Treasure Hunt America

Chapter 108: Christie's and Sotheby's

Ask for collection, ask for recommendation!

****************

"By the way, now that you are rich, it's time to consider starting a family and starting a business. You can settle the house here earlier, and you'd better take your parents over to enjoy the happiness. I'm not saying that the country is not good, but a family Only when people are neat and tidy can this be like a home!"

Fang Bo said to Jin Muchen, who nodded.

"Well, when the holidays are over, I'll go to Manhattan to see and contact the real estate agent there."

"I think it's ok. Your kid started higher than me. Haha, you can go to Manhattan in a flash. It's a good place. It's a good place to do antique business. If there are more rich people, the market will naturally be good."

Fang Bo said with a smile, but Jin Muchen suddenly said at this time.

"Uncle Fang, I'm going to buy a big house in Manhattan this time, and I'm going to open a shop there. You can move to my place when I see it, so we can take care of each other. And I open an antique shop in Manhattan. As for the store, there is still a shortage of appraisers in the store. You also know that I am a young man with an unstable temperament and like to run around. There is always someone at home who helps to watch the store? Why don't you go and help me! "

Fang Bo listened to Jin Muchen's words, looked up at his serious eyes, and couldn't help feeling warm.

How could he not know about Jin Muchen's kindness?

He has no children and no daughters himself, and is now in his sixties. Although he looks healthy, he is old. First, he is afraid of loneliness, and second, he is afraid that there will be no one around to take care of him. Otherwise, no one will know when he falls ill that day.

Jin Muchen said that he asked him to help him, but in fact, didn't he just want him to come and help him in his retirement?

Thinking of this, Uncle Fang felt a warm feeling in his heart: "Okay, when your shop opens, Uncle Fang will go over and see for you."

They are all a family, and there is nothing to be hypocritical. When Jin Muchen heard Fang Bo agreed, he was also very happy, and the matter was settled.

After breakfast, it was already eleven o'clock. The two planned to go downstairs for a walk. Uncle Fang wanted to sit downstairs, while Jin Muchen planned to go out for a walk.

But I just came to the first floor, and before I got to the door, suddenly a shadow flashed outside the door, and a middle-aged man wearing a beige trench coat suddenly appeared at the door of the store.

Jin Muchen was taken aback by the guy who suddenly appeared, and then pointed to the "closed today" sign hanging at the door, indicating that he would not open the store for business today.

But the foreigner didn't mean to leave at all, but knocked on the door, motioning him to open the door and speak.

Jin Muchen opened the door in confusion, and the foreigner quickly took out a business card from his arms and handed it to Jin Muchen.

"Hello, sir, this is Andre. Carter is from Christie's."

"Christie's Company? We have nothing to do with you?"

"Ah! It's like this, sir. I saw this painting on the Internet. Did you hang it?"

While speaking, Andre took out a love pie from his leather bag, then opened the E-bay website and brought up a page, which happened to be the Hungarian painter Kas that Jin Muchen wanted to shoot on the website one day. Oil painting by Arnosh.

"Uh... yes, I hung it up."

"That's right, sir, we talked on the phone the other day, do you remember?"

When Andre said this, Jin Muchen only remembered that after putting the painting up for auction a few days ago, he received several inquiries the next day, all of them asking for details about the oil painting. Yes, he gave careful answers one by one. Several were very interested in the painting, and even asked his address, saying that after the New Year's Day holiday, he would like to come and see the painting in person.

Jin Muchen also told them the address, but originally thought that someone would come after the holiday, but I didn't expect that the holiday was still a few days away, so the Christie's person came first.

It feels like you have a house listed for sale online. You originally wanted to face the buyer directly, but you didn't expect the agent to come to the door first.

"Okay, let's talk about it first!"

Looking at Andre's red nose, it seemed that he had been outside for a long time. The temperature in New York was extremely low these days. Jin Muchen let him in first. Andre quickly thanked Jin Muchen, and then into the house.

I said hello to Fang Bo, and then took this Andre up to the second floor. The first floor is mainly the area of ​​​​the shop, and there is no space for meeting guests.

The area on the second floor is not small, in addition to the kitchen dining room, Fang Bo's bedroom and study, there is also a relatively large living room.

Jin Muchen brought Andre a cup of coffee, and the two took their seats.

"Mr. Jin, you must already know my intention. The purpose of my visit is for the oil painting. We at Christie's will have a special auction on oil painting in February. We are currently collecting auctions. I don't know if you have any Interested in sending this oil painting?"

In addition to being an appraiser, Andre's job at Christie's also has another task, which is to collect as many items as possible for auction. The nature is very similar to that of real estate agents pulling houses and bank tellers pulling deposits. .

Recently, due to the improvement of the U.S. economy, the auction market has not been active. Many wealthy people have invested their funds in the financial market. As more and more people make money, they have more cash. The less you need to cash out the antique treasures at home.

Therefore, for auction companies, there has been a shortage of auction items in the market recently.

And Sotheby's and Christie's are both headquartered in New York, and they compete fiercely for the market in this area.

Because the auction items are in short supply, the staff of the two companies cannot wait at home for customers to take the auction items and come to the door to ask for the auction. They will use various means to find things from various places, and then encourage the treasure owners to take things to their company. auction.

After all, when one company has a lot of auction items, and the other has nothing to auction, it can only reflect the strength of an auction company.

What's more, in the New York area, there are already many auction companies. In addition to these two giants, there are dozens of small and medium-sized auction companies in the United States, and dozens of overseas auction companies. They all eat at this market.

Whenever the economic performance is worse, it is often the happiest time for auction companies, because those treasure owners will come to them to auction and cash out with a lot of treasures.

If it was at that time, Christie's would not have sent someone over for such a small oil painting with a medium and low price, but now that the economic environment is very good and there is a shortage of lots, Christie's simply doesn't care. He was so reserved, and Andre didn't even care about the holidays, so he came to Jin Muchen to collect things. Because he received the wind yesterday, people from Sotheby's may come over today, so he Early in the morning, he was waiting at the door of Jin Muchen's shop.

"Well... this, I really didn't think about sending this painting for shooting..."

"Mr. Jin, you can't think so. Don't look at the size of this oil painting, but this is the work of Cass, a well-known European hyperrealist painter. Many people in the United States like this kind of work. If You leave it to us at Christie's, you can rest assured that we will definitely help you to get a good price..."

Andre gave Jin Muchen a sigh of relief, but Jin Muchen was really hesitant at this time.

At this moment, Fang Bo's voice suddenly came from downstairs: "Mu Chen, someone is looking for it!"

"Who?"

"I don't know, a Mr. Vince from Sotheby's?"

When Jin Muchen heard this, he rolled his eyes, and then shouted down at the entrance of the stairs.

"Okay, let him come up!"

With the corner of his eye, he glanced behind him quietly. When Andre, who was sitting behind him, heard the name of Vince, his expression changed, and his **** started to twist, as if he was very uncomfortable.

"Hey! Hello Mr. King, nice to meet you. I'm Vince Carrington from Sotheby's. We were on the phone."

A young Caucasian dressed in a casual suit quickly walked up the stairs. He looked in his mid-thirties, with a medium build and a kind smile. He introduced himself enthusiastically when he came up.

Jin Muchen smiled back at him, and then shook hands with him.

"Inside please~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Mr. Carrington."

"You're welcome, you'd better call me Vince. Oh! Look who I saw? Isn't that Andre? Hey, I heard you weren't doing well at Christie's? Why, haven't they fired you yet? ?"

This Vince just took two steps behind Jin Muchen when he saw Andre sitting in the living room, and quickly opened his mouth to say hello, but this time he greeted with a smile, but this greeting was not very friendly .

And Andre here is also not to be outdone.

"Who did I think it was? It's Sotheby's dog, Vince. Carrington, will your dog's nose be nice by then?"

"Haha, each other, each other."

This Vince was quite thick-skinned at that time. Hearing Andre say this, not only was he not angry at all, but he still looked complacent.

Andrew was older than this Vince, and at first glance he belonged to the old tradition. Seeing that Vince was not angry, he couldn't help but mock him again.

"Hmph, Sotheby's dogs are really thick-skinned. It seems that they are all trained by kissing their boss's ass. By the way, since you are doing so well at Sotheby's? What are you doing here? Mr. Jin's picture Painting, it doesn't seem worth it for you people at Sotheby's to fight!"

This Andre's counterattack, but Jin Muchen was stunned to see it, and it was full of gunpowder. It seemed that the grievance between him and this Vince was not small.

Being ridiculed by Andre with a gun and a stick, this Vince was not only not angry at all, but seemed to be proud of it.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like