Chapter 355

Sorry, the update is a little late. I worked overtime today. There's no reason for that. We'll have a blast tomorrow to celebrate that our little friends have finished their high school career and are about to usher in beautiful college students. After two in the morning and eight in the morning, we'll continue tomorrow&&&&

This oil painting is about one meter long and 80 cm wide. It is completely preserved without oxidation and fragmentation.

Billy unfolded the paper slowly, and the oil painting showed its true face. The painting was very simple. Above was a dark gray sky, and below was a large number of curved oaks and shrubs.

Seeing this painting, Qin Shiou felt uncomfortable. He couldn't understand what was in the painting, but he could inexplicably feel that the atmosphere was too depressed. The color of the painting was too dim to make people despair.

At the first sight of the oil painting, Billy took a breath. Then he tried to control his hands not to shake and flattened the upturned corner on the right side of the painting. There was a scribbled signature. Qin Shiou couldn't understand it, so he looked at him and asked, "whose masterpiece is this?"

"Van Gogh, Vincent William Van Gogh! This is the sunset of monmaru! " Cried Billy nervously.

Hearing his cry, Qin Shiou couldn't help crying: "what? Is this van Gogh's painting? Is it genuine? "

Billy pressed the oil painting with linen, closed the argon filling chamber, sat on the chair, waved his hand and said, "no, no, take a rest first. God, I must be dreaming that I found Van Gogh's lost painting? The sunset of monmaru! "

Relatively speaking, Qin Shiou was calm. He said, "don't be so excited. I remember Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890, didn't he? At that time, his paintings were not popular at all, and the Titanic sank in 1912. Just over 20 years later, how could his paintings be suddenly stored by a person as a treasure? "

He knew this information when he found those fake sunflowers. He didn't know much. Later, he knew it was a fake, so he didn't know anything about Van Gogh.

Billy naturally knows more. He glanced at Qin Shiou and said angrily, "is it false for you to be Van Gogh's most unlucky artist? Yes, Van Gogh's works were not accepted by the world for a long time. But ten years after his death, at the end of the 19th century, the world underwent a comprehensive innovation. People's ideas were changed unprecedentedly, and their ability to accept new things was greatly improved. The value of his paintings began to show. "

He simply made an art popularization for Qin Shiou. Billy began to get busy. He called the oil painting expert of the company to ask about Van Gogh's paintings, and Qin Shiou continued to tidy up the safe.

He thought there should be more than one painting in the safe. As he expected, there was another thing in the caked activated carbon in the safe, but it was not a work of art, but also a letter.

The letter was scrawled and not in English, so Qin Shiou had to wait to show Billy.

Billy hung up the phone with a happy face. He said to Qin Shiou, "absolutely right. This is the authentic work of mengmaru sunset. I asked someone to check it just now."

Then he introduced the journey after the birth of the painting: "this painting was created by Van Gogh in 1888. Two years later, he committed suicide. This painting belongs to his brother Theo. In 1901, Theo sold the painting to musda, a Norwegian industrialist. Musda's housekeeper later said that he had kept the painting for about ten years. In 1911, he sold it to a French aristocrat, and then there was no news of the painting. "

"Obviously, the owner of the painting wanted to bring it to New York, but it fell to the bottom of the sea!" Qin Shiou finally said.

Billy smiled and said, "that's right!"

After confirming the identity of the painting, the two began to explore the value of the painting. Little black was more authoritative in this regard. Qin Shiou called him and asked, "man, if there is a real Van Gogh, um, the sunset of monmaru, how much can it sell?"

Little black said professionally, "the sunset in monmaru? The painting in 1888? The auction industry has made an evaluation before, and the price is between $40 million and $48 million. However, at the Sotheby's autumn auction in New York on the 4th of last month, Van Gogh's last painting Daisy and poppy sold at a high price of US $61.8 million. He said that Van Gogh's paintings have increased in value recently... And so on. "

After talking a lot, little black finally reacted and exclaimed at the other end of the phone: "God, you didn't find the sunset of monmaru? This painting has disappeared for a century! "

Knowing that the painting could sell for forty or fifty million yuan, Qin Shiou was happy and said generously, "you're lucky, man, you'll see this lost famous painting right away. And you're going to add a lot of money to your account. "

"I'll rush to your fishing ground tomorrow. When I wait, I'll keep the picture." After little black said this, his cry rang out on the phone and asked his secretary to book him the fastest flight to St. Johns.

Qin Shiou put away the phone and told Billy the valuation of little black. They clapped their hands to celebrate. Billy said excitedly, "do you have champagne at home? We must open champagne to celebrate! "

Qin Shiou calmed his mind and said, "don't worry. We still have a box. Maybe something more valuable will appear in it."

"What's more valuable is the gold pocket watch, the family symbol of John Jacob Astor IV. I don't think a violin box will contain such a thing." Billy laughed.

John Jacob Astor IV was one of the most famous victims of the Titanic. At that time, the richest man in the world and the patriarch of the Astor family in the United States once hired a legion to participate in the Spanish American War and help the United States fight. His death caused the turmoil of American bonds at that time because he was the largest holder.

They talked and laughed. Billy opened the last piano box. It was an ordinary violin, brown and black. Although the box is well sealed, the strings are still rotten, and there are some salt deposits on the piano.

Qin Shiou believes that this piano must also have its legend, because the Titanic is a legendary sunken ship, and everything found on the ship has a story.

But Billy was right. No matter how precious this piano is, it can't be compared with the sunset of monmaru. Even he can't be compared with Nathan Strauss's letter.

Don't underestimate that letter from home. A letter from the Titanic was auctioned off for ￡ 89000.

The owner of the letter was Arthur Hart, an ordinary British housewife who was going to immigrate to Canada with her daughter. And this one? This is a letter from Strauss's family. The value of both sides is not comparable. Not to mention the energy of the Strauss family, it's worth doubling the value of this letter. It's no problem to sell it for a million pounds!

Seal up the two letters, the violin and Van Gogh's famous paintings. They walked out of the basement with laughter. Billy joked, "we have to hire a special police to protect your basement."

Qin Shiou said, "why do you need special police? I have instructors in the Delta and soldiers of special forces. The most important thing is that there are two groups of war geese who want to rob things from me. Dream! "

"Battle goose? What's that? Those stupid geese you keep? " Billy laughed.

Qin Shiou also laughed. He suddenly found that Billy didn't know the power of Taihu goose and lion headed goose. Some of them played.