Sotheby's global headquarters and auction center venue on York Avenue in Manhattan, New York.
Today's auction is of super large scale and super high standards.
The name of the special is "Lost and Found Art Treasures"
All the items auctioned are rare treasures that have appeared before, but eventually disappeared for various reasons. Now they have been found again and appear before the world.
Of course, except for a few senior executives of the auction house, all the auction items came from one collector.
Everyone else thought that this was a one-of-a-kind auction that Sotheby's had been preparing and collecting for years.
So once this gimmick was released, a global tour exhibition was held in several of the world's richest cities, including Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Dubai, and Mumbai.
It eventually attracted more than a thousand wealthy people from all over the world.
The wealthy people who can enter this venue today are not ordinary wealthy people. It is an invitation-only system. Even if you register on your own, they won’t be accepted. This shows off their status.
Receiving an invitation card from Sotheby's is a symbol of identity and status, and you are recognized as a wealthy person and gentleman worldwide.
I have to say that auction houses understand people's hearts the best. The atmosphere is set here, and the rich are all praised highly. Do you have the nerve to quote a low price when you go to auction?
Low price? Who is this insulting?
Don't think that rich people are necessarily old scoundrels who won't cast their nets until they see the rabbit and won't buy useless antiques.
For truly wealthy people, money is just a number in the bank. What they want is face, status, and the admiration and envy of people in the circle.
Otherwise, why would the prices of those antiques be driven to sky-high prices?
It can’t be that poor people are speculating on it, right?
The poor don’t even have the qualifications to enter this venue, it was created by this group of rich people.
Because the venue was so large, in order to clearly see the bidders, a huge real-time screen was prepared in the middle of the auction site, with two large screens on each side.
As soon as someone holds up a sign, the camera will immediately focus on that person so that everyone can see them.
There are private rooms in the central conference hall of Sotheby's auction house headquarters. Those who can enter the rooms are all top-tier wealthy people in the world.
The rich people who can make it onto the Forbes rich list are not real rich people. They are all fake rich people who are pushed to the front to attract the attention of ordinary people.
The real rich people are all in the private rooms at this time, and it is difficult for outsiders to see their true faces.
And among the people sitting in one of the private rooms at Sotheby's headquarters today are Lin Sanqi and Yin Lianyi.
At this time, the auction site was filled with thunderous applause. The auctioneer, dressed in a handsome tuxedo, was excitedly congratulating someone in one direction.
In the private room, Yin Lianyi was excitedly pinching Lin Sanqi while covering her mouth tightly:
"Thirteen o'clock, Van Gogh's 'Painter on his Way to Work' just sold for $210 million. My god, a drawing that looks like a child's doodle is actually worth so much? Over 1 billion RMB."
Lin Sanqi slapped Yin Lianyi's hand away, pulled open her clothes and took a look. Her waist was already covered with bruises.
Every time an antique was sold, Yin Lianyi would pinch him excitedly. There were 20 items in total for auction today, so wouldn't he be covered in bruises?
"Yin Bitch, calm down. We've already earned 200 billion. What's this little money worth?"
"What's that? The 200 billion yuan in the country is under supervision, and we can't spend it casually. The US dollars auctioned today are our private money, enough for us to become wealthy in the future. Oh my god, so much money, I'm so happy."
Lin Sanqi's policy is to spend money earned domestically and save money earned abroad abroad.
Previously, Lin Sanqi and Yin Lianyi's idea was to leave 5 billion US dollars as a guarantee for their future small family, and Lin Sanqi could do whatever he wanted with the rest.
But what Yin Lianyi didn't know was that someone still had 100 tons of gold in stock. If calculated at 50 million US dollars per ton, that's almost another 5 billion US dollars.
The problem is that gold can increase in value and preserve its value. In 10 years (2025), the value of gold is estimated to more than double, so wealth will also double.
But who would complain about having too much money?
Lin Sanqi is not like other time travelers who went through so much trouble to collect so many antique oil coupons and other things in another era, but ended up not selling them.
Netizens are not joking when they say that there is no protagonist in a time-travel novel who ends up selling the monkey stamps.
Lin Sanqi was not a cultural relic enthusiast, nor was he a famous patriotic businessman who donated all his antiques. It would be so high-profile of him to do so.
He is just an ordinary person, and his purpose of traveling through time is to monetize his traffic, so of course he has to exchange the antiques from another time and space for money and gold, which makes it meaningful.
At the auction stage, the auctioneer was trying to mislead people again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the painting we are about to shoot is a painting that the Spanish master Pablo Picasso personally painted for his mother. Please take a look."
The live band started playing again, and a beam of light shone down, illuminating a painting on the stage.
The picture shows an elderly woman holding a cat and laughing heartily.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Pablo Picasso created countless masterpieces throughout his life, but this painting, ‘Mother,’ created in 1930, is the only portrait of his family that he ever created and is therefore extremely precious.
This painting expresses Mr. Picasso's immense love and remembrance for his mother, Ms. Maria Picasso-Lopez, and is also the painting that he was most satisfied with and loved the most in his life.
To what extent was he satisfied? This "Mother" was the only painting hanging in his bedroom. In Mr. Picasso's words, he hoped to see his mother's smile every day when he woke up and say good night to her before going to bed every night.
In 1904, when 19-year-old Picasso settled in Paris, the first thing he did was to change his name from Don José Luis y Blasco to Picasso.
Imagine if you went abroad to study at the age of 19, and the first thing you did was to announce: "I want to take my mother's last name!" From this small detail and story, we can see how much Picasso loved his mother.
Unfortunately, Ms. Maria Picasso-López died in the war in 1932, which became a lifelong pain for Picasso. Therefore, he cherished this painting "Mother" even more and carried it with him wherever he moved.
However, this painting, "Mother", which was Picasso's favorite in his life, was stolen by a thief in 1940. At that time, Mr. Picasso was heartbroken and even offered a reward of 1 million francs to get the painting back.
But decades passed, and until Mr. Picasso died, he still hadn't found his favorite painting "Mother". But now, ladies and gentlemen, "Mother" has appeared before us.
If you miss your mother, if you love Mr. Picasso's art, perhaps you can bring him home. What you bring back is not just a painting, but Mr. Picasso's favorite, "Mother," the only one in the world.
Yin Lianyi was moved when she heard it:
"Wow, Picasso loved his mother so much. He would be so happy if he knew his 'Mother' was found."
Lin Sanqi burst out laughing:
"Forget it. This painting is indeed by Picasso. It's an authentic work, but the story isn't necessarily true. Who knows if the old woman in the painting is his mother or a model?"
Yin Lianyi stared blankly at the painting in the distance: "But didn't the auctioneer just say it was Picasso's favorite, 'Mother'?"
Lin Sanqi chuckled:
"It's all made up. If you don't make up a touching story, how can you trick those wealthy people into spending a huge amount of money to buy this Picasso painting?
To be honest, I really can't appreciate this Picasso painting. I just can't see the beauty in it. It's just like the paintings I drew when I was a kid."
Yin Lianyi rolled her eyes at her boyfriend. "You talk as if you can appreciate traditional Chinese ink painting."
Lin Sanqi scratched his head, thinking that he really didn't have any artistic talent. If it weren't for the golden finger of time travel, he wouldn't even have the talent to make money.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen, we've already shown you this painting, 'Mother,' by Picasso, during its global tour. Now we're officially opening the auction. The starting price is $100 million, with each bid increasing by $5 million. If you're interested, get ready.
Okay, let’s start now~~~” (End of this chapter)
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