Almighty painter

Chapter 186 Giants Gallery
"Mrs. Cruz?"

Over fifty, the gray-haired hotel butler commanded the black concierge car and parked in front of the small courtyard of Aman's suite.

Regardless of the slippery ground, he trotted towards Mrs. Sakai.

The meticulous butler service of luxury hotels has always been a golden signboard created by established global hotel giants such as Aman, Hilton, and COMO in order to win the favor of high-net-worth customers.

These butlers have received the most professional training and are on call 24 hours a day. The average age is over 45 years old, with rich experience and extensive contacts.

The butler of the Aman Hotel proudly embroidered two crossed keys with golden silk thread on the chest of the black custom-made suit.

Only the strongest in the field of hotel butlers can obtain this "golden key" honorary certification.

From making sure that the water temperature in the bathtub with rose petals floating in the room is exactly 41.5 degrees Celsius before the guest makes an appointment to check in, to providing professional travel service guides, from temporary trusteeship to getting tickets for the football match box at the Opera House, to buying asthma medicine for customers and even They are all professionals for emergency tracheotomy.

The golden key butler, who earns a full US$30 a year, is sweating profusely now.

"The car assigned to Miss Sakai is located in Laiyada District. Do you need me to contact the driver to report Miss Sakai's situation? Ma'am."

The housekeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

He knew the identities of the two long-term VIPs who lived in this small courtyard.

Wife and daughter of well-known artist Kazunari Sakai.

The young Miss Sakai called a car at night and wandered to the local slums in Yangon.

Sakai Katsuko claimed to have her mother's permission.

The concierge department sent a car without review, but now the mother seems to be anxious to find her daughter.

The butler didn't know what happened. If there was any mistake for this kind of underage VIP, whether the hotel had fulfilled its responsibility of guarding the venue or not, the reputation would definitely be severely damaged.

Artists are difficult to serve, and they have great influence in the upper circles, and their energy is more exaggerated than rock stars.

The housekeeper found Mrs. Sakai standing on the corridor at the door, her windbreaker unbuttoned, looking like she was in a hurry to go out, but she was staring at her mobile phone, motionless, with a complex expression on her face.

"lady?"

He called out again softly.

Mrs. Sakai remained like a sculpture, unresponsive.

She turned a deaf ear to the housekeeper's yelling, and gently zoomed in and out the screen with her fingers.

The housekeeper glanced at the screen from the corner of his eye, and found that it was a very strange work, and it should not be finished yet.

It's not like an orthodox oil painting,

The decorative paintings hanging in the corridors of Aman Hotel are all carefully selected, and the housekeepers also have a certain degree of artistic appreciation.

He found that although this painting can only be seen roughly, it is really beautiful.

Different from those works of art that I have seen before, the brushstrokes are exotic and not obscure.

The butler involuntarily glanced twice subconsciously.

"Does it look good?" Mrs. Sakai suddenly asked.

"I'm very sorry, ma'am, I didn't mean to."

The butler immediately took two steps back. He was only concerned about the situation of the guests and had no intention of probing Mrs. Sakai's privacy.

"I'm not blaming you, I'm just asking what you think of this base map."

Mrs. Sakai raised her phone to the housekeeper and asked casually.

"This is Ms. Sakai's painting. It's very innovative. It should be a good work." The housekeeper knew the general situation of each VIP, and knew that Ms. Sakai was a well-known art genius in Asia.

"good?"

Mrs. Sakai shook her head lightly.

She wasn't really asking for the opinion of the hotel staff.

Mrs. Sakai was just too surprised.

It's like when you suddenly see a beautiful mirage in the clouds, you will also subconsciously want to ask the people around you whether it is just an illusion in your mind.

She never expected to see Gu Weijing draw such a work.

It's a bit perverted!

Excellent techniques are second to none. This feeling of perfect fusion of Eastern and Western styles already has the testimonials and prototypes of famous masters.

This is much more eye-catching than simple techniques.

Skills can be practiced slowly.

It is nothing more than a question of the speed of growth, and this ability to control cultural collisions and blends cannot be achieved by many famous artists.

the way of the master,

right there.

"It's so shocking. It's not only good, it's a little monster. Maybe he and Shengzi can really support each other to the end, maybe."

Mrs. Sakai had this thought in her mind.

"Forget it, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so let the children go."

For a few seconds, she fought the battle between heaven and man in her mind, and suddenly relaxed.

Mrs. Sakai stamped her feet, turned around and walked back in the direction she came from.

"Mrs. Cruz, you?"

The housekeeper looked at Mrs. Sakai's back suspiciously.

"There's no need for a car, I'm going back to my room to rest." Mrs. Sakai waved her hand, took out her mobile phone from her pocket, chose a contact, and said to the phone, "Hello, is it ten percent?"

……

ねぎま Yakitori shop in Chiyo-ku, Tokyo.

【ねぎま】The original meaning is a cooking method of grilling meat skewers. Take fresh chicken breast or chicken leg meat and wear them on bamboo sticks, with green onion segments or flattened garlic in the middle, and slowly heat them with charcoal fire.

During the grilling process, the fat will slowly seep out from under the skin of the chicken. The aroma of the fat will mix with the flavors of scallions and garlic. It is sweet and not greasy. It is the essence of Japanese cuisine. .

This shop named【ねぎま】Yakitori restaurant does not belong to those expensive Michelin Japanese food.

On the contrary, it has the taste of the Fly Restaurant hidden in Shijing Fireworks. In addition to providing various skewers, there are also oden and stuffed miso ramen.

"Sakai-kun, you still have a good appetite." The cook, who was wearing a white gown with ties like a bathrobe, put three skewers of roast beef on the black dinner plate in front of Uncle Sakai, and said with a smile.

"Oh!"

The fat and round Professor Kazushige Sakai put a skewer into his mouth, sucked his mouth, rolled his throat comfortably, and the whole skewer disappeared.

He took a sip of the sake in the glass, looking happy like a 230-jin fat man.

"Master Dagu is still a good crafter, this meat is delicious and delicious!"

Sakai Kasunari gave a thumbs up, casually wiped the glistening grease from the corner of his mouth, without the style of an elegant artist.

In fact, Master Otani's barbecue skills can only be called proficient.

It is incomparable with those large chain barbecue restaurants, not to mention the high-end kaiseki cuisine and the carefully cooked barbecue steaks in Michelin restaurants. From the raw materials to the production process, this small shop can be slammed.

Probably the only advantage is that it is cheap.

A skewer of chicken skin yakiniku is 110 yen, chicken breast yakiniku [-] yen, and beef yakiniku [-] yen. If you don’t mind eating grilled chicken buttocks, a skewer is only [-] yen, which is affordable even for poor students studying in Tokyo.

Among the Three Volumes of Kings of Cultivating Immortals in East Asia,

It is said that Dongxia people do not take vacations, Koreans do not sleep, and Dongying people do not eat.

The reason why Japanese people don’t eat is because Japanese food is too expensive.

Living in Tokyo is not easy.

This is a very prosperous place, and the cost of living is also very high. It is normal to spend six or seven thousand yen for a good meal.

Unlike his peers, Uncle Sakai likes anime, baseball, and idol stars.

His greatest hobby is eating.

When he was a young student, every Friday he would work as a part-time training instructor for the painting club of a private high school. After class, he would drive to this small shop with only a dozen square meters.

While looking at the accounts in the notebook, he continued to calculate how much money was left to cover the tuition fees for studying abroad, while eating a few skewers of barbecue to relax.

Even if it takes a long time to eat two skewers of beef and roasted birds, this is the happiest time he has ever had.

Now that Professor Sakai has developed a long time ago, he can buy this small shop ten times just by selling a painting, and his wallet is enough for him to eat truffles as potatoes and foie gras as pork liver, but he still likes the atmosphere in this shop.

Especially when the wife is not at home and no one is monitoring the weight.

Uncle Sakai often strolls over for supper.

Here is the taste of his memory,

In this small shop, he is not a great artist admired by hundreds of millions of people, he is still the "Sakai-kun" with a good appetite in the mouth of Master Otani.

Even though "Sakai-kun" has changed from a melancholy and handsome man as thin as a bamboo pole to a plump, round and cheerful meatball, he is still very relaxed.

The only person who doesn't fit in with this small restaurant is the young man in suit and leather shoes next to Professor Kazushige Sakai.

His complexion is pale, he wears a Vacheron Constantin gold watch on his wrist, and his golden hair is waxed smooth enough to make flies split their legs.

"Professor Sakai, please, please think carefully about Mashi Gallery, one or two oil paintings above 50*60 size can be delivered on a quarterly basis. Each work is 50 US dollars. You will be given within four years The Zurich Museum of Fine Arts will hold a thematic solo exhibition, and Marsh Gallery is also willing to provide a total signing fee of 800 million US dollars, so that the total quotation of the four-year contract can come to the range of 5000 million US dollars.”

The young man whispered to the big artists around him to sell the gallery behind him, and with the touch of his upper and lower lips, it was a contract of tens of millions of dollars, as if it was not dollars but waste paper.

Hanks Marsh is a hunter broker at Masch Gallery.

If the astronomical transaction prices in the auction house are fireworks that bloom in an instant, then the prices of the works of artists in the primary market like galleries are the bright lights in the hearts of investors.

Hype, bubbles, financial speculation, there are too many things that can affect the transaction price in the ever-changing auction market, but the price in the gallery can maintain a long-term basic stability.

In order to maintain the sound development of the market and attract the interest of big collectors.

An unwritten unspoken rule in the industry is,
Represented artists are sold at top galleries for slightly less than their future market valuations for the artist.

For a long time, the works sold in large galleries such as Gagosian and Lisson cost millions of dollars, but collectors usually made a profit after buying them and holding them for several years.

This is a pattern in which the left foot steps on the right foot to ascend to heaven.

The appreciation of the works of excellent agent painters drives the reputation of the gallery, and the improvement of the reputation of the gallery gives collectors confidence in buying.

Behind almost any great artist stands a gigantic gallery.

Giant galleries are like giant football teams, and they complement each other with excellent painters.

They can make a lot of money from the talent and reputation of the artists, and in case of a market price collapse, it is the gallery behind them that is willing to save the artist with a lot of money.

The most classic case in the art market is Damien Hirst, who was briefly crowned the No. 1 painter in the world.

Hirst Millennium encountered market fluctuations, the auction market was cold, and the transaction price plummeted.

It is widely rumored that the buyers under Larry Gagosian, the founder of Gagosian Gallery, rushed into the market with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash flow, and stabilized the market.

Picasso, Andy Warhol, Mondrian, Damien Hirst...

Today, any agent artist who is favored by such a giant gallery, if he can only sell tens of millions of dollars in art transactions in his life, he will really fail.

Anna Wayant, a beautiful and beautiful Canadian painter, was worth more than 100 times in an instant just because she and Larry Gagosian were rumored by the paparazzi.

The common sense that every art student knows is that it is not so much the artists but the galleries behind them that can determine the trend and direction of the art market.

Mashi Gallery is such a gallery giant, or in other words, it used to be such a gallery giant.

This used to refer to before the 70s.

The big galleries aren't magicians, they might be able to sell brass for gold and gold for diamonds, but they can't sell shit for gold prices.

Collectors are not fools either.

If you want to sell at a sky-high price, the painter himself must be at least a piece of gold.

Singing operas have famous actors, movies have starring roles, and galleries must also have leading artists who can be sold.

If you want to become a giant, it is not enough just to have money, you must also have enough art masters and works familiar to collectors.

Similar to Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol to Gagosian, Yayoi Kusama to OFA, John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono to Lisson Gallery.

Ma Shi Gallery belongs to the old-school gallery,

Founded in the smoke of World War II in 1943, it was once ranked among the top three in the industry, but missed the pop wave in the 70s, and after giving up the opportunity to sign with Andy Warhol at the last moment, there were no more important artists.” town place".

The promotion of several painters was not very successful, and the investment confidence of the collectors who had a good relationship with Mashi Gallery in the past was greatly hit.

Mashi Gallery has also fallen from a giant-level gallery in the past to the end of the first-tier gallery, and began to continue to develop like a second-tier gallery.

The Mashi family urgently needs to operate a successful enough, even a great artist, to reproduce its former glory, and it does not hesitate to spend a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)