gifted collector

Chapter 124 Monet's Water Lilies
His eyes were red, Fang Ming stood in front of Ning Yuan's studio, hesitating whether he should go in or not.

It was already past nine o'clock in the morning. If it was in other places, it would have been lively by this time. After all, Ningdong City is a modern big city with a very fast pace of life. Don't say it is past nine o'clock, even if it is six It was already lively at [-]:[-] or even earlier, but Ningde Road was very quiet at this time, and none of the studios on both sides were open for business.

"Could it be that art people are night owls and go to bed late, so they don't come to shop so early in the morning?"

Of course, Fang Ming didn't come here to hang out when he was full.In order to study whether the pixiu ability in his right hand only responds to wet oil paintings, he asked Zheng Ru to bring him here yesterday, and met Ning Yuan. Through the oil paintings in Ning Yuan's studio, he found that his guess was correct. When faced with Western oil paintings, his own abilities are quite useless and useless.

The matter has already come to an end here, although Fang Ming hopes that his pixiu ability can block people from killing Buddhas, and in the future he can go abroad to stir up trouble and pick up some art treasures from other countries, but since it doesn't work, then Don't worry about it, after all, Pixiu is always at the disadvantage when facing antiques, he is already content.

During this period, Ning Yuan asked to be a mannequin for a day, of course Fang Ming didn't want to, and when he was forced to "desperate", he offered to see her naked body, but he didn't expect Ning Yuan to agree.Even at this level, Fang Ming still found an excuse to say that he is very busy recently, so he will make an appointment another day.

However, Ning Yuan actually said that she had a work by Monet, the founder of the Impressionist School, in her hand. This immediately attracted him like a huge magnet, but Ning Yuan also had a condition, that is, to give her a piece of work today. Mannequins of the day.

After going back yesterday, Fang Ming thought for a whole night, and after spending another night of insomnia, he finally decided to come here. There was no way, Monet's paintings were so attractive.

"Forget it, let's treat it as my sacrifice for art."

Fang Ming gritted his teeth, opened the door and walked in. As soon as he entered, he saw a tall and burly security guard.

"Hi, my name is Fang Ming, and I'm here to see Miss Ning Yuan."

"Mr. Fang, hello, you and Zheng Ru came here yesterday. I met you. Miss Ning Yuan said that if you come, go directly to the basement to find her."

Fang Ming nodded, and walked to the basement familiarly. Ning Yuan seemed to have stayed in the basement all night last night.

As soon as he walked into the basement, he happened to see Ning Yuan with a tired face, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Oh, you're here? I thought you weren't coming."

Fang Ming shook his head and said honestly:
"Oh, after hesitating for a long time, I finally decided to come."

He took out a bottle of water from the refrigerator next to him and handed it to Fang Ming. Ning Yuan unscrewed the bottle himself, gulped down half of the bottle before saying, "Another day, I painted all night last night, and there aren't many now." Spirit."

"Row."

Ning Yuan's eyes almost couldn't be opened, Fang Ming naturally knew what she said was the truth.

"Come with me."

Ning Yuan beckoned, turned around and walked forward.

"Oh? What are you doing?"

Fang Ming was at a loss, thinking to himself that he would stop painting?Then he went back to sleep and felt that he didn't sleep well last night.But since Ning Yuan had already spoken, it was not good for him to leave like this, so he followed.

Following Ning Yuan, Fang Ming walked to a corner of the basement.

Good guy!
Fang Ming saw a huge safe embedded in the wall. Just looking at the matte surface and the huge screen, he knew that it was not a simple thing.

"Just ordering this safe cost me several million."

While talking, Ning Yuan stretched out his hand to the safe, Fang Ming turned around quickly when he saw it, no matter how the safe was opened, he didn't want to see it.

After a while, after a slight "click", Ning Yuan's voice came: "This is Monet's painting, take a look, this is what I promised you yesterday."

Turning around, Fang Ming saw a cylinder in Ning Yuan's hand, and knew that it should be Monet's painting, no wonder it was put in such a safe.

"If that's the case, then I'm welcome."

At first, I thought that Ning Yuan would not show Monet to himself because he didn't have the energy to paint himself today, but now that Ning Yuan let him see, how could Fang Ming be polite?He came here today just to look at this painting. You must know that this is the last chance for him to verify Pixiu—if Pixiu doesn’t even respond to Monet’s painting, it will prove that his previous deduction is correct. It only responds to wet or wet oil paintings.

Together with Ning Yuan, they walked to the center of the studio, where there was a huge table, and when the light was turned on, a snow-white light immediately shone down, and the entire table was bright, showing every detail.

The two of them cleaned up the table first, and then spread a special canvas. Monet's paintings are now rare items. This is a studio, and there are paints everywhere. If you do, you will regret it too much, and you will even want to commit suicide.

After completing the preparations, Ning Yuan opened the cylinder, carefully took out a painting from inside, and then gently spread it on the table.

Fang Ming stared closely at Ning Yuan's hand, his heart jumped to his throat, and then started to jump up violently, he was very excited at this moment.

Ning Yuan's movements are like the slow motion that is common in movies, moving bit by bit, it may only take a few tens of seconds to open the whole painting, when a small painting about the size of one square meter is fully presented In front of his eyes, Fang Ming felt as if a year had passed.

"Water lilies?"

Fang Ming blinked his eyes vigorously, not believing what he saw at all.When Ning Yuan said yesterday that she had a painting by Monet hidden in her hand, he thought it was an unimportant painting, but he didn't expect it to be such an important one.

Last night, all the backs of Monet's water lily paintings that I checked on the Internet suddenly emerged.

As the most important writer of the Impressionist School, Monet's most important work in his later years, that is, after his painting skills have fully matured, is Water Lilies.

At the end of 1890, Monet's economic conditions improved a lot. He bought the house he rented and got a yard. In 1892, he built a greenhouse to grow flowers and plants. A piece of land not far from his home draws water from the Ept River near the village of Giverny into a pond in his yard to build a "water garden".

In 1900, Monet exhibited his "Water Lilies" for the first time in the gallery of Durang-Ruel, a series of 13 paintings.The main depiction is the looming water lilies, which are connected together on the water surface. There is also a Japanese-style arch bridge on the painting, and the background is a piece of green... Each picture has a different style.

However, after this exhibition, Monet ushered in the biggest disaster in his life. First, his second wife died, and then in 1912 he was diagnosed with degenerative cataract in his right eye.

In 1914, Monet built his third studio and set up a huge canvas with a height of 183 cm and a length of 366 cm. It took him 12 years for this water lily. However, This time he did not express water lilies in a "serial" way, but in a continuous way in a picture, so when this water lily was installed in a rotunda of the Musée d'Orangely in Paris On the four walls, the boundless pool water and water lilies are completely presented, which is amazing.

Therefore, Monet's water lilies are very famous.

"Yes, of course, the one in front of me is not a finished product, or it can be said to be a 'waste product'. It is a draft in the process of Monet's painting of water lilies. It only cost me 100 francs at the time, and finally, through a series of research, I found that it was Monet’s work.”

"Its artistic value lies in its ability to present the entire process of conception with Monet, and at this time he has already mastered his skills, so even if he just draws casually, it is still a great art treasure."

"Ah, you are also picking up the leak."

Fang Ming cried out in a low voice, he bought Monet's painting for 100 francs, which is a big mistake.

A rare smile appeared on Ning Yuan's face, he nodded, and said, "You are right, you are just a leak picker. Zheng Ru told me that you are an antique dealer, and you are a master picker."

"Can I touch it?"

Fang Ming looked at Ning Yuan nervously. He knew that his request was too much, and worried that she would not agree.

"No problem. It's an oil painting, not that fragile."

Ning Yuan nodded, handed Fang Ming a cloth to wipe his hands clean, and then took a step back to make room.

Fang Ming walked over, stood where Ning Yuan was standing before, took a deep breath, calmed down, and stretched out his hand to lightly put it on a corner of the oil paint.

"what!"

As soon as Fang Ming's hand came into contact with the painting, he immediately felt a very thin but strong electric current piercing into his finger, and then Pixiu suddenly emerged and swallowed the incoming "current" "Swallow it.

This scene happened so fast, Fang Ming was completely unprepared, so he yelled out all at once.

"What's wrong with you?"

Ning Yuan frowned, she didn't understand what Fang Ming would scream.

After gathering his composure, Fang Ming said, "It's nothing. I used a little force just now, and I'm worried that it might be crushed."

(End of this chapter)