Chapter 640 Strange Goods 5

Bass. Jimei handed the thick kraft paper file bag to Zhuang Rui and said, "Mr. Zhuang, the list of items donated by Mr. and Mrs. Frey to the Jimei Museum and the Louvre is here. Please take a look first...

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Bass was asked to search for a long time at noon before he found this information from the archives. He didn't have time to look through it himself, and Zhuang Rui and others arrived.

When Zhuang Rui took the kraft paper bag, his tentacles felt that there was still a thin layer of dust on the surface of the kraft paper. Presumably, this large bag of files had been sealed for a long time.

With a deep breath, Zhuang Rui slowly opened the kraft paper bag. At this moment, Zhuang Rui felt as if he had opened a door, a door to the Yuanmingyuan Garden, which was burning a hundred years ago!

The burning of the old site of Yuanmingyuan has made many historical events unproved, and the Chinese antique cultural relics lost in it have become a mystery. How many things have been robbed by the Eight-Nation Alliance is still a controversial topic in China so far.

But now Zhuang Rui feels that he has touched the history of that year. Although it was only a country that invaded China at that time, it is believed that the conclusion derived from this is more accurate than the speculation of those domestic experts.

Opening the sealed file, Zhuang Rui reached out and took out a thick pile of documents from it. Through the bright glass window, Zhuang Rui could clearly see that the top document was a decree written in English and French, and at the signature below, it was the famous Charles de Gaulle. Army.

After carefully checking the content of this decree, it was Charles de Gaulle, the then President of France, who accepted the original archives of Chinese cultural relics donated by Frey, and the time span of donation was from 1914 to 1934.

But the signing of the decree was during the reign of Charles de Gaulle, that is, after 1945, it may have been signed when the Louvre handed over the file to the Jime Museum, with the signature of Frey's widow.

Among other things, this slightly yellow paper can already be regarded as an antique. These things that have been recorded at a certain time in history are of great research and collection value in the eyes of historians.

Just like the imperial edict of ancient China, all of them are precious cultural relics of great value that have survived to this day.

Zhuang Rui carefully put aside the decree signed by Charles de Gaulle and continued to look down. The seven or eight pieces of paper behind were all letters, including the correspondence between Frey and the curator of the Louvre and the Jimei Museum at that time.

However, these letters were all written in French. If it hadn't been for Qin Xuanbing around him who knew French, Zhuang Rui really couldn't understand what was written on it.

With the translation of Qin Xuanbing, Zhuang Rui and Huang Fuyun's faces became not very good-looking, because in 1914, in a letter from Frey and the director of the Jimei Museum at that time, he wrote: "These oriental works of art I have come from the main hall of the Shouhuang Hall, one of the ancestral emperors in Beijing - The location of the military headquarters.

Looking at the letters of the parties involved a hundred years ago, Zhuang Rui and Huang Fuyun have mixed feelings in their hearts. If the country is strong, the people are strong, and if the country is weak, the people are weak. In the eyes of Zhuang Rui and others, these things are extremely disgraceful, but in the hearts of those invaders,

shook his head, Zhuang Rui skipped the letter and asked Qin Xuanbing to continue to explain.

After listening to Qin Xuanbing's explanation word by word, Zhuang Rui finally understood the beginning and end of the donation of some Chinese art by the Frey family and its relatives, and there are also answers to some questions that many domestic experts have been confused about in these letters.

Since the 1980s, the oil painting portrait of the emperor and princess of the Qing Dynasty of China, which appeared in the international auction house, has always been mysterious and unknown to the world, and there have been many speculations about its origin.

But through these letters, we can clearly know that all the oil portraits are from the Frey family. In addition to what they donated to the museum, there are more than 10 portraits of the Princess of the Qing Dynasty, which have flowed into the international auction market.

There are a total of 18 pieces of Chinese art donated by the Frey family to the Jimei Museum and the Louvre, and three of these 18 collections are oil paintings by Lang Shining, namely, the fourth volume of Lang Shining's Mulan Tu, the first volume of Kazakh Gongmatu and Kangxi South Tour.

In addition, there are nine oil paintings of the portraits of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines painted by Western-style paintings by several other court painters. They are rare oil paintings of Emperors of the Qing Dynasty in Beijing and Taiwan's Palace Museum. There are actually as many as 12 paintings in the Jimei Museum.

Zhuang Rui sighed in his heart that because the oil paintings of the Qing Palace are too rare, scholars and experts who study such works in China have almost no information to refer to and compare. If he can take these paintings back, he must be able to fill a gap in the history of domestic art.

The remaining works of art on the list are also mostly ancient Chinese paintings, but the author on it is written with ominous words. In addition, there are 12 sets of jade seals of "Peiwenzhai" used by Emperor Kangxi and the seal of Yifang Qianlong's "Treasure of the Emperor".

These things are also precious in Zhuang Rui's eyes. Among the emperors of China, except for the Tang Ming Emperor, who was put under house arrest by his son for several years, and the two living father and son of Song Huizong, the remaining emperors who have been the emperor, leaving only Emperor Qianlong. His seal should be more collectible.

After reading the list, Zhuang Rui looked up and said to Bass, "Mr. Bass, with all due respect, it seems that there is no work on this list in the booth of your museum..."

Although Zhuang Rui has not seen the physical objects of these things yet, in his heart, these objects can be called priceless treasures. Zhuang Rui doesn't know why the Jimei Museum doesn't wait for them to be exhibited. If it had appeared in the museum, I believe it would have spread out in China long ago.

"Cough, Mr. Zhuang, you know, there are tens of thousands of works of art from the East in our museum, but there are not so many booths. This... So there are many collections that have no chance to appear in the museum...

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Bass. After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Jimei coughed unnaturally a few times. In fact, his words were only half of the reason. Jimei Museum is indeed rich in collections, but the main reason why these oil paintings and jade seals are not displayed in the museum is that the museum does not attach great importance to it.

Europeans have never appreciated Chinese ancient paintings. In their opinion, those more abstract paintings have no beauty to speak of. The characters are the same. They can't see their facial expressions clearly, and the landscape paintings are also vague and hazy, which is unrecognizable. They are far less beautiful than the European realistic painting school. Comfortable.

So in the early years, the price of ancient Chinese paintings was not very high in the international market, and foreign collectors did not pay much attention to the collection of Chinese paintings. Even if there were, they were mostly collected by some Chinese abroad.

It was not until some Chinese oil painting masters, such as Chen Sufei, have emerged in the international market in recent years that ancient paintings have also been highly praised, and have begun to be hyped by speculators in the international art market.

On the contrary, Chinese bronzes, jade and Buddha statues have always been highly respected by foreign collectors, so the opportunity for these objects to be exhibited is far greater than those calligraphy and paintings, so most of what Zhuang Rui saw in Jimei's objects is these things.

These Qing Palace collections donated by Fre, to put it unpleasantly, have been stored in the warehouse of the Jimei Museum for more than half a century. If it hadn't been for Zhuang Rui's request this time, I'm afraid it would have been half a century. I don't know if I can see the sun?

I heard Bass. After Jimei's words, Zhuang Rui and Huang Fuyun looked at each other, and their hearts were like mirrors. These actions of the Jimei Museum fully showed that these cultural relics did not occupy such an important position in their hearts.

After thinking about it, Zhuang Rui put the daylight on Bath and said, "Mr. Bass, these calligraphy and paintings donated by Frey were plundered from our country's Yuanmingyuan. I think they can be part of this transaction. In addition, I also want to select some of the works of art exhibited in your museum. A few pieces, what do you mean?

Hearing Zhuang Rui's trading chips, Bass, who had a relaxed expression, sat up straight, but with Zhuang Rui's words, his eyebrows also frowned tightly.

"Mr. Zhuang, how many Picasso's works can you take out for this collection exchange?"

As soon as Zhuang Rui opened his mouth, he had to exchange all the items donated by Frey, and also asked to select a few pieces of art in the collection, which is unacceptable to Bass. You know, the antiques placed in the museum for exhibition are the essence of the boutique. Even if Bass is willing, I'm afraid there will be different in the board The sound.

"Five!"

Zhuang Rui stretched out a slap and said, "I will take out five of Mr. Picasso's sketches in exchange for these 8 pieces of Chinese art donated by Frey. In addition, in the museum, I have to choose three things..."

"Oh, no... impossible, my God, Mr. Zhuang, your proposal is simply robbery, which is absolutely impossible..."

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Bass. Jimei suddenly stood up from the sofa with an incredible expression on his face. Although he intended to give up those Frey's donations, he never thought that Zhuang Rui Niran was only willing to give five Picasso sketches.

This and Bass. Jimei's psychological expectations are a little too different.

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