Chapter 429 Is this auction targeted?

Author: Tianjie Xiaofeng

Chapter 429 Is this auction targeted?

After returning to the villa, Zhu Yu calmed down and planned to pick out some things in the space and put them out.

After all, he doesn't think it's good if he only buys but doesn't sell.

Having been spending money these days, Zhu Yu felt that it was necessary to exchange some unnecessary collection items for money, or exchange them for suitable Chinese cultural relics, which would also be a good idea.

In the past, every time he went out, he made money, so he didn't feel that the large amount of cash going out during this period made Zhu Yu feel that he had to clear up some space.

He didn't plan to sell the gold or anything like that. He kept it as hard currency at least.

Zhu Yu had no intention of getting rid of the firearms and weapons obtained from the World War II warehouse. Firstly, they were not valuable, and secondly, they could not be prepared and would be used at any time.

After rummaging through the space for a while, Zhu Yu took out an oil painting.

Monet's.

He took out another painting. Picasso's.

He has many such paintings, as well as those by other painters.

But Zhu Yu didn't plan to take them all out - after all, things are rare and valuable.

He had previously checked that Monet's paintings were sold at auctions for more than 10 million US dollars, and the most expensive ones were nearly 100 million US dollars.

And there are more than one Picasso paintings worth over 100 million yuan.

So, I think these two paintings should be able to exchange for the tiger eating man.

After all, Chinese bronzes are not highly sought after abroad.

Some of the items that were auctioned at high prices were obviously the result of the auction or the organizer asking someone to raise the price in order to prey on those in China who were eager to take the cultural relics back to China.

On the contrary, paintings by world-renowned painters like Picasso and Monet are more popular in the international auction world.

After deciding to send these two paintings for auction, Zhu Yu asked Cathy to find someone to come over and make exquisite packaging boxes specially for the two paintings.

"Mr. Zhu, are you sure you want to send these two paintings to the auction? Why not hang them in the villa? This villa lacks such world-class paintings that can exaggerate the artistic atmosphere!"

Cathy became a little uneasy when she learned the author of the paintings Zhu Yu was going to auction. She tried her best to persuade Zhu Yu to keep these two paintings:

"You are no longer a nobody. With the assets you have now, you can become one of the first-tier rich in New York. So why not increase your wealth in this way?"

"I don't think it's necessary." Zhu Yu shook his head and said, "Think about it, if you have such a painting at home, you have to worry about it being stolen and robbed from time to time - the previous gold incident is an example.

Therefore, I still don’t hang these things at home. But I can still find similar works when needed.”

What Zhu Yu said made sense, so Cathy stopped trying to persuade her.

Zhu Yu called Robert and told him the matter.

"Are you telling the truth? Have you had it authenticated by someone? Are they really works by Monet and Picasso? Just wait for me - I'll be here soon!"

After hearing Zhu Yu's words, Robert was speechless.

Half an hour later, Robert brought a middle-aged man wearing glasses to Zhu Yu's villa.

"This is our cooperative appraiser Blunt." Robert introduced to Zhu Yu, "He is good at appraising paintings by famous European artists, especially Picasso's works."

Zhu Yu turned his head and signaled, and then Cathy, who brought the tea, directed the two servants to bring up the two beautifully packaged boxes.

"Be careful." Cathy kept telling her along the way. She knew the value of these two paintings.

Zhu Yu personally opened the box of one of the paintings, which was a Picasso painting.

"The name of the painting is "Eye of War."" Zhu Yu introduced, "It looks very abstract."

When Zhu Yu took out the painting, Blunt had already taken out his gloves and put them on, then took out a magnifying glass and looked at the signature of the painting carefully.

After looking at it for a while, I started to observe the entire painting.

This painting is not very big, less than one meter long and wide.

Robert watched Blunt's movements nervously, but whispered to Zhu Yu:

"Where did you get this good thing? Originally, I thought that this auction of Donald's family might use a royal jewel of the medieval German Empire as the bet, but now it seems that I am afraid that your two paintings will compete for the first place.

One."

"Are you sure this is true?" Zhu Yu asked.

"Brunt has rarely been so cautious and took such a long time to appraise paintings. I guess he is taking the opportunity of appraisal to appreciate the paintings carefully——

After all, once this kind of painting is taken away, there is a 90% chance that it will be locked in a safe or entered into a private collection room, never to see the light of day again."

He turned to look at Zhu Yu:

"Why are you willing to put such a valuable painting up for auction?"

"Expensive?" Zhu Yu smiled, "In your opinion, they are expensive. In my opinion, these two paintings are not worth that bronze."

"It's different, right?" Robert obviously disagreed with this view, "Each one has its own excellence. Besides, the bronze seems to be from two or three thousand years ago, but this painting represents the pinnacle of European art!"

"There is no comparison." Zhu Yu shook his head, "I'm not going to argue with you. As everyone says, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Everyone's recognition of value is different."

Seeing that Zhu Yu didn't want to talk about this topic with him, Robert stopped talking.

But in fact, he was very happy. Zhu Yu could provide such excellent auction items, so as a recommender, he would naturally have a benefit.

After this thing is photographed, his commission will naturally be indispensable.

After a while, Blunt stood up straight.

He did not speak immediately, but pointed to another packaging box and asked:

"Where's that box? Whose work is it?"

"Monet's." Cathy was watching the whole process, and she was also very anxious at the moment.

Although Zhu Yu had previously said who painted these two works, Cathy was not sure whether this was true.

"Can you open it and take a look?"

It can be seen that Blunt's attitude is now more cautious and much more polite than when he first came in.

Instead of asking anyone to open the box, Cathy asked:

"Mr. Blount, can you tell me how you feel about the previous painting?"

Blunt didn't expect Cathy's question to be so implicit, but he understood what it meant and said directly:

"This is indeed Picasso's work, it is authentic. And this is Mr. Picasso's work at his peak, but I don't know why it was not famous at all before..."

"Then please look at this Monet work!"

Cathy got the answer she wanted, suppressed her ecstasy, and opened another box.

She watched Blunt's movements carefully, fearing that he would accidentally smear or destroy the painting.

"Where did you get these two paintings?" Robert no longer had any doubts at this moment, and asked Zhu Yu curiously, "Did you dig up a rich man's treasure room in Europe?"

"Almost." Zhu Yu said vaguely, "I got it accidentally."

He couldn't tell anyone about finding a treasure worth ten thousand words. Even if others guessed it, he didn't intend to admit it.

"You are so lucky! Don't others call you good luck boy!"

Robert has really watched Zhu Yu's rise from the beginning. He has watched Zhu Yu step by step from a net worth of tens of thousands to the billionaire he is now.

This speed is much faster than some Internet upstarts.

And he can still give himself some surprises from time to time.

Zhu Yu owes 40% of the credit for the development and growth of his current organization.

You still have to hold on tightly to your relationship with this person, and you must not relax!

Blunt looked at Monet's paintings much faster. After ten minutes, he raised his head and said:

"This painting is also real. It is very well preserved. I am willing to issue an appraisal certificate."

Zhu Yu nodded, this matter would be beneficial to both parties.

At Robert's suggestion, Zhu Yu gave Blount a $10,000 appraisal fee.

Then, Robert personally sent Zhu Yu to the place where Mac Donald organized the auction.

Pay the deposit and provide the auction items here.

"Do I need to keep these two paintings here?" Zhu Yu asked on the way.

After all, it was a painting worth hundreds of millions of dollars, so he was worried.

"No need. You just need to register it on site and let the appraiser do the appraisal. You can just bring it over on the day of the auction."

"Isn't Mike afraid of others letting loose?"

"Of course I'm not afraid." Robert patiently explained to Zhu Yu, "This is a circle issue. In this circle, everyone wants reputation.

If you gain a bad reputation this time, you may not need to participate in this auction in the future, but this matter will spread to other circles and you will be classified as a dishonest person.
To be continued...