The entrance to Gu's Book Gallery.
The half-bald old man had a bucket at his feet and was washing the car of an old Lexus S with a big sponge.
"Hey, look at this car paint, this shape, how powerful it is."
The old man was washing the car, humming to himself.
Car washing, like playing chess, is one of the few old comrade Gu Tongxiang’s hobbies that he has retained from his youth to this day.
Other old men like to dance in the square when they are happy, but Gu Tongxiang likes to stand on the street with a bucket and wash the car.
In addition to saving some car washing fees, car washing is more of a spiritual pleasure.
The sense of vanity gained from maintaining his car in front of old neighbors is no different from that of young people who drive small sports cars and whistle to girls on the street.
Thirty years ago, those who could afford to drive such a commercial vehicle with a 40-liter V8 large-displacement engine on the streets of Yangon were as prestigious as driving a Porsche or Maserati.
The price of the first-generation Lexus S was not cheaper than the two.
It was really a glorious period of bright clothes and angry horses.
"For the sake of scripture, let's wash the car together. After washing, let's go out to drive today and go for a drive." Gu Tongxiang stopped his grandson who was walking by the door and put his finger on the roof of his car. I took two shots.
Gu Weijing had just returned home from outside with a thick leather document bag under his arm.
He was about to enter the yard when he heard his grandfather's voice. He turned his head and found that his grandfather was taking care of his classic car on the street.
I have the impression that grandpa hasn’t washed the car for a while.
It seems that I am in a particularly good mood today.
"Something happy"
Gu Weijing asked curiously.
"Your grandpa and me"
Mr. Gu Tongxiang hesitated for a moment, looked around and saw that there was no one on the street, so he lowered his voice and said in a sly voice, "Guess what I am?" How much did a painting sell for?"
The old man quietly stretched out his palm and drew a number,
"Five hundred thousand kyats" Gu Weijing thought for a while.
"Who are you looking down on? This is, I used to sell a painting for 500,000 kyats, signed a contract with Ma Shi Gallery, and can sell it for another 500,000 kyats. I look down on your grandfather, but I still look down on Ma Shi. Gallery"
Old man Gu pretended to be unhappy.
"The painting you hung in the Mas Gallery was sold." After Gu Weijing found out about the signing, Hanks took one of his grandfather's peony paintings and hung it in the gallery. on the home page.
"Of course, I sold it for a full 5,000."
"Euros"
"The big European galleries don't accept kyats either, right?"
Old man Gu raised his chin triumphantly, his face glowing red, and the few remaining hairs on his forehead almost stood up like tentacles of a cricket with joy.
“5,000 euros for a sketch of a peony painting, it’s a child’s play.”
“Someone spent so much money, it’s really not the gallery’s fault”
Gu Weijing was indeed a little shocked.
He has seen the peony picture, a traditional Chinese painting with only one flower. No matter how graceful the flower is, how big can it be?
The entire painting is probably about 13 to 14 square feet.
5,000 euros for 14 square feet
Even 3,500 euros for 1 square foot is fine.
This price is still not comparable to Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian.
But some of Mr. Qi’s less famous disciples and disciples may not be able to sell them at this price.
It is true that foreign buyers like the style of fusion paintings, and the price is indeed much higher than expected.
"What you are saying is that he is a famous big buyer in Europe. He was probably conquered by your grandfather's superb and capable pen."
Old man Gu threw away the sponge. Enter the bucket next to the wheel.
He wiped his hands with a broad smile on his face.
At the previous city biennale in Yangon, he sold a sketch for US$500, which was regarded by the old man as one of the most proud things in his life.
Now a sketch painting worth 5,000 euros makes Gu Tongxiang even more beautiful.
“Heh, let me just say, if we weren’t trapped in a three-quarter acre of land in Yangon and didn’t have good publicity channels, your grandpa and I would definitely have achieved more than just opening a small gallery. ”
The old man is extremely proud.
Even Hanks from Ma Shi Gallery was shocked by the turnover of this online auction.
In particular, he was really prepared to raise the price.
Even with the support, Hanks only arranged a transaction price of about 1,800 euros.
After all, this is the first shot of a newly signed painter.
If no one is interested, or if it is sold for a transaction price of one or two hundred euros, the appearance of Mashi Gallery will be a bit ugly.
As usual.
Hanks arranged for several trustees to participate in several bids in the middle of the online auction to heighten the atmosphere.
Then within one minute of the end of the auction, if the price is still too low, a bid of 1,800 euros will be made to buy the painting, creating a good start.
With the 1,800 Euro transaction as a reference,
In the future, both promotion and pricing of Gu Tongxiang’s other works can be carried out around this price.
Of course, the agent who raises the price usually only arranges this one time to set a rough benchmark for a painter's worth.
Whether the work can be sold in the future depends on the artist’s true ability.
Otherwise, there would not be those miscellaneous painters with annual sales of 0 cents in the Ma Shi Gallery.
They have prices, but no one buys them, and galleries are unwilling to devote resources to promotion.
As a result, a buyer suddenly appeared and made a direct offer of 5,000 euros.
How to describe it?
This price is so fake, it doesn’t seem like a promise.
Especially when Hanks checked the personal information of the bidding account, the last trace of concern that Gu Tongxiang spent money to find the gunman to buy it was completely dissipated.
The online auction system of Ma Shi Gallery is jointly developed with Christie’s online auction system, and customers of both parties can share it.
The account of this big buyer shows that she is a vv-level customer.
The customer level of large auction houses is generally directly linked to the transaction volume. High-authority customers have one-on-one services from dedicated account managers at the auction house, and can pay less deposits to participate in the bidding.
If you meet some customers who are in urgent need of money, are unwilling to wait, or do not want to bid for other personal reasons, but have precious collections in their hands.
Justice and Sotheby's can also contact these customers first to ask if they are interested in buying.
As long as you have the ability to buy some very rare collections with cash, you can make a lot of money by selling them after a while.
To reach the buyer's account credit level, you need to have accumulated a shopping amount of at least 30 million euros in Christie's auction houses.
The people behind accounts of this level are often either Middle Eastern princes or Silicon Valley tycoons.
When you participate in the bidding of paintings by Monet and Cézanne, you can bid based on your reputation alone, and you don’t need to pay a penny deposit in advance.
It is impossible for such a distinguished guest to be hired as a gunman.
The bid of 5,000 euros or 50,000 euros does not make much difference to them. The fuel cost of a yacht party going out to sea is more than this amount.
"Gu Tongxiang", the newly signed agent painter, can be favored by such a top collector. More than a check of 5,000 euros, it can prove the value of this painter.
Just like the Shanghai karaoke dancer who was favored by the big warlord during the Republic of China.
It doesn’t matter how much the overnight stay is.
Originally, Gu Tongxiang was signed mainly because he was Gu Weijing’s grandfather.
After this online auction, Hanks’s importance to Old Man Gu had to quietly increase a notch.
Gu Tongxiang enjoyed his grandson's unsuspecting look of surprise very much.
This period of time.
The progress of grandson Gu Weijing always shocks me as a grandfather.
This time the old man finally gained a lot of authority.
It’s not like Gu Tongxiang has never sold works worth thousands of dollars in the past, but those were large paintings that he polished with all his hard work. They had to be hung in the store for ten days and a half before they could even be touched.The last diplomat or wealthy jade businessman who was about to return to his country was willing to be the leader of this "wrong".
This is the first painting sold in Ma Shi Gallery, and it can be sold for 5,000 euros.
The difficulty of fusion painting lies more in the know-how of painting techniques.
Small paintings such as peonies can be completed in one or two cups of tea. Calculating this efficiency, you might be a millionaire after one year of painting.
Of course, the income of a painter cannot be calculated in this way.
Moreover, most of Mr. Gu’s contract was taken away by Mashi Gallery, but compared with before, his career has reached a new level.
Normally,
Gu Tongxiang’s character would not be willing to share this kind of thing with the younger generation.
Wealth makes people lazy.
When the grandchildren know that he, as a grandfather, can make a lot of money now, and there is no financial pressure on the family, they may become like many classmates at Dulwich College and become dandy.
But
Not to mention that the painting method of this fusion painting was guided by Gu Weijing. In his heart, Gu Tongxiang now regards his grandson more as a real of adults.
He believed that Gu Weijing would not be fooled by this small amount of money, and his future achievements would be much greater than his own.
Five thousand euros is nothing compared to the contract that Mas Gallery prepared for him.
"Find a place with few people for you to practice your skills. You will be able to get your driver's license soon. Boys always have to learn to drive." The old man suggested.
According to Yangon’s local regulations, learning to drive does not require attending a specific driving school.
Gu Tongxiang can teach his grandson to drive by himself, as long as he attends a two-day road safety training course authorized by the local transportation bureau after reaching the age of 18, and then applies for a road test.
After passing, you can directly obtain a driver's license.
"Tomorrow night, I have some arrangements for today." Gu Weijing pinched the large brown paper envelope in his arms and calculated the time.
"It's up to you."
Gu Tongxiang took out the sponge from the bucket again and began to wipe the windshield of the car. Awesome, there are still a lot of things to learn from the elders. I am still older than you, my grandfather and I. We were really prosperous back then."
If we talk about selling cheap second-hand art in the turbulent times when we were young, , was the first major turning point in the life of old man Gu Tongxiang, which allowed him to escape poverty and barely become a member of the local middle and upper class.
So signing with Ma Shi Gallery this time is the second turning point in the old man’s life, and his career has reached an unprecedented new peak.
After selling works worth several thousand euros per square foot, my whole mood changed completely.
Career is a man’s aphrodisiac.
In the neighbor's house, the old men are getting older and raising cats and dogs and squares.When the dancing aunt is flirting.
Gu Tongxiang changed out of his gray vest with holes and loose shorts, and now he dressed himself in a Tang suit with embroidered basket bottoms and smart black cloth shoes.
He was lucky enough to meet Mr. Cao Xuan during the Spring Festival. His temperament and appearance as a great artist left a deep impression on Mr. Gu. He was so stylish
As Mr. Cao's little fanboy.
Gu Tongxiang also secretly had sex.
Now that I am a contracted painter with an international gallery, I can’t be too unscrupulous even if I don’t talk about good looks. Compared with Cao Xuan's age, Gu Tongxiang feels that he can still work hard.
When a person's mind is revived, his whole person becomes younger.
After a long absence, he took out the hair oil that was almost dry and clumped, and began to take care of his bald head again. Recently, he even thought about hair transplant every day.
I don’t know if all the hair follicles in the occiput of my head have shrunk and died, and whether they can be rescued.
Lying in bed at night, occasionally thinking about his changes, even Gu Tongxiang found it incredible.
Half a year ago, he was still the old man who thought he could just close his eyes and die after sending his grandson to college. Half a year later, he was actually thinking about getting a hair transplant
As the saying goes, spring comes out of dead trees, and money cannot buy it. Lao Lai Qiao probably describes his current state of mind.
Shua
A large sponge soaked in water slid across the car body.
Gu Tongxiang looked at his face reflected in the smooth car paint, and seemed to see his appearance when he was more than twenty years younger emerging from between the black car body.
Glory.
He really seemed to be back in his prime. My steps are much lighter, and I want to kick the cans I pass by on the street. The dead cat passing by the neighbor's house wanted to be kicked
Meow
Old man Wu's cat followed Gu Weijing who had just returned home and wandered over. He looked at Gu Tongxiang and licked it own feet.
Old Man Gu felt a phantom pain in his cheek and quietly turned his head away.
Forget it.
What do I have to argue with the beast? If my grandson likes it, just let it go.
"Even if thousands of songs float in the distance on my road in the future, even if thousands of evening stars shine brighter than the moon tonight"
The phone in the pocket rang. Chen Shuhua's old songs.
Gu Tongxiang placed the sponge on the hood of the car, took out his cell phone, and found that the call was from Hanks.
"Hey, Mr. Mas, are you coming over today."
Since Old Man Gu also signed the contract with Mas Gallery, the number of times Hanks went to Gu's calligraphy and painting shop It becomes less.
Now Hanks does not need to come over every day to bring tea and water, and to draw and say nice things to Gu Tongxiang to build a closer relationship.
Now he is also Gu Tongxiang’s official agent.
Agents and agentsThe family is a closer community of interests than ordinary flattery.
"No, no. Mr. Gu, do you remember the big collector who bought your peony paintings before?" Hanks' tone was a little nervous.
"Is there any problem with this deal?"
Hearing the agent's urgent voice on the microphone, Gu Tongxiang also became nervous.
He didn’t want the first painting he sold at the Ma Shi Gallery to cause any trouble.
"No problem, it's a great thing. I heard that the collector admired your works very much, so she contacted Ma Shi III today, hoping to add your contact information."
p>Hanks' tone became serious, and he took a deep breath, "Mr. Gu, this is our opportunity, you have to seize it." Please remember to bookmark, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft and free of charge Read