Qin Haodong said: "Of course it is true, Manager Tian, ​​I have no need to joke with you."

Tian Ye realized that he was a little gaffe, and said quickly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, I was so shocked, please forgive me."

"It doesn't matter, is it convenient for you to come over and give me a test now?"

"No problem, now I will take the appraiser over, please wait a moment."

Tian Ye hung up the phone and immediately called for appraiser Zhang Chaohui.

As the largest auction house on Hong Kong Island, he has more than a dozen appraisers here, and Zhang Chaohui is the top one, and his best is the appraisal of ancient European paintings.

"What's the matter with the manager? I'm leaving get off work soon, aren't you asking me to work overtime?"

A young man in his thirties walked in. He was Zhang Chaohui.He has a very good relationship with Tian Ye on weekdays, so he is not polite.

Tian Ye said, "The guy who brought you to eat comes with me. There is an important collection that you need to appraise."

Zhang Chaohui said: "Can't you wait for tomorrow? I finally got an appointment with a beautiful girl today."

"Of course you can't wait." Tian Ye pulled him up and walked outside, saying as he walked, "The person who is looking for us to identify is the distinguished guest of the old man. We must be careful."

The two got into the car and drove in the direction of Li's villa.

"These rich people really don't care about the life and death of our part-time workers." Zhang Chaohui asked after sitting in the seat of the co-pilot and venting his dissatisfaction, "What are you going to identify this time?"

"Picasso's painting."

"what?"

Zhang Chaohui, who was still lazy, suddenly sat up straight.Then he lay down like a discouraged ball, and said, "How is this possible? Who would sell Picasso's paintings now? I guess it must be this rich man with little head that was deceived by others. If you make a picture, you will say it was painted by Picasso..."

It is not surprising that he said this. As the chief appraiser of the auction house, he has seen many wealthy people be deceived by those scammers in these years, spent a lot of money, and bought a lot of fake goods.

Tian Ye said: "I don't know whether it's true or not, so I brought you here. I told you that this is a VIP that the old man particularly likes. You must be careful when you speak, and you must be respectful."

As a professional manager, Tian Ye still has his qualities, and did not reveal Qin Haodong's identity.Soon they arrived at Li's villa, led by Zhang Tieniu to Qin Haodong's room.

Knowing that a guest was coming, Nalan Wushuang went to the room inside to practice, and he was the only one in the room.

"Boss, I brought the guests."

After Zhang Tieniu said, standing respectfully behind Qin Haodong

Tian Ye said, "Mr. Qin, this is Zhang Chaohui, the chief auctioneer of our auction house. He is particularly good at the identification of ancient European paintings."

"Two people, please sit down." After Qin Haodong let the two people sit down, he reached out and took a picture on the table, which was the nude sketch that Nalan Wushuang had just seen.

"Mr. Zhang, can you help me identify whether this painting is a genuine Picasso."

After speaking, he sent the nude sketch to Zhang Chaohui.

Since the moment he saw Qin Haodong, Zhang Chaohui has been contemptuous, thinking that this must be the rich second generation who was deceived by others. In his opinion, Qin Haodong’s painting is absolutely impossible to be genuine.

However, as a professional appraiser, he still has the basic qualities, with a very serious expression, took out a white glove from his pocket and put it on his hand, took Qin Haodong's painting, and then took out a magnifying glass to examine it.

At first Zhang Chaohui didn't care too much, but when he saw the painting, his whole person immediately became serious.

He didn't check what was drawn on the painting first, but took a look at the sketch paper and fold it gently with his hands.Feel the hardness and flexibility of the paper. This is the procedure that an excellent appraiser should follow when appraisal.

After checking the material of the sketch paper, Zhang Chaohui's expression became more solemn. He had already determined that the sketch paper he was holding was produced in Europe in the 1940s and 50s. He believed that this would definitely not fool his eyes.

Now he can be sure that even if these sketches are not Picasso's works, they were imitated in the last century. From this point of view, they are considered ancient paintings.

Tian Ye watched by the side, his expression also became solemn.He has worked with Zhang Zhaohui for many years, and he has already seen some clues from the expressions of his friends. Now it seems that the painting Qin Haodong took out is absolutely extraordinary. Is it really Picasso's handwriting?

"Jacqueline, this is Jacqueline!"

When Zhang Chaohui turned his gaze to the naked woman on the picture scroll, he immediately let out a scream, attracting everyone's eyes.

Nalan Wushuang had no intention of cultivating when she heard the movement outside. She came to the door to eavesdrop. She also wanted to see whether these ancient European paintings by Qin Haodong could still be fake.

Standing behind Qin Haodong, Zhang Tieniu couldn't help but curl his lips. These Hong Kong Islanders were really ignorant.Isn't it just a bare-ass woman?What's all the fuss about.

Now you can find a lot of small movies on the Internet. Haven't they seen them?

Zhang Tieniu is a layman, but Tian Ye still knows a little bit. After hearing this name, he immediately realized that the woman in the painting was Picasso's last wife.

Picasso had countless women throughout his life, and Jacqueline was his last wife.During the 8 years that the two people were together, although this old man had always had a mistress, Jacqueline accepted this, and the two have been hand in hand through the last days of Picasso's life.

Jacqueline created a warm world in his later years for Picasso, and Picasso often found inspiration from her.Painted a lot of portraits for her.

Thirteen years after Picasso's death, Jacqueline committed suicide. After her death, Picasso's drawings and oil paintings for her flowed into the auction market, and Picasso's paintings appreciated during that time.

It can be said that it is these paintings related to Jacqueline.Helped Picasso's work to a higher level.

Qin Haodong also didn't know the woman in this painting, and was not interested in any of her. He just wanted to know if there were flaws in these ancient paintings.

"Mr. Zhang Chaohui, has your appraisal result come out?"

Zhang Chaohui, who was obsessed with this sketch, came back to his senses.Cautiously put down the painting in his hand, he grabbed Qin Haodong's arm and exclaimed with excitement, "I pledge with my reputation as an appraiser. This painting is absolutely true. It must be Picasso's hand. It is a portrait of his wife.

Dear Mr. Qin, can you tell me how this painting came from?"

A smile appeared on Nalan Wushuang's mouth behind the door, and it seemed that Qin Haodong had succeeded again this time.

Qin Haodong was also very happy, smiled and said, "This is what I just painted."

"Uh..." Zhang Chaohui said with embarrassment on his face."Sorry, Mr. Qin, I was so excited and offended your privacy."

As an excellent appraiser, asking about the source of the collection is a taboo.

Even in the international art market, private transactions are true and false.The origin is always unimportant, and the higher the society, the more attention to personal privacy.

Because of this, in Zhang Chaohui's opinion, Qin Haodong was mocking himself, and he would not realize that this was the truth anyway.

"Nothing." Qin Haodong took three more scrolls and said, "You can help me identify whether these are true or not."

He imitated Picasso's work and drew forty pictures.Among them, there are ten human body sketches, ten children's sketches, ten still life sketches, and ten oil paintings. Take one from each group as a representative and let Zhang Chaohui identify it.

Zhang Chaohui first showed a look of astonishment. Now every one of Picasso's works is of great value. It would be great to have the privilege of collecting one, but Qin Haodong did not expect that Qin Haodong would come up with four at once.

He took the three paintings excitedly and began to appraise them seriously.

Tian Ye also showed a look of consternation.Yesterday Qin Haodong said that he had some Picasso paintings, but he didn't expect to have some, not one.

If he knew that there were 36 such paintings in Qin Haodong's drawer, he would not know if his eyeballs would fall to the ground.

Zhang Chaohui made the assessment very carefully, and it took him ten minutes to raise his head.With a look of excitement, he said: "Mr. Qin, you are really amazing. I can assure you that these paintings are the authentic works of Mr. Picasso, and they are very well preserved. There is almost no flaw."

Behind the door, Nalan Wushuang almost didn't laugh out loud, saying that these paintings had just been freshly released, and they hadn't added up for a few hours. They were naturally well preserved.

After confirming that he did not leave any flaws, Qin Haodong was also relieved.Said to the two people in Tian Ye: "Two people, I am not very good at art. Can you help me estimate how much these paintings are worth?"

Tian Ye said: "There is no specific price for the artwork, but only estimates. About 5 years ago, 7 Picasso sketch albums appeared at an auction, and the price was 80,000 US dollars.

Although your paintings are a little bit less, only 4, but they are better than the complete range, covering all the types of Picasso paintings. If you make a picture album, and take the factors of the rise of art in these years into account, the value should be about 1 Between ten thousand dollars and 150,000 dollars."

"So much money?"

Qin Haodong was taken aback by this number. Although he knew that Picasso was very famous, he did not expect his paintings to be so valuable.

"of course."

Zhang Zhaohui took the topic and said: "Picasso is a true artistic genius. The second century belongs to him. No artist can be known as Picasso's changeable style.

Although he is a prolific painter, he has created more than 60,000 works in his lifetime, but compared with the number of people in the world, this number is too small.

When Picasso was alive.His tens of thousands of works have already been bought by others, and there are basically no works in circulation on the market.

It is precisely because of this that created the value of Picasso's paintings."