Almighty painter

Chapter 424 A victory worth five billion

coax!

The messy Rubik's Cube that could not be restored fell to the ground and broke into thousands of pieces.

The already chaotic meeting place completely entered a state of disorder. Everyone was talking, and everyone wanted to discuss the news that shocked them with others.

So no one can hear what others are saying.

What you say is meaningless in itself.

present.

Everyone just wanted to instinctively express their shock, and relied on the continuous repetition of the language center to allow their bodies to slowly adapt to the incomprehensible information their brains had just received.

What did they hear?

Just now... the Elena family announced that they would donate 1.4 pieces of art in their possession free of charge? ? ?

Not a hundred pieces, not a thousand pieces.

That's a total of 1.4 paintings and artworks.

This number can definitely detonate the focus of public opinion around the world in an instant.

It is said that a collection was donated to build the Louvre Museum, but it has no water content.

Not a concept at all.

None of them are qualified.

There is another type that simply creates fake museums and art galleries, and launders money with fake works of art. One donation can bring out several cars.

But just hearing this name makes these great white-haired painters scratch their hearts and livers with envy, just like A Wang who saw the can of cheese and beef and wanted to meow.

They knew they were witnessing what was likely the largest donation of art in the entire Western world since World War II.

In sheer sheer numbers.

It is worthy of the French Prime Minister to come out and thank you personally, and by the way, the Louvre will open a separate exhibition hall for you.

Miss Anna's "detective cat" is synonymous with popular artists, satirizing Sir Brown's minority theory.

The remaining painters on the Forbes Artist Celebrity List, from beginning to end, include Cao Xuan, Hunter Bull, Yayoi Kusama, Stan Lee...all in one package.

It has an imperial background that cannot be washed away.

The description is not accurate enough.

The largest donation the Louvre has received in its history is often around US$1000 million.

And these have their origins in colonial-era museums.

Maybe Andy Warhol can barely count.

Maybe some masters may have a slight possibility ten years after their death, but as long as they are still alive, there is basically no chance.

Anna announced on the stage that the art collection collected by the Elena family over the past few centuries was donated to the Louvre, which is suspected of bragging.

unprecedented.

For example, the Middle East Cultural Center in the Louvre was donated by Prince Al-Waleed of Saudi Arabia, who ranked third on the Forbes rich list, with a donation of 1700 million euros.

How many important collections are needed to establish a well-known museum?

In fact, one piece is enough.

Having a large national museum named after him has been almost the only honor held by Picasso, the "founder of modern art", from the time after World War II to the present.

Now "Detective Cat" is inexplicably available.

But if you just casually calculate the rarity and market price of the collection, it is only based on the collection list that Anna just read out, which is the tip of the iceberg.

and independent museums specializing in the collection of works by Picasso and Andy Warhol.

The Louvre and the British Museum, these super impressive art museums, often have collections of hundreds or tens of millions of items.

But that's another super wild way to play.

When it started, it only relied on a collection of 50 pieces and a total of about US$ in assets.

For example, the Smithsonian Institution, the number one giant in the American art museum world, is the one that led the "Smithsonian Agreement/(Washington Agreement)" that linked the U.S. dollar to the gold standard.

Even though everyone present knew it clearly.

Even now.

Many of the "generous" large-scale donors in the early days of their establishment had worked as warmongers or cultural relic dealers, and most of them were collections from Eastern Xia and Egypt.

This is probably not a world record number in the history of European museum donations.

This honor is really enough to turn these arrogant painters with all kinds of weird personalities into docile kittens, with their heads stretched out, their ears erect, and their tails wagging for you to pet.

Some art societies, such as the Smithsonian Institution, which manages 19 museums and 21 large libraries, or generous and wealthy contemporary art collectors, are able to donate because the average unit price of contemporary art is low. to the number of collections in tens of thousands.

But when they were first established, many of the collections were not as large as Anna's announcement to donate.

And this kind of main body is the donation of oil paintings, which is not completely a concept.

Among serious donations, it is probably not difficult to rank among the top ten in history.

The hearts of every knowledgeable person present stopped for a moment...

You need to be able to donate $2000 million.

It’s exactly the same concept as the millions of tourists around the world who go to the Louvre every year just to see the Mona Lisa.

The National Gallery of Art in Reina Sofía in Spain is supported by a work of Picasso's "Guernica", while the Prado Museum next door relies on a small-scale sketch drawn by Titian in 1521 as a pillar. .

You can masturbate however you want.

The young lady masturbates until she is happy.

Definitely much more well-behaved than the neighborhood bully King Awang.

Let's just put it that way.

During the negotiations the day before yesterday, if Sir Brown had proposed to build a large museum for Cao Xuan designed around him, even if the "Oil Painting" aspect was not spent at all.

Mr. Cao will most likely comply.

It has nothing to do with integrity.

This is an achievement that will last forever and leave a name in history.

Thinking about it from another angle, it may be more impressive than seeing your own work put in the Louvre.

But how is that possible?

Sir Brown is not a big spender. Is he really here to be taken advantage of and make wedding clothes for others?

The fastest movers are still reporters.

The reporters who had just been ordered to leave under the arrangement of Sir Brown have rushed back with meows, including even the media people of "Oil Painting" magazine.

No one cares about the rule of not turning on the flash as much as possible when speaking at a live broadcast venue or recording a program.

clap clap.

Countless flashing lights lit up at the same time, making the serious art annual meeting discussion scene look like a red carpet catwalk at the Cannes Film Festival.

There is no time for reporters to ask questions at the annual meeting.

But everyone in the audience raised their arms like a dense jungle.

Every media person's face is filled with the fanatical expression of "little sister, click me, click me" and "flip my sign, flip my sign, I'm so cute!"

At this moment, everyone has countless questions in their minds.

"Miss Elena, are you serious? What deep-seated reasons prompted you to make such a decision? Is it possible that you will regret it and withdraw your decision?"

"What is the estimated value of the entire batch of donated artworks? Does the Elena family have an accurate estimate?"

“Where can we see a complete inventory of the Jelena family collection?”

"It really includes the original work of Leonardo da Vinci and two copies of "The Women of Algiers"!"

No one cares about the pressure from Sir Brown anymore.

At this moment, he was facing an heiress from a collecting family who had just announced that he would donate all the family's collections free of charge.

No matter if she is truly a saint, a schizophrenic, or the biggest loser in history.

But in the public context, she is now invincible.

The halo of Elena's family had just been smashed, and at this moment, a blazing halo was burning above the head of this young woman.

The halo that belongs only to "Anna".

Intangible and qualityless, yet so dazzling and dazzling that all onlookers had to bow their heads in reverence.

It seemed to be lighting up the entire venue.

It’s not the flashes of cameras that come and go, but the golden sparks of the goddess’ divine revelation.

Throwing 14,000 priceless works of art to the world, the golden sparks arose.

Forget Sir Brown and let the bullshit pressure eat shit.

Even if you are the Pope of Art, under the burning halo above the head of a real angel, you will be like a piece of papyrus trying to extinguish a raging fire, and will be instantly burned to ashes.

now.

If they continue to protest by leaving the meeting, they will not attract any public attention or appreciation. It will only make them look like idiots who cannot read the air.

If it weren't for the interview etiquette in their hearts and the security guys standing by the stage to maintain order, they would turn into the last bit of reason to hold them back.

It can't be done right now.

There really are tabloids that want news. Shameless paparazzi reporters have already rushed to the stage to kneel and hold up microphones to ask questions.

"Hmph, Harvard Business Review is a high-end elite business newspaper, so why are the elites not acting calmly?"

Reporter William raised his neck.

Look at those coquettish bitches rushing to the stage.

He was particularly arrogant and expressed his disdain for the financial newspapers that had rejected his internship during the job search stage, and then showed the ugly face of a shameless insider dog.

William smiled evilly, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and opened the client APP of "The Economic Review".

At this moment, the front page headline of the news software has been updated with a major news push.

The most eye-catching thing is the green and bold $50 billion symbol.

[$5 - a record donation amount in the art world to unveil the mystery of the Irina Family Museum for you]

Because the press release was written in advance and sent out at a later time.

and so.

The title of the news is still the same as the naming pattern of the private museums of the Rockefeller Family Art Foundation, the Rothschild Family Foundation, the Paul Getty Center Museum of Art... these wealthy families, adopting the family naming method.

Rather than the one that Anna suddenly announced on the stage, at first glance, I thought it was some strange "Detective Cat Museum" of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts.

But it's just a slight flaw.

It's harmless.

Just the $50 billion symbol is enough to shock people.

Insurance valuation, sale price, art valuation.

These three are things in three different fields.

For the Jelena family's collection, the insurance premium is calculated as 0.01% of the common museum exhibits, and the total coverage is about 23 billion euros, because they only want to protect so much.

Gleze is a city with a very low crime rate, and there are no daily natural disasters.

In addition, it is a private collection on the family's private property, and the staff structure is very simple. It is not a museum where people come and go.

The premium for scale models is actually much lower than that of large museums.

How much is the art worth? 23 billion euros, 50 billion US dollars, or even more.

Unless the money is actually sold, it is completely a mystery and no one knows.

Buyers and sellers are confused.

Like Picasso's paintings, Monet's water lilies. Each of these paintings can easily cost tens of millions of dollars.

For example, "Women of Algiers" is Picasso's most representative painting.

From A to O, I have drawn a total of 15 different versions in my life.

The last one, "The Women of Algiers" (Version O), was sold for US$1.8 million in the past few years. Before Leonardo da Vinci's "Savior Mundi", it briefly held the throne of the world's best art.

And works of the same series.

Anna directly donated two paintings in one go, version B and version E respectively.

Although in theory, the sales market for works in the same series should be the first and last paintings, that is, version A and version O are the most valuable.

If it is a batch of prints, prints with numbers such as 1, 10, 66, 99, 100, 500 will be more valuable, just like serial banknotes.

But this kind of thing is impossible to say.

Picasso's works are everywhere.

However, there are too few representative works of super high-quality products circulating in the art market, so it is impossible to estimate them at all.

If a painting is in the cold, it may fail to sell for 5000 million US dollars. Normally, it will be over 1.5 million. If the market is hot, it will be sold for million.

Even if it is more than 2 million.

It's not impossible.

It all depends on the auction company’s publicity efforts, the location where the auction is held, the number of guests participating in the auction, and their financial resources.

Even the auctioneer's on-the-spot performance and hammer-dropping skills can make a huge difference.

The most experienced head auctioneer at Christie's and Sotheby's has an annual salary of tens of millions. This is why.

Even more difficult to estimate than Picasso is Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci should be the undisputed number one IP in the Western art auction market.

People say that collecting Impressionist paintings is the ID card and admission ticket of the rich. That’s because Leonardo da Vinci is too expensive.

Even ordinary rich people cannot afford to play Leonardo da Vinci.

Monet frequently traded hundreds of pieces in the market.

There should be only seven or eight of Leonardo da Vinci's private collections that have clear records, can be examined, and can be sold, and none of them can be valued.

Among them is the "Wings of Muse" in Anna's hand.

Must be honest.

Sketching is actually not very valuable.

For tens of thousands of dollars, the best sketch painters you can imagine, including Menzel, Matisse and even Dürer, can be purchased.

But regardless of the technique, as long as the name becomes Leonardo da Vinci, it's a different story.

It is different from those Wenwan walnuts that cost tens of thousands each and bracelets that cost hundreds of thousands each, which are likely to be priceless but not marketable.

Da Vinci's reputation is too great, and his stock is too little.

Therefore, historically there has always been a market but no price, a pure seller's market.

It’s hard to say whether you’ll be able to encounter a transaction even once in five to ten years.

One painting, one market.

Judging from the fact that Leonardo da Vinci's bear head sketch sold for 2000 million pounds in 5000, this small-sized "Wings of the Muse" should be able to sell for million pounds or more.

How much can you walk?

God knows.

A Picasso worth tens of millions is already an exaggeration.

Da Vinci can easily give you hundreds of millions.

5000万英镑是它，1亿5000万是它，2亿5000万还是它。

This is what the auction world calls a work that can "create miracles."

It's all about throwing dice.

It is possible to throw out any number of outrageous numbers.

Although the size, category, and painting method are all much worse than "Savior of the World".

However, the question is whether "Salvator Mundi" was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, or was it installed by the British Museum forcibly out of conscience to make money.

Critics in the academic field continue to criticize it to this day.

"Wings of the Muse" is a serious work that has been recorded in the literature by the Milan School without controversy.

Normally, there is a 70% chance that the transaction price will be in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

But it can go up to 100 million, 200 million, 300 million, or 500 million if the right time, place and people are available on one day.

It’s not a fantasy either.

Collectors may be reluctant to buy, but politicians are different.

Saudi Arabia is willing to spend one trillion US dollars to build a desert line city, and there are rumors that it wants to sign Mbappe for one billion US dollars.

Then when someone needs to use sports and art strategies to attract investment from all over the world, or when Abu Dhabi wants to compete with Dubai for international tourists.

What if someone is willing to create an international news hot spot, spend one billion to buy an authentic Leonardo da Vinci, take it home and hang it in their own national museum?

It's not that the big dog owners are stupid and don't know it's not worth the money.

But what they follow is not the business logic of calculating how much money they can make. What they follow is political logic, which is about international influence.

Political logic does not care about small monetary gains and losses.

If Anna wanted to sell off the property and raise funds within a month when she bought "Oil Painting" from Kruger Bank, she would have to do it hard.

So let’s not talk about $50 billion.

It’s hard to say whether anyone can eat 15 billion.

With so many collections in the short term, few collectors can buy them with cash, and they can only depreciate significantly. If something worth ten million is sold for five million, if no one wants it, it will be sold for three million.

The billion-dollar auction in New York of the artwork left by Bill Gates' partner Paul is almost the biggest event that a top modern art auction company can handle after a year-long announcement.

To put it bluntly.

If Miss Elena throws out all the 14,000 paintings in her hand in a short period of time.

Money no longer matters.

It is possible that the entire prosperous art trading market will be directly smashed or collapsed.

And if the timeline is very long, each item will be released at a high price point.

$50 billion is no exaggeration at all.

The headline of the "Economics Observer" states that it is US$50 billion, not more. This is a good indication that they are a long-established economic publication that is responsible to its readers.

If it is the "Moon Newspaper" that is not right in its words, or it is simply a marketing account for clickbait, and then add an extra zero at the end, it is very possible.

"I said I'm here to be the mascot."

Anna returned the favor to the audience in a graceful manner, "I have finished saying what the mascot should say and doing what the mascot should do."

"So, now let me give up the podium to the real artist, Mr. Cao Xuan. Please applaud him."

An incredibly rich art collection.

It is both a gift and a burden and a constraint.

This week, she has been worried about whether she will live up to the name Elena and let the efforts and collections of her ancestors go to waste. She is worried about gains and losses.

After that phone call.

Miss Elena has already made up her mind.

When she announced her decision to donate the family's main art collection, Anna felt a little guilty, but more of a sense of relief.

She chose to be herself rather than a slave to wealth.

She crowned herself.

From now on.

Butterflies break free from spider webs.

Anna,

Spread your wings and fly.

"Mr. Sloth, I don't know if you are looking at your phone right now, but I... seem to understand how to draw the queenly spirit in "The Blazing World"."

Gu Weijing felt that Miss Elena on the screen looked like the green goddess in the temple when she smiled.

As she walked off stage.

Even the air seemed to have to make way for her dazzling brilliance.

It was as if she had not just donated an empire, but gained an entire empire of subjects.

Gu Weijing loves Miss Shengzi very much.

But at this moment, he really felt that he was conquered by Miss Elena.

It's not the kind of conquest that men love and women love.

It's more like the wind conquering a cloud or the sea conquering a drop of rain. They were instantly captured by the unrivaled powerful aura.

"Wonderful! That's great, Miss Anna, you are so wonderful!"

There were also people in the front row who were conquered by Anna.

Standing up and applauding loudly, many people’s first reaction was Hunter Bull. They felt something was wrong when they heard the sound and immediately turned their heads to look.

I found that it turned out to be——

Larry Gagosian.

Gagosian's tall figure was like a standing mountain. He applauded desperately, and his red face seemed to have written all over his broad face, "It is the honor of my life to witness your speech." "Witness today. Seeing such a scene made my humble life infinitely sublime."

Oh shit,

This cunning old bastard was just there sharing the same hatred with the enemy, but now he jumped off the ship and surrendered without saying a word or even saying hello.

The CDX gallerist scolded Gagosian in his mind and slapped Gagosian wildly.

One side stood up without hesitation and began to applaud and cheer.

"I am here to announce that Gagosian Gallery will donate US$2000 million to your family museum. At the same time, I will discuss with Hirst to create a work specifically for your museum, and Gagosian will also donate part of its collection. Coming out is a piece of my heart.”

Gagosian turned to look at the media area and said loudly.

He is a person who started from the bottom and knows what kind of occasions and how to express himself.

"Larry, you're playing too hard."

Ms. Leeson, who was also applauding, gave a wry smile.

Gao Guxuan is the richest among them and has the largest gallery.

Regardless of how much Hirst's paintings are worth, the $2000 million alone is enough to cover the entire year's operating expenses for a Rome branch of Lisson Gallery.

"We lost. If we lose, we have to accept reality. They took out billions. What can I do?"

Gagosian can afford to put it down.

"There's nothing to say. I'm actually convinced that I lost."

(End of this chapter)