"You are lying! After I bought these paintings and brought them home, old Lugo, who often sketched with me, offered to buy my paintings for a hundred thousand, but I didn't even buy them for him." Zhang Junping showed a look of resentment.

, said with the expression you lied to me.

"Wait a minute. Maybe I didn't see it clearly just now. Let me take a look again!" The middle-aged man with braids quickly stopped Zhang Junping and said with a smile.

"Don't try to lie to me, I have asked several people." Zhang Junping said as if he was inexperienced in the world.

"Our Stuart Gallery has a history of a hundred years. How could Picasso... be lying to people? Don't worry, I will take a good look at it this time and I will definitely give you a high price." The middle-aged man with braids just mentioned Picasso and suddenly stopped.

, changed the topic and said.

"Okay! Take a look!" Zhang Junping handed the painting to the other party again.

"I have a good look this time!" The middle-aged man with braids was looking at the painting, but he was thinking about the appropriate price.

"How much do you want to sell it for?" The female clerk next to her saw the middle-aged man's embarrassment and approached Zhang Junping and asked softly.

"At least twenty million francs.

Although this painting is not by Picasso, it is a very high level of imitation.

It has high collection value." Zhang Junping no longer pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger, and directly spoke to break the luck mentality of the middle-aged man with pigtails.

After listening to Zhang Junping's words, the braided middle-aged man was not only not disappointed, but instead felt ecstatic.

Is this painting an imitation of Picasso?

"Your painting is indeed very good, even I saw it wrong just now.

You also said that this is imitation.

Twenty million is impossible!

How much does a genuine Picasso cost?

The most I can give you is two million francs."

"Not for sale!" Zhang Junping shook his head simply.

As he said this, he wanted to take the painting and leave.

This time it was the female clerk who stopped Zhang Junping and said, "Sir, don't worry, the price negotiation is naturally between you and me.

You give in a little, and my boss will give you a little more."

This female shop assistant can only be described as average-looking, but she has a good figure. The most important thing is that she has a good temperament, a kind of intellectual beauty, and a nice voice.

People can't help but feel close to her after listening to it.

"I'll give you one million francs! Nineteen million francs, this is the lowest."

"Five hundred francs, that's the highest price I can offer.

This is definitely not an authentic Picasso."

Zhang Junping tried to leave, but was persuaded by the female clerk to stop.

With the help of the female clerk, Zhang Junping finally sold four imitation Picasso oil paintings to the other party for 10 million francs each.

After signing the contract, Zhang Junping received a check for 40 million francs.

After leaving the gallery, Zhang Junping walked forward for a while. After checking that no one was following him, he turned and entered a public toilet.

After a few minutes, he came out with a roll of canvas.

Then he walked into another gallery and used the same method to sell to the other party four oil paintings imitating Picasso for eleven million francs each.

France is the capital of art, with hundreds of galleries, large and small.

Zhang Junping didn't eat at noon and was busy until the gallery closed in the evening before he sold more than 300 oil paintings.

The reason why I'm so anxious is to beat the time gap.

Although Zhang Junping sold it to the other party as a replica, and the contract did not state that it was a painting by Picasso or Leonardo da Vinci, it only said that it was a certain oil painting.

However, those bosses who buy paintings do not buy them as imitations.

In their hearts, they were sure that it was genuine and that's why they bought it so readily.

Otherwise, no matter how good the painting is, they will not give such a high price, or they will not accept the painting in cash, and at best they will sell it on consignment.

Consignment is the most common transaction model for galleries.

The painter puts his paintings in the gallery, and the gallery sells them on his behalf. After the paintings are sold, the gallery takes a certain percentage of the commission and gives the rest to the painter.

The reason why Zhang Junping was so anxious was that he was afraid that they would discover that these paintings were genuine imitations.

Although Zhang Junping's imitation is more realistic than the real thing, when hundreds of paintings by more than a dozen famous artists suddenly appear on the market, there must be problems.

It's either dirty or a fake.

Therefore, Zhang Junping rushed to sell all these paintings in one afternoon.

The next day, after breakfast, Zhang Junping went to the French branch of UBS with the check in his true self without makeup and deposited the check.

Put the check in your pocket first.

It was a great harvest this time, with 345 paintings and an average transaction price of about 10 million francs.

Total income was 3.45 billion francs.

I wonder if those gallery owners will vomit blood after knowing the truth of the matter.

After depositing the check, Zhang Junping took a taxi directly to the airport.

Buy a ticket and fly to Prussia.

Only a fool would stay in Paris and wait for revenge.

Even if they don't call the police, they won't just accept their bad luck.

These galleries can make so much money at once, and the bosses behind them are not simple people.

Until Zhang Junping arrived in Berlin, the incident in Paris was still brewing.

At this time, the big boss behind Stuart Gallery, George Fairburn, already knew that his gallery had received several fine oil paintings.

George Fairburn was naturally very happy.

After taking it back and admiring it for yourself, we started arranging butlers and getting ready for the party.

Alone Better Together.

The joy of collecting art is sharing.

In other words, it's about showing off and showing off.

The second is appreciation.

After giving the instructions, the housekeeper prepared for the party, and he started calling people to invite people to the party.

After making a few phone calls, George Fairburn felt something was wrong.

Because of several friends he called, they also received several fine oil paintings, all of which were works by famous modern and contemporary artists.

George Fairburn didn't bother to call again.

I took out the oil painting and studied it carefully again, but still found no problem.

The painting style, brushwork techniques, and even colors are all in line with Picasso's characteristics.

However, so many Picasso paintings suddenly appeared on the market.

Could it be that someone discovered the treasure left by Picasso?

Worried, George Fairborn called and invited several artists and appraisal experts he was familiar with to come over for appraisal.

After seeing the oil paintings, the artists' expressions were even more exaggerated than those of George Fairburne.

It is a kind of worship for a great artist.

Several appraisal experts found no problem at first.

Until an expert touched the oil painting with his hand and suddenly shouted: "What is this?"

One stone stirs up thousands of waves.

Everyone looked at the experts in confusion.

"Look, here, this seems to be a Chinese character."

"Chinese character?"

"Yes, Chinese characters! I previously studied Chinese ancient cultural relics and also did some research on Chinese characters.

Here, if you adjust the angle, you will see that there are two Chinese characters."

This discovery undoubtedly proves that these oil paintings are imitations.

Finding out it was a counterfeit was a bigger blow to those artists.

One of them claimed to be a student of Picasso.

As a teacher's student, he actually failed to tell whether the teacher's paintings were genuine or fake.
To be continued...