Chapter 328 Famous Paintings
“Because of his wife Xiao Qiong’s relationship, Jiang Zhaohe and his family were able to return to Peking in the early stages of victory. However, his sister Jiang Wanqi was an ordinary bank employee. When she reunited with her family, she had already It was the end of summer in 1946. "
"After eight years of the Anti-Japanese War and eight years of Jiang Wanqi's escape, among the four children, only Qichun's eldest son was still alive. When he returned home, he was only thin. There is only one skeleton left, Dirty and infected with an infectious disease."
"The boy in "Returning Home" is a portrayal of the painter's nephew when he returned, deeply expressing Jiang Zhaohe's compassion, sympathy and compassion. ,close Heart of love."
"Hunger and cold force me to wander, when will I return home? Behind "Returning Home" are the voices of millions of refugees, which is a very painful history of China."
"He is a great painter, and his status should be above that of Xu Beihong." Zhou Zhi said softly.
“Xu Beihong had a huge influence on him, which can be seen from his painting style.” Fei Guan said: “However, Xu Beihong’s realism has a strong idealistic color, while Jiang Zhaohe’s realism, Just full It’s a realist color.”
“Traditional Chinese pursues tranquility and subtlety, with hidden charm. Until Xu Beihong began to make breakthroughs and improvements, the only works with realistic themes were “Ba People Drawing Water” and “Ba People Drawing Water”. "The Poor Woman of Ba", and, of course, the representative work "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain" written in support of the Anti-Japanese War."
"It was only with Jiang Zhaohe that the realistic character paintings entered a mature stage, from leaders to leaders. Workers, from old intellectuals to rural children, are all vivid images in the painter's paintings."
"We believe that his painting style began with this painting "Second Brother Leaving Sichuan". >
"This is a work created in 1938?" Zhou Zhi asked: "I left Sichuan to organize the army. I remember it was in August of 37 years."
"Yes, after that there were three million Sichuan disciples, Heading to the battlefield.”
The picture shows the Sichuan army’s departure, with family members gathered around to see them off, reluctant to leave.
The background of the picture is streets and countless figures starting out. The theme is Jiang Zhaohe's consistent style - group portraits.
The second brother of the Sichuan Army wore a British-style steel helmet, a cloth military uniform, an armed belt, a quilt bag on his back, a long gun on his shoulder, leggings, and straw sandals.
He was described as thin, and his face looked like he was in a hurry to start, but a little girl wearing patched clothes in front of him eagerly grabbed the kettle strap. Although the second brother was anxious, he couldn't bear to blame him, so he had to say hello to the adults next to him. .
There were two old people among the adults. The old woman was obviously sad and couldn't bear to see her son go to the battlefield. She turned her back to the second brother and buried her old head on her wife's shoulder.
The old man also had a look of reluctance, but he waved to his son and told him to leave quickly.
Beside the old man was his sister-in-law. She bent forward as if she wanted to pick up the girl who was holding her uncle's water bottle bag. However, she was stopped by a man beside her, who meant to ask her daughter and brother to stay longer. a while.
This is a painting with the theme of sacrificing a small family and rushing to the national disaster. It is a microcosm of the families of the three million children of the Sichuan Army at that time. Regardless of the subject matter, techniques, expressions, body shapes, postures, and character relationships, they are all presented realistically and delicately, and it touches Zhou Zhi's heart at once.
"Great work." Zhou Zhi murmured: "I want it, how much does it cost?"
Another advantage of buying things in Gongmei Mall now is that the price is clearly marked.
The price is estimated by experts before, reviewed and approved by the committee, and then written into a label. After that, any salesperson can sell it.
Whether you are raising your goods to the sky or lowering them to the mud, Gongmei will neither raise nor lower the price, and there is no such thing as looking at what others will order.
So even though Zhou Zhi was so shocked by these two paintings that he described them as "great", Manager Fei still flipped through the labels: "The style of "The Return of the Native" is mature, the painting skills are exquisite, and the expressions and inner feelings of the characters are profoundly portrayed. , has been exhibited many times, and has been included in many published albums. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece with an orderly inheritance, so the price given by the mall is... 50,000."
"As for "Second Brother Leaving Sichuan," we collected it from the folk. It belongs to the artist's formative period of his style. His brushwork is a little lacking, and he has never been famous before. Although it is the subject of a major historical event, it is still slightly inferior to "Return to the Native Place." , so shopping malls are most The final selling price was... 30,000 yuan. "That's a bit excessive." Zhou Zhi pointed to a picture of Qiu Ying's lady on the wall: "That one is only 100,000 yuan."
< br>"That's US dollars." Manager Fei said calmly.
“The exchange rate between U.S. dollars and RMB is not one to one?”
“Haha... If you can get it one to one, that’s fine too.”
"These two paintings are not likely to appreciate in value. You have been holding Gongmei in your hands for a long time, right?" Zhou Zhi hesitated: "They are not festive themes. Can't they be lowered?"
"There are also festive themes." Manager Fei smiled and said: "The work of Jiang Zhaohe's teacher Xu Beihong, "Jiuzhou has nothing to do and is happy to work", is festive enough, do you want it?"
"What?" Zhou My heart was pounding. Although this painting is not as well-known as Xu Beihong's "Eight Horses", I also knew it: "How about taking a look at the painting?"
"You can look at it, but you can't negotiate the price." Fei Guan took out He followed the routine of stagnating state-owned enterprises: "I'll say the ugly thing first. Three hundred and eighty thousand, not a penny less."
"I'll go..." Zhou Zhi even moved his eyebrows with excitement. .
The reason why this painting impressed him was because of the news of that year.
The person in charge of the auction house in the news excitedly claimed that although the painting was sold for 266.8 million, it was not surprising at all.
Because fifteen years ago, this work set the highest price at an art auction at that time, 1.96 million.
It was number one in the country at that time, but it has increased one hundred and thirty-six times in fifteen years.
Then the person in charge also mentioned: This is the result of China’s auction market integrating with international standards. It coincides with the tenth anniversary of the country’s accession to the WTO. Compared with the first international auction, the total transaction volume was 2 million yuan. The desolate situation shows that the country today is indeed rich and powerful, and the people are indeed rich.
At that time, Zhou Zhi was still watching TV and sneering, but now he had a key clue.
Joining the WTO was in 2001, the tenth anniversary was in 2011, and the previous fifteen years were in 1996.
In other words, if Gongmei's painting is auctioned in four years, it will be worth 1.9 million, and if it is auctioned in 20 years, it will be worth 230 million, plus commission of 266.8 million!
And now, only 380,000 are needed!
You can’t buy it and suffer a loss, but you can’t buy it and you can’t be fooled!
Human psychology is very strange. It stands to reason that there are quite a lot of good things in Zhou Zhi's collection. However, until now, Zhou Zhi has never had the pleasure of "picking up missing items".
First of all, those things are different from modern calligraphy and painting. Zhou Zhi has no intention of selling many of them, so no matter how much they can be sold in future generations, it has nothing to do with him.
The second thing is that those things come too "easily". Manzhou is almost a cultural desert. There are many places where you can find things from your hometown at scrap stations and in the homes of residents in various towns and villages. As long as Zhou Zhi asks, there is no objection. For sale.
Modern and modern calligraphy and painting are not too important to thoughtfulness. These things, like the stamps he flipped before, are "commodities" that he uses to cash in and earn the price difference, and flip his beloved items.
So until now, Zhou Zhi has truly experienced the fun for the first time, and he can't help but feel happy.
(End of this chapter)