Soul Painter

The filming of Yang Ma's documentary took up Gao Fan's time intermittently for more than half a month.

When the time came to early April, the documentary filming was basically completed.

This time, the chief director of the documentary "Great Masters of the Great Power" is Director Chen, and the director of the episode is Deng Jie. This female director born in the 1980s spent more than half a month with Gao Fan in his studio, recording Gao Fan's work in detail. During the whole process, during the past half month, Gao Fan did not create oil paintings, but sorted out the atlas of 448 people in the Red Mansion that he copied from "The Fragment of the Red Mansion".

This is a 10-meter-long ultra-long scroll, and it is also an interesting attempt to imitate Chinese meticulous painting with Western sketching methods. Since the paintings are all drawn with carbon powder and charcoal brushes, they have already faced difficulties after the painting is completed. The phenomenon of lack of color, fading and smearing, the time Gao Fan spent organizing and preserving this long scroll has exceeded his creation time.

Therefore, Deng Jie did not capture the scene of Gao Fan creating oil paintings. In her camera, Gao Fan seems to be an oriental painter who has inherited meticulous skills and is creating ink paintings, except that he uses pencils.

It will be interesting to wait for the reaction of the audience after this documentary airs.

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at the end of March.

Lawrence has already started preparations for the Christie's auction to be held in Hong Kong in mid-April.

Among Gao Fan's "Mask" group paintings, "Illusion" and "Fool" were acquired in the last Xiangjiang auction.

"Blind" and "Madness" are now in a New York museum.

"Greed" remains at the Gardner Museum.

Gao Fan wanted to keep "Redemption" for himself. This painting painted with magical devil paint has the miraculous effect of rebuilding human sanity, and it will not appear on the auction list.

Therefore, the ones that will be sold at Christie’s Spring Festival auction this time will be “Indifference”, “Rage”, “Eros” and “Despair” among the remaining ten masks.

Among them, the auction of "Despair" will be the highlight. Lawrence has already negotiated with Christie's, and it will be the finale of the auction, alongside a Roy Lichtenstein and a Picasso collected by Christie's.

There are also several other special sessions in this auction, including "Oriental Porcelain", "Oriental Painting" and other oriental art sessions in Hong Kong, as well as "African Art" and "Baroque Sculpture" in Paris, London and New York. There are even some "human science and technology exploration" specials, in which the auction item includes a small bag of lunar soil given to a head of state by NASA.

Although Christie's has always been known for its auctions of art treasures, it is also constantly expanding the fields it involves. After all, making money is its boundary.

As a result of Lawrence's previous discussion with Gao Fan, two to three works were originally released at this year's Christie's. This is a relatively normal number. Too many works flowing to the market will reduce the scarcity of the artist's works, which will instead lead to collectors. Frustration of their expectations will directly reduce the value of the artist.

The number of works that an oil painter releases to the market every year is a kind of tacit understanding between the painter and the market. When the painter dies, this tacit understanding will reach an unshakable peak state. After all, the painter himself has no ability to disrupt the market. up.

But Lawrence still underestimated the market's desire for Gao Fan.

Gao Fan is the fastest-growing oil painter in this century.

Compared with his rapidly rising fame, the number of his paintings circulating in the market is too small.

That is, a pair of "Maggots Swarming" acquired by PACE - PACE has no plan to sell this painting, because it is obvious that Gao Fan's worth is rising rapidly, and it is a better choice to wait and see the market with the painting.

And those few mask paintings that were acquired, at this point in time, they are not going to be put on the market at all.

In addition, there are several sketches that Gao Fan gave as a gift in Boston - each of those sketches was marked at a sky-high price of 300,000 US dollars, but even so, the buyers failed. It seems that every Boston family that owns a sketch, They treat it like a family heirloom.

On the contrary, in China, some people have found Gao Fan's immature art works. They are some sketches. Human authentication can only be circulated in a small area, but a painting has also been sold for a high price of about 100,000 yuan.

Compared with the 500 yuan spent to buy it in Guyao Ancient City, it has increased by 20 times. This can not help but make some young men and women ecstatic. This is simply a lottery ticket that must be won.

But most of these lovers who easily sell the sketches in their hands will regret it, because Gao Fan's prophecy that a painting can be exchanged for a house has not yet come true.

In short, compared to Gao Fan's world-renowned fame, the number of Gao Fan's works circulating in the market is actually zero.

So Christie's negotiated with Lawrence, hoping that Gao Fan could release a few more mask paintings.

This is a game. Once the market is oversatisfied, Gao Fan's worth will be damaged. The market must be kept hungry. Therefore, Lawrence chose the number of four paintings after weighing.

"Actually, what they want most is "Redemption." Lawrence said to Gao Fan.

Regarding the sixteenth painting in the mask group, the expectations in the market are very strange. Countless people are listening to Lawrence's tone, and some people are even willing to trade at a sky-high price of 100 million US dollars in private. Of course, Lawrence will not agree. What both he and Gao Fan care about is not money, but the recognition of the market.

""Redemption" is not for sale." Gao Fan refused again.

"Christie's has an interesting proposal, do you want to hear it?" Lawrence asked.

"How interesting?" Gao Fan became interested. No one could take this painting of "Redemption" from him, so Christie's came up with some tricks.

"They will make an announcement." Lawrence said, "If the previous four mask paintings are auctioned for more than a certain figure, such as 200 million US dollars, then you will take out the fifth mask painting for auction, and this painting will be auctioned." It's Redemption."

"Are you betting against each other, or betting against the entire market?" Gao Fan became more interested, and he calculated, "If "Bostonian" was my current net worth, it would be nearly forty million U.S. dollars, but the number of masks More, and it doesn't have the legend of representing a city, so the value will be lower, right? Even if it is 20 million, plus the uncertain factors in the auction, a mask painting, in theory, can fetch three Tens of millions of dollars?"

"Overestimate, it will be 30 million." Lawrence said, "Counting the scarcity in circulation, this is in line with the market's expectations for you."

"Then the figure of 200 million US dollars is still very sincere, but in order to prevent accidents, let's add a little more, 400 million." Gao Fan said, "Four small goals of US dollars!"

"You mean... yes? But raise the bid?" Lawrence said.

"Yeah, what a fun thing, why didn't you agree." Gao Fan smiled happily. This bet will add a little more fun to this boring auction.

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