.

Such changes are rarely seen in Zhong Kui's horse. Moreover, due to the artist's profound skill, the horse's expression is as arrogant as its owner, which greatly enhances the expressive tension of the painting.

Using Western perspective techniques, Zhong Kui and Pegasus almost want to jump out of the painting, and anyone who looks at them can't help but marvel.

This small-scale "internal invitation exhibition" was indeed very successful. After being thoughtful, I gradually came to realize that this was probably Sakamoto Goro's idea for the Fujiwara family.

But he was very happy with this trick.

However, the people of the island seemed to be very active in publicizing the arrival of two generations of Jurento porcelain and four paintings by Nozen in the Fujita Museum, but they seemed to have kept a low profile about the leakage of the six-hand scroll. So much so that the program that recorded Zhou Zhi was not broadcast, but was shown on the TV station through a translator, using Japanese broadcasts and close-ups of the exhibits. Zhou Zhi's camera only shook a little at the beginning of the exhibition, and he was almost like an ordinary guest. Even Ma Ye, who is wearing a Tang shirt, and Ikeda Qiu, who is wearing a Hepburn skirt, are more popular than him.

But these are not important anymore. Kenzaburo Fujita is still a very courageous person and directly asked Zhou Zhi and Ma Ye to take away the six hand scrolls.

Zhou Zhi now has a lot of precious collections, many of which are more precious than six-hand scrolls, but this is almost the first time that he has done so openly and openly.

Just like Sakamoto Goro's purchase of a large Yuan blue and white underglaze red jar, Zhou Zhi's move basically gave him a ticket to an international auction, a transaction worth a total of 70 million yuan, or almost 10 million US dollars. , enough to make him a guest at major auctions.

Although the condition of these six hand scrolls is worrying, it is due to historical reasons and preservation conditions. In fact, in terms of attachments, they are all complete and complete, and they are all accessories of the Qianlong Dynasty when they were brought out from Prince Chun’s Palace. Quite a few.

The decoration of the hand scroll is the most complicated. Take "Six Dragons" as an example. The outermost part is the green silk wrapper made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After unfolding the hand scroll, the first thing you see is the "sky" made of chicken wing wood. "Axle", on which there are silk ribbon "roller tape" and ivory "long roll buckle" used to tie the hand scroll.

After unfolding, a piece of yellow silk tapestry with five claws and a golden dragon decoration is displayed. This is called the "Tiantou", which is the outermost layer when rolling up the hand scroll to protect the center of the painting.

To the left of the head is the "introduction". The introduction is usually an article, similar to a "preface", which is made by the collector himself or by a master. It can be regarded as an introduction and foreshadowing before appreciation.

If there are two articles, the second article is called the "Vice Head".

"Yinshou" first appeared in the Ming Dynasty. It was used to inscribe the name of the hand scroll. It was made of dyed antique paper.

The introduction and subtitle of "Six Dragons" are simpler, made of light brown silk, with two and three seals respectively left on them.

There is a section of 10,000-character palindrome silk between the main head and the deputy head, which is called "the deputy water barrier".

Continuing to the left, after the deputy head, there is another section of ten thousand-character palindrome silk that separates the center of the painting and the deputy head, which is called "zhengshui".

Then the scroll enters the center of the painting, which is the main part of Chen Rong's painting.

It is said that before Chen Rong painted the dragon, he had to "bring two jars of green and red wine and tie a thick iron chain outside the door". This is called "inviting the dragon behind closed doors", which is a famous allusion in the history of painting. After that, he drank a lot until he was drunk. When he was so drunk that he couldn't distinguish between east, west, north and south, he stood up from the recliner, took off the kerchief on his head, wiped it with ink, and shouted wildly: "Are you drunk? You're not drunk!" After speaking, he raised his hands in the air. The scarf was swayed freely on the paper, and then he crumpled the scarf into a ball and shouted: "Go away!" He threw the scarf into the empty wine jar, then raised the fine pen and dabbed a few times, and a dragon appeared on the paper.

History records that he "splashed ink to form clouds, splashed water to form mist, screamed when he was drunk, and soaked in ink after taking off his clothes." The myth is no longer good.

Although the legend is too exaggerated, once the scroll of "Six Dragons" is opened, it is like a fishy wind blowing into the night, the turbid waves are emptying, and several ink dragons are flickering in and out of the sea waves and smoke, writhing willfully, as if hearing their sounds, like See its shape.

Although it is only a hand scroll with a height of one foot, it has a grand and far-reaching feeling like the vast ocean of the East China Sea. It is the best.

(End of this chapter)