The story of overnight wealth is believed that everyone has heard, and there are too many types of overnight wealth, which is more common in reality than spending two dollars to win the lottery ticket of five million, and there are many types of overnight wealth in film and television works.
For example, after helping an old man, the old man finally heard that the protagonist's entrepreneurial plan took out a check directly from his pocket and wrote a few numbers and handed it to the protagonist, and the poor protagonist was suddenly approached by a housekeeper and said that he wanted him to inherit the billionaire, and so on, as long as the screenwriter's brain hole is big enough, it can be written.
However, in real life, such a very surprising story occurred, an old lady in her nineties suddenly found out by chance that a painting that had been smoked by oil smoke for many years in the kitchen was a valuable treasure, and finally the painting was handed over to the auction house, auctioned for a high price of 190 million, what kind of painting can be so valuable?
A famous painting hidden in the kitchen
It happened in a small town in France called Compiègne, when an old woman in her nineties was ready to move to a nursing home with better conditions because of her mobility.
Before moving, the old lady called a local auction house staff member to his house, hoping to let the staff member see what was worth the auction in the house.
Before going to the old lady's house, the staff member thought that there should be no valuable antiques in this town, almost some souvenirs of special significance.
When I arrived at the old lady's home and saw several items that the old lady took out that she thought were very valuable, the staff carefully identified and found that the oldest of these things were only old objects from fifty or sixty years ago, and there was not much value.
After telling the old lady that the items were not worth much, the staff member was ready to leave. But as he was about to leave, the staff member inadvertently saw an oil painting hanging on the kitchen, which attracted the attention of the staff.
From the appearance point of view, this oil painting has been edified for more than half a century, and it has been smoked by oil smoke all over the oil. After a brief inquiry, it was learned that this painting was used by the old lady to block the oil smoke, so it would be smoked beyond recognition.
However, after a difficult identification, the staff member relied on the painting knowledge he had learned before, and after a simple judgment, found that the layout and details of the painting were perfect, and the person who could paint the painting must be a well-known painter.
After a brief thought, he thought it might be the work of Chimabue, who was just his stage name, and his full name was Bencchivieni di Pepo. He was one of the leading figures of the Renaissance, and Chimabue began to reform the popular painting style from the thirteenth century, making outstanding contributions to the reform of painting.
The Cimabue paintings fetched an astonishingly high price
Chimabue's painting style is described in eight words as "taking its essence and removing its dross", which not only retains the essence of the popular painting style in the previous society, but also integrates the characteristics of that era.
Before the Renaissance, religion arguably remained absolutely dominant on the European continent, deifying religious figures as much as possible, both in painting and depiction.
After the Renaissance, with the continuous progress of thought, people also had some changes in their views on religion, and gradually pulled God off the altar. The idols he painted no longer gave people the illusion of being out of reach from above, but gave them the characteristics of man.
The oil painting found in the old lady's house is one of The Mocked Jesus, one of The Mocking Jesus, which was at the peak of Chimabue, and at the peak of The Qimabue, eight oil paintings were created, but only two were preserved in the museum because of the turbulent situation. Originally, people thought that the other six paintings had been destroyed, but they did not expect to find one of the six paintings in the old lady's house.
Finally, with the consent of the old lady, the auction house put the famous painting on public auction. Finally, after a fierce auction, the painting was successfully sold for 20 million euros, which was equivalent to 190 million yuan at the exchange rate at that time. This also made this nearly ninety-year-old lady rich overnight and became a winner in her old age.
The same encounter of "Wen Ji Gui Han Tu"
In addition to France, the same story has happened in our country. Let's push the timeline back to the 1990s.
At that time, a team of cultural relics scientists in china were collecting cultural relics scattered throughout the country, and when the cultural relics scholars came to a small mountain village in the northeast region, they unexpectedly found that in the home of a villager, there was a piece of cloth hanging on the kitchen that was very peculiar.
This piece of cloth has been recalled by the villagers for some years. When the antiquologist took off the painting, which had been smoked out of shape, it was faintly recognized that it was an ancient painting.
Later, the antiquologist brought the painting back and carefully cleaned it up, so that the "rag" showed its proper appearance. After careful identification by several cultural relics experts, it was finally determined that this was a "Wenji Guihan Tu" created by Zhang Yu of the Jin Dynasty.
The painting depicts Cai Wenji's return to the Han Dynasty, and there are twelve figures in the whole volume, not only the escort officials in bearded clothes, Cai Wenji wearing a mink hat and extremely gorgeous costumes, and the retinue who helped Cai Wenji lead the horse, but also many hounds and eagles.
Such a combination of characters makes the whole painting style look very harmonious, the cooperation between humans and animals is also very natural, and through Zhang Yu's paintings, the expressions of the characters are very realistic.
After Liu Yu created this painting, it was praised by many painters at that time. In the Qing Dynasty, it was stamped with two large seals and two small seals by the "stamp demon" Qianlong, and it was also quite poetic to inscribe his own temporary "oil poems" on the painting.
Later, after expert appraisal, this painting not only has the seal of Qianlong but also the seal of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty, and the Xuantong Emperor. Through these seals, liu yu's painting skills can also be shown, and it is still praised by many people hundreds of years later.
brief summary:
Although there are many examples of making a fortune from heirlooms, these heirlooms are ultimately a microcosm of Chinese culture. Whether buying or selling, we should look for legal trading channels, so as not to steal China's splendid five-thousand-year culture from being stolen by organizations or individuals with ulterior motives.