A total of twelve sketches of beautiful women were selected from the first carton. Li Mo began to check the second carton. This second carton looked very old, with some greasy dirt on the surface, and the sketches inside also had dirt on the surface. Ashes, I don’t know where they were found from, and they were directly moved to the market for sale without being cleaned.
He took out a stack of them and looked through them one by one. Juliet was speechless. There were many tourists passing by, and they all looked at her with half-smiling looks.
Li Mo picked out twenty-four sketches of beautiful women from the second carton, and then slowly picked out eleven sketches of beautiful women from the third carton. Finally, he stacked them all together and waved to the boss. He shouted: "Including the five sketches at the beginning, there are a total of fifty-two sketches. Do you want to count the specific number again, right?"
Juliet translated simultaneously.
The boss shook his head and was too lazy to get up and count again.
"The total is 10,400 euros. I'd like to ask him if he can just round it up, even if he gives me two sketches of beautiful women."
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Li Mo cut the price, and Juliet looked at him strangely. Does it make sense to cut four hundred euros? However, she still translated it truthfully. The boss frowned slightly and glanced at Li Mo unhappily.
Li Mo cooperatively put a stack of sketches of beauties on the ground, pretending to be indifferent and said: "I don't have to buy them. After all, when you get tired of looking at these sketches, you can only throw them into the fireplace and burn them. Juliet, we Walk."
Seeing that he really didn't care, the old man hurriedly sat up and waved and shouted a few words.
After a while, Li Mo paid the cash and left with a stack of sketches of beautiful women. The boss then grinned, and a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties walked out of a shop facing him. He and the boss were probably in the same group. The two of them gave half of the 10,000 euros in cash to each other. Within two minutes, I saw the middle-aged man carrying another cardboard box from the shop and showing the sketches of five beauties.
"Mr. Li, didn't you see the proud look of that boss in the end? It's obvious that you lost a lot of money, so you bought some sketches for 10,000 euros and went back to enjoy them. If you like European beauties, I'll give it to you in just one sentence. As for the arrangement, I guarantee that you will be satisfied, it’s no problem if you want as many as you want.”
Juliet was inexplicably angry.
Li Mo turned to look at her and said in confusion: "When did I say I like European beauties?"
"If you don't like it, then why did you buy dozens of nude sketches of European beauties? Are you a psychopath?"
"You are a psychopath."
Li Mo didn't give her a good look. He rummaged through a pile of sketches and pulled out sixteen sketches. Then he put the remaining sketches into her hands and said calmly: "Find a place to throw them away."
"You just bought it and threw it away. You bought it for fun... Mr. Li, is what you have left in your hand a masterpiece left by a certain master?"
Juliet reacted fairly quickly. She had never seen Li Mo's tricks, so she couldn't understand his strange approach.
"You are not stupid. You finally reacted now."
Li Mo laughed loudly and gave her one of the sketches: "You have done some research on European art. Can you tell whose masterpiece this is?"
Juliet hurriedly stuffed the waste paper in her hands into a trash can on the roadside, and then stayed under the big tree on the roadside to look carefully. It's hard to say how good this sketch is. You can choose many better ones from the sketches you just threw away. But there must be a reason why Li Mo left it. Juliet looked down from the sketch and saw a signature in the lower right corner of the painting. He was stunned for a moment, standing there a little stunned. Then he rubbed his eyes, brought the sketch close to his eyes and looked at it carefully, his face gradually showed a look of excitement and surprise.
"Did you see it?"
Li Mo didn't know what the signature in the lower right corner meant. The gestures were very coherent, like drawing circles. But his strange child told him that these sixteen sketches were of great origin, and each one could be said to be priceless.
Juliet nodded repeatedly, and her eyes fell on the remaining sketches in Li Mo's hand.
"Give it to me after you finish it."
Li Mo automatically ignored her strange look and took the sketch from her hand. Juliet didn't want to let go, but she hesitated and let go again.
"Today is a good day. It's a great victory. It's magnificent."
Juliet saw him walking down the street with the sketch like this. There were so many people coming and going. What if he accidentally damaged it? It was a masterpiece by the greatest European art master of the last century.
She looked around, bought an ancient folder from a stall, then trotted after Li Mo and said a little nervously: "Mr. Li, put all the masterpieces in the folder, it's safer. "
"Thanks."
After Li Mo finished, he stuffed the folder into his backpack. Juliet was a little jealous, he had a total of sixteen in his hand, why didn't he generously give one to himself.
"What are you thinking about?" Li Mo turned to ask her, "You haven't told me which top master left this masterpiece?"
"Mr. Li, you.
. you.
Don’t you know the origin of these sketches? "
"I don't know. If I knew, why would I show it to you?"
Li Mo said matter-of-factly.
Juliet was a little dumbfounded. You didn’t know whose masterpiece these were, so how could you sort them out from those three cartons? In order to deceive others, he also bought dozens of other sketches at the same time.
"Don't look at me like that. It's like eating. I just need to know that this meal is delicious. Do I have to know who made this dish? I have to know what is used. Raw materials? No, no, no, no need at all. So as long as I know that these sketches are valuable and have great artistic value, I don’t need to think about other things."
Juliet was really convinced at this moment. Could this be the 'picking up the leak' that he had mentioned before?
"This is a masterpiece left by the master Picasso."
"Picasso?"
Li Mo's eyes moved slightly. He had heard the name of this master, but he didn't know much about his life.
"Juliet, I heard that Picasso left behind thousands of sketches. From this point of view, the value of the sixteen sketches in my hand may be greatly reduced."
"No, no, it's the same sketch, but the model is different, and its meaning is also different, so the value is also very different. Mr. Li, the Picasso sketch in your hand still needs to be appraised by a professional. But no matter who the model is, as long as It is a masterpiece left by the master Picasso, and its value is not cheap. It is rare to encounter Picasso's works on the market today, and almost all of them are collected by major museums, top wealthy people, and top foundations. Mr. Li, can you You can't transfer a few paintings to me, you can set the price as you like, I will never counter-offer."
"I have no plans to sell it yet. Don't forget, I will soon have a European and American art museum in China. Master Picasso's masterpieces just happen to be stored in my private museum. It is simply the best home."
Except for twenty-one top-level works of art in Li Mo's European and American art museum, the rest are ordinary works of art. If we can find some more works by top European and American masters, then in the future the status of the museum will truly be comparable to that of Europe and the United States. Comparable to those museums.
