Chapter 405 (2/2)
Resnais nodded Just as Qin Guan said, the first exhibit was a surprise
Cong Nianwei took the pieces of art out of the box one by one Lan Jin jureat opportunity Money! They are all worth a lot of money!
”These are Tantou New Year pictures They flourished at the end of the Ming Dynasty Ordinary people loved theht colors and pellucid, si”
”Chinese people traditionally purchased New Year pictures before the Spring Festival They were like the custoalleries”
”Oh, here it is!” Cong Nianwei showed Resnais a square wooden board
”This is another form of a New Year picture We call it a New Year wood-block print Artists used to carve a picture on a wooden board and print it out They were all three-dimensional”
”They have a history of hundreds of years These boards are the origins of the press Show Mr Resnais, Cong Nianwei!”
”No proble a thick rice paper over it
After 10 ently to reveal a beautiful picture of ”The Three Lucky Stars”
The calm, refinedtook an artist several years to complete These prints were h They also had an outlandish feeling to thealleries would love
Resnais went into art dealerto the artwork, he asked, ”How many do you have? Shall we have a talk about them?”
Qin Guan answered calinal, the one you have in your hand The finished products are 20 pieces I only have 10 Tantou New Year pictures Plus the mask you like 5,500 dollars in total”
Lan Jin nearly fell into the box
Liar! That's just a broken wooden board!
After debating about it, Resnais and Qin Guan reached a final price The allery reluctantly
That Chinesea multitude of Chinese artwork to the US art allery
A-level galleries sold only original artwork They were of high professional level, and most of them were members of the National Chinese Merchant Union They enjoyed a local influence in the US B-level galleries were inferior in comparison They sold copies of faalleries sold both artwork and other products