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"The old count has a very good relationship with this aunt who often took him out to play when he was a child. He watched the other party suffer mental and physical torture. Dying next to him. That must have had a huge emotional impact on him."
The white rose bouquet in front of Anna swayed slightly in the wind.
Elliot tapped his toes on the floor uneasily.
She is the kind of little girl who has a bit of a wealthy family background. She has been fond of the romantic nineteenth century since she was a child.
The records in middle school textbooks call this period of history the "Golden Age", which was the last prosperous time of good old Europe before the war.
The imagination in her mind is often filled with the scene style of Proust reminiscing about lost time.
The handsome young officer wearing riding boots and carrying a saber and pistol danced in the salon under the sunset with the girl wearing a pleated skirt with a silver brooch on her chest, bathing in the music of waltz.
But imagination and reality are always different.
When the heir of the Elena family told this past event in Elliot's ear.
The smoke and dust of history with the smell of grit and blood will blow towards your face and cover the secretary’s head.
She realized it instantly.
When people recall historical figures, they always use subjective filters.
How many monarchs and lords in the history books who are famous for their kindness will regard human life as nothing. Bishops and monks canonized by the Vatican also sold indulgence scrolls and placed witch-burning racks on both sides of the Rhine.
Even the great and immortal Tolstoy repeatedly confessed in his memoirs that in his youth he used whips to whip servants and serfs like wild dogs.
The feudal era was the feudal era.
Even the Irina family, the most gentle, civilized and art-loving nobles, have done such cruel and inhumane things.
"That Ms. Carla died like this, leaving nothing behind, not a single painting."
Anna was silent for a few seconds, shook her head and nodded.
“According to records, Grandma Kara died of tuberculosis within a few years of being imprisoned. It’s hard to say whether she was lucky or unfortunate.”
“If she had lasted a few more years, she might have been able to survive. My brother's death, or death, was a relief for Grandma Carla at that time."
"I once saw a set of photos when I was a student, which were exposed by the French police in the last century. News photos of an illegal imprisonment case. A wealthy lady was locked up in an attic by her mother for sixteen years. The girl who used to look like a fairy in the photo has been tortured like a ghost. ”
< p>Anna took off the soft woolen hat on her head and held the brim of the hat with her hands.“I want to say that the Elena family is not a noble sage. My ancestors did many right things and many irreparable wrong things. So.The oil painting magazine is not necessarily bound to the name Irina. ”
“It’s just that this magazine started from the moment it was founded. It is just a container to hold the artist's soul, not the hands that control the art market. In the eyes of the old count, magazine editors are not really writing art reviews, they are just acting as a bridge between excellent works of art and the audience, allowing the paintings to tell their own beauty to the world.
At the same time, they will uphold their perseverance and show outstanding painters from all corners of the world to collectors all over the world, regardless of wealth or poverty, origin or gender. Help the next possible painter like Grandma Kara.
If this persistent quality were lost, the oil painting magazine would be dead. All that's left is an empty shell. That's why I'm here today even though I know the outcome of the shareholders' meeting. "
"In honor of Carla. ”
Anna took off her hat to the bronze statue, then turned sideways and bowed slightly to express her gratitude to the street band who played the Blue Danube for her not far away.
Girl Turn around and walk towards the door of the Oil Painting Magazine.
Ten minutes later, there is a large conference room on the top floor of the magazine.
"Mr. Al-Khelaifi, I heard that you successfully persuaded me. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's foundation mobilized US$36.55 million in funds. At the Poly Paris Spring Auction at the beginning of the year, it was really a big deal to buy a haystack by Monet. If only my memory hadn't been faulted by old age. The Metropolitan Museum already has a haystack and two water lilies. "
"Exactly, Sir Brown, rest assured, your memory is as accurate as that of a young lad. I have always believed that Impressionism is a stable and value-preserving gold in the field of art investment, which is much more stable than Pop Art at a similar price. The opportunity to own a Monet is always very rare, not to mention that in 2019, another Haystack was sold for US$110.6 billion. "
"Well, I heard that the haystack you bought is not in very good condition and has signs of later repairs." Another person with an Asian face wearing a dark blue formal suit said.
“You get what you pay for, and US$3,600 is much cheaper than US$100 million. Four paintings by Monet, two by Degas, one by Renoir, two by Seurat, one by Mademoiselle Marie, and three by Manet. Counting this painting, the Met's current collection is large enough to hold a small special exhibition on Impressionism. "
Khelaifi, the chief art advisor of the Metropolitan Museum, turned his head and asked, "Speaking of which, Professor Rikiya Sakurai, you are a senior curator and you are also very knowledgeable about the artistic style of Impressionism. Your tonal analysis of Pissarro's works in Asian Art is impressive. If I invite you at this moment. I wonder if Professor Sakurai is interested in organizing this special exhibition. "
"Well, maybe the time is not right. Sorry, I also want to win Japan’s participation in the next Venice Biennale.It is difficult to find time for the position of chief curator of the national pavilion."
With the arrival of Miss Irina, all shareholders of the magazine were present.
The art world There are a lot of big names here.
Any ambitious art student who walks into this conference room may faint from excitement.
The career of an artist requires noble people. >
And every shareholder present here is such a noble person
Some of them are art professors, art experts, top curators, and are also academicians of the French Academy or Turner Watercolor.
Any one of them, put outside, is the kind of person who can make people soar and save them ten years of detours with just a few clicks of their fingers. >The shareholder structure of Oil Painting Magazine is very fragmented.
Before the entry of Kruger Brothers Bank, the only major shareholders were the Austrian National Publishing Group, the European Art Association and the Irina family.
There are many small shareholders.
Almost all are famous art figures and art critics.
This kind of ownership structure is a characteristic of oil painting magazines in recent years.
Sufficient top experts and scholars usually hold important positions. Who would have the time to spend so much energy writing articles for a magazine?
In the past. For half a century, Anna's grandfather and aunt were managing this institution.
In order to hire some scholars of sufficient importance to write or serve as guest commentators,
they sometimes did so. They offered the opportunity to purchase a certain share of the magazine's equity at a relatively low price, attracting world-class experts and scholars to write long-term reviews of oil paintings.
In addition to maintaining their independence, they rejected the gallery owners.
Almost all of the remaining high-end art people have received requests for capital injection.
Even the shareholders of oil paintings. There is a rumor that the other party has a close relationship with a certain prime ministerial candidate and hopes to become the top leader of the cultural department in the next government.
If five hundred years ago, it was the church that controlled the artistic aesthetics of European society
Three hundred years ago, it was the king.
In the past century, it was the church. Shareholders of this oil painting magazine.
If a terrorist detonates a bomb in this conference room at this time, then this bomb will destroy more than just the body. , but the abstract concept of "artistic aesthetics" will trigger a huge earthquake that will affect the global art world tomorrow morning.
The management of the oil painting magazine holds the art market in its hands. In a super gold mine where more than 10 billion U.S. dollars of capital have flowed in, the amount is still rising, but the profitability of the entire magazine is not high.
Before Kruger Bank considered taking a stake, even the market valuation only stayed at a conservative 70 million 100 million euros.
Perhaps this can be ranked among the top ten in the world in the entire magazine media field.
But shareholders want more than just some bullshit top ten magazine in the world. With the resources they have, they can easily become one of the most valuable magazines.
Compared with North American Vogue, a leading fashion magazine with a century-old history similar to that of Oil Painting.
But it may not even be half of the brand valuation given by investment banks on Wall Street.
There is still a lot of room for commercial value to be tapped.
Compared with their outstanding achievements in the field of art, the Irina family is indeed too cautious in finance.
People are always greedy.
Therefore,
From the moment Anna's wheelchair was pushed into the conference room by Elliot, the atmosphere in the room was extremely weird.
The conference room is large.
There are red curtains, thick carpets, and an antique walnut bar table in the middle to divide the room into two halves.
Comfortable armchairs are placed opposite each other on both sides of the long table.
On one side of the long table sat a group of old men with an average age of over fifty-five.
Sitting alone in the opposite row were two young girls whose combined total was less than 50 years old.
The old men have gray hair.
The girls are so tender that they can squeeze out water.
At this time, the scene in the conference room looked incongruous, like dead old trees confronting two bright hyacinths.
The composition is like some kind of religious painting with strange meanings.
These art giants who can influence the trend of contemporary art always look at the opposite side of the table involuntarily while whispering to each other.
No one of them spoke to Anna.
The shareholders’ meeting did not undergo any advance rehearsal.
All seats are formed spontaneously.
The atmosphere in which these people whispered and talked to each other, while deliberately isolating the two girls across the table, was also formed spontaneously.
"What a pity."
Someone sighed quietly in their hearts.
Many of them have no personal prejudice against Miss Anna.
Even in the past, there was a good personal friendship with Anna's aunt.
Only today, with a strange tacit understanding, they all maintained a deliberate distance from Elena.
Even when the other person looked over, he took the initiative to turn his head, completely treating the other person as an invisible ghost.
"Why do you have to come here and witness yourself being driven away?" Professor Sakurai, who was sitting diagonally across from Anna, showed sympathy and intolerance on his face.
The shareholders' meeting has not been officially held yet.
It will be completely clear what the voting results will be after a while.
"It's too much, these old things are too much."
Sitting across the table, Elliot gritted his teeth.
She saw Anna saying hello to the old guys on the opposite side one by one, but the other side completely ignored them.
The secretary hated it so much that she could not smash the hot teacup in her hand on the heads of the old guys opposite.
Elliot began to regret not persuading Miss Elena to bring a legal team. Even if he didn't do anything, it would be good to build a strong momentum.
Perhaps
In the situation before us, it may be a wiser choice to simply abstain from voting at this shareholder meeting.
"By the way, Miss Elena"
The female secretary could not bear the embarrassing calmness around them at this time, so she took off the aeenci adsorbed on the tablet.
Elliot swiped a few times on his electronic wallet and pulled out the file he was looking for.
“You previously asked me to pay attention to the information about newly added artist members of Saatchi Gallery, Tokyo Gallery, Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York and M&A. I updated the latest information of these galleries from their official websites. The updated content of the artist list has been taken down. But I can only count all the public information. I don’t know if this list will satisfy you.”
Elliot handed over the tablet.
She is the full-time personal secretary hired by Miss Irina. A few weeks ago, the lady specially asked her to pay attention to the list of agent painters in these galleries.
She asked herself to sort out all the new names, preferably writing a detailed personal information.
This request is very strange.
Elliot didn't know what the lady was doing mysteriously.
She didn’t ask any more questions.
She is just a person who is responsible for doing things and only needs to care about how to carry out Anna's orders.
The work itself is not complicated.
After a large gallery signs a new artist, they will immediately update the relevant signing information on their official homepage and establish a personal webpage for the new agent painter.
A detailed creative resume is often attached directly to the personal homepage to increase collectors’ understanding of the painter and facilitate the sale of paintings in the future.
Elliot just needs to be careful, stare at the web page every day, and just copy and paste any new information.
In the conference room, the scene of my young lady being left there without anyone paying attention was really too sad.
Elliot wanted to change the topic, anything would do.
At least don’t let Anna stay there seemingly unnoticed.
"Oh, is there any new news?"
Anna's eyes lit up as she looked as calm as an ice sculpture.
Her slender eyebrows were slightly raised, with excitement and curiosity.The vivid expression flashed from the girl's face.
Elliot captured this scene, feeling strange in his heart.
She vaguely felt that
Compared to the changes involving tens of millions of euros in assets, this small list seemed to concern Miss Anna more.
"Well, except for the Tokyo gallery, the agent list has not changed. The remaining three have all represented a new artist's work this month."
"That's it."
p>Anna took the tablet.
There are only three people
No,
It should be said that there are three people
Every artist represented by the top intercontinental gallery After a long period of careful selection, Gagosian Gallery wishes that the list would not change from year to year, as three major galleries have recently signed new hires.
It seems that the high-end art market is quite lively this month.
"There are only three people in Africa, let me see for myself."
Anna quickly swiped through the documents organized by the secretary on the tablet.
Newcomers to all three galleries are filed separately in a file, along with accompanying photos.
Gallery Saatchi Gallery
Name Maliuk Johnlevich
Age 35
Oil painting buyer rating two stars
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The first document is of a middle-aged Caucasian man.
In the photo, he has a beard with a very artistic temperament. From the appearance, he is not at all similar to the detective cat sister.
Anna did not close the document immediately.
"thedetectivecat" is just a screen name.
The personal information registered on fiverr may not be true.
Since I can change my voice into a middle-aged uncle on the Internet, Detective Cat may not be a Russian.
However, after the girl read two pages of Maliuk's personal information, she shook her head in disappointment.
"The temperament doesn't match. This guy has been hanging out in art galleries for many years."
This guy graduated from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in watercolor painting, and he has already signed a contract with an Eastern European company A medium-sized gallery was recruited by Saatchi Gallery this year.
Malyuk’s situation is normal, and InterContinental Gallery has a very high vision.
Unless there is a reliable recommender or a supernova who made a splash at the Biennale.
They rarely sign amateurs from the bottom of the art market.
Most of them are poaching some mid-level painters who have already established a certain reputation from small galleries and medium-sized galleries with joint agency agreements.
There are only a few like Ms. Detective Cat.
Both the information in the words and the feeling brought to Anna by the words.
She thought that this eldest sister was more like a young newcomer who had never signed a contract with a serious gallery.
Miss Elena switched to the next document.
The "new" painter at Lehmann Maupin in New York is in a similar situation to Maliuk, a 41-year-old French female painter.
The age and gender are both correct.
Algeria was France's most important colony in Africa.
Logically speaking, she is most likely to be a detective cat.
But Miss Elena just drew for a few seconds, scanned the file, and then closed it altogether.
This is an artist with an avant-garde art style. Her masterpiece is not even a painting, but a formalin-soaked swordfish specimen placed in an aquarium.
Anna does not believe that the other party can possess outstanding skills like a detective cat.
More importantly.
Before joining Lehmann Maupin in New York this month, he was a three-star painter in the buyer's guide of oil painting magazine. After joining, he was directly adjusted to three and a half stars.
The swordfish specimen alone was bought by a Lebanese businessman for 170,000 euros.
This kind of artist cannot draw illustrations online for ten dollars.
"There is only one left."
Anna opened the last document with anxiety.
Then an old bald face with a smile like a meat bun came into the girl's eyes.
Gallery Ma Shi Gallery
Name Gu Tongxiang gutongxiang
Age 68
Oil painting buyer rating one star
"Gu Tongxiang"
Anna pondered this unfamiliar name.
The girl browsed the old man's personal information.
Its creative resume is very thin, and it seems that Mashi Gallery has racked its brains to make the background information of this elderly agent artist more convincing.
Unfortunately,
Although Mr. Gu Tongxiang is more than twenty years older than the first two on the list, his creative background is pitiful.
I don’t have any significant works or awards, and I have never been signed by a serious gallery before.
I didn’t even go to college.
He is a rare wild fox Zen type painter in modern times.
The background information states that he lives in Yangon, Myanmar, in a land that was once recognized by the United Nations as the poorest in the world.
“Having been engaged in painting and art management in the market for many years, I have rich experience that exceeds that of young painters, and I have my own profound and unique insights into Asian art trends.”
Looking at Ma Shi The gallery gave Mr. Gu the resume information he had painstakingly compiled.
Anna almost wanted to laugh.
This is signing for a painter, not an agent. When will years of experience in the field of art management be considered an advantage in creative style?
For the second half of the sentence, change it to a lower level. The expression of emotional intelligence points is even more clearly sayingAlthough the old man I signed is an unknown "little" guy, he is older
Of course, a man who is almost seventy years old has more experience than a thirty-year-old painter.
Miss Irina knows the style of these galleries.
This is obviously because this old gentleman really has nothing to put on the table in his past information, so he has no choice but to write this kind of vain copywriting.
Anna also noticed.
The recommendation pages of Gu Tongxiang in the Oil Painting Magazine Buyer's Guide are all newly created. There is only the information "Mashi Gallery is the agent of the painter", and the transaction price of the painting is also 0.
This means that even the editorial department of Oil Painting has never known or paid attention to this old man before.
It has not been three days since the one-star painter rating was updated.
The star rating of Oil Painting Magazine’s Buyer’s Guide adopts a dual scoring system of “market objectiveness and editorial subjectivity”.
Those who can be signed by Mashi Gallery are endorsed by the super gallery’s century-old reputation, and the minimum starting point is one star. If he can be signed by Gagosian, he will even start with three and a half stars.
Gu Tongxiang was attracted by oil painting purely because of Ma Shi’s reputation.
"It's really not easy for this old gentleman to be picked by Ma Shi in a remote country. I don't know what makes him stand out."
Anna scrolled down the page.
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