Chapter 438: Sweeping New York Autumn Auction (Asking for a Monthly Pass, Asking for a Recommendation)
The weather in New York is getting colder and colder, and the scenery on the streets is getting more and more bleak! Leaves are falling everywhere, and the west wind is tight!
Autumn is quietly leaving, and the footsteps of winter are already clearly audible!
But in the major auction houses in New York, it is hot, like the height of summer!
Heavyweight antique artworks continue to emerge at various auctions, and the bidding is very hot, and the top antique artworks sold at sky-high prices abound!
In this autumn, Ye Tian has become the biggest star of the New York autumn auction!
At this time, he is the focus of attention no matter where he goes!
Many media reporters are frantically chasing news about him, as well as his heavyweight antique artworks.
And many collectors and art investors who participated in the New York Autumn Auction are also keeping an eye on him to see how he will relate to the sky-high price of antique art!
In the days after two of Paul Cézanne's top oil paintings were sold at sky-high prices, shaking the entire art collecting market, several more top-quality antique artworks belonging to Ye Tian were sold one after another.
Without exception, the hammer prices of these top antique artworks are sky-high, shaking the New York market again and again, shaking the entire antique art collection field, and making everyone jaw-dropping!
On the morning of the fourth day of the autumn auction in New York, at the special auction of 'European porcelain and craftsmanship' held in the Rockefeller Building, the first Portland vase replica of Wicky Wood, the British official kiln, in 1790, was successfully auctioned.
This is the first successful replica of the Portland vase in history, and it took three years and countless manpower and material resources to achieve extraordinary artistic value and market value!
When this vase appeared at auction, it was immediately chased and enthusiastically chased by European and American antique art collectors, and the competition was extremely fierce!
Ye Tian set a reserve price of $30 million for this European antique vase, and the final transaction price was $56 million, putting a small satellite!
The person who took this vase was a famous collector from the United Kingdom, and this antique vase originally from the United Kingdom can be regarded as a return to his hometown!
In the evening of the same day, a 'Pop Art' evening auction was held at Sotheby's Building, and at this auction, Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe" in Ye Tian's hand was also successfully sold!
The reserve price of this famous painting was $22 million, and the final price was $67 million, which was the most expensive artwork of the night, and once again shook the New York autumn auction market!
After the hammer was sold, this painting of Marilyn Monroe, which was obtained from a Pittsburgh restaurant, broke into the top 10 of Andy Warhol's art auction records, ranking 7th!
For this price, Ye Tian was not particularly satisfied.
You know, in 2007, Andy Warhol's other "Marilyn Monroe" once sold for a sky-high price of 80 million US dollars!
Who knew that in the past so many years, the price of Andy Warhol's works with the same theme has fallen instead of rising, which is really depressing!
This is also the case with Andy Warhol's work, which is the world's largest art dealer! There are so many works that it is a bit of a fool!
Although Ye Tian was not very satisfied with the price of this hammer, the rest of the people who participated in this auction with him were very satisfied!
The moment the hammer was sold, they immediately began to cheer and celebrate, and their excitement was almost crazy!
These guys are Jason and Sophie, Walker and Raymond, and Betty!
When he received this "Marilyn Monroe" at the restaurant in Pittsburgh, Ye Tian promised that each of them would receive 2% of the auction proceeds of the painting as a reward for cooperating with the act at that time!
The transaction price of "Marilyn Monroe" is 67 million US dollars, and after deducting commissions, how can there be nearly 60 million US dollars! 2% reward per person, that is more than 1 million US dollars!
In the blink of an eye, he has become a millionaire, can these guys not be ecstatic?
Seeing that they were so excited and excited, Ye Tian didn't care too much about the low price of "Marilyn Monroe", and after the auction ended, he immediately took these guys to the carnival!
Two days later, on the 7th day of the New York Autumn Auction, the "American Contemporary Art" auction kicked off at the Rockefeller Building!
In this auction, Ye Tian had two more heavyweight artworks sold at sky-high prices, bringing him a large sum of green dollars!
The first is the work of the famous American illustrator Norman Nockville, a hand-painted movie promotional poster for "A Streetcar Named Desire"!
Ye Tian set a reserve price of $15 million for the painting, with a starting price of $8 million.
In the end, the painting sold for $41 million, which is an ideal price!
After all, this is just a hand-painted movie poster, not as good as a top oil painting, and there are relatively few collectors, so it is not as sought after as a top oil painting!
This hand-drawn movie poster was taken by MOMA, who is also in New York!
The financiers of the Museum of Modern Art in New York are the Rockefeller family, and they are never short of money! They are one of the main buyers of modern and contemporary art in the New York auction market! This time they have made a contribution to Ye Tian!
Jackson Pollock's 1950 masterpiece of Abstract Expressionism, Autumn Colors, 20 was also sold in this sale, and it was the finale!
When Autumn Colours, 20 was released in Birmingham, it immediately shocked the entire art collecting world, leaving everyone stunned and exclaimed!
The appearance of this painting breaks people's perception of the number of Pollock's works, this is a completely new painting, no one has ever seen it!
Moreover, it is also a work of Pollock in 1950, which not only has extraordinary artistic value and market value, but also has great research value!
From the day this top-notch piece of art came out, it has attracted a lot of attention!
Most of them are famous collectors and art investors who are interested in contemporary art, Pollock's work, and museums such as MOMA!
These guys are keeping an eye on this top work of art, waiting for the day when the painting will be unveiled at the New York Autumn Auction for public auction!
As long as this painting is unveiled, these people will definitely do everything in their power to compete for this top work of art, even if they go bankrupt!
In addition to the artistic factor, there is also an important reason why people are so crazy, the price of Pollock's works has been soaring rapidly in recent years, almost one price a year!
What's more, Pollock's works are very small, and at his peak in 1950, he only created three paintings, which is a very high investment value!
Unlike Andy Warhol, who can make thousands of copies a year, and most of them are repetitive, who the hell can reason with?
For this Pollock painting, Ye Tian is full of confidence, and he is very sure that this top-level painting will definitely bring him a huge surprise!
As a result, he set an unusually high reserve price for the painting, up to $75 million!
Sotheby's also attached great importance to this painting, not only did it promote it in all aspects, but also placed it at the end of the "American Contemporary Art" auction, and it appeared in the finale!
The scene after the auction started was completely in line with Ye Tian and Sotheby's expectations, and the competition was extremely fierce!
The starting bid for this painting was $35 million, and from the moment the auctioneer shouted the first bid, the entire auction hall was completely set on fire!
Famous collectors and art investors from all over the world, as well as famous museums, competed fiercely at the auction site!
With the competition in full swing, everyone participating in the auction is going almost crazy!
In the mouths of these guys, dollars are like waste paper!
After more than 30 rounds of fierce bidding, the final sale price of this Pollock painting fell to a high of $195 million!
With just $5 million short, this painting can break the record for the highest sale for a Pollock work!
If you take the 12% buyer's premium, the painting would immediately surpass $200 million, leaving Pollock's auction record far behind!
The buyer of this Pollock painting is a famous American billionaire and a well-known art collector!
After the hammer of this special auction, there is a new top art on the top 10 list of world art auction records, and it ranks 4th!
What's more, it's another piece of art flowing from Steven's bastard!
Three of the world's top 10 art auction records were sold at high prices, ranking second, third, and fourth on the list!
In addition to these top works of art that have been sold for over 100 million dollars, Steven's bastard also has a lot of antique artworks in his hands that are more than 10 million dollars!
The autumn auction has never been interrupted in the past few days, and the news comes from various auction venues!
Almost everyone was stunned when they heard this!
At this time, everyone is extremely convinced that Steven's bastard is definitely the biggest winner of this year's New York autumn auction!
The New York Times report was right, this was Steven's New York fall auction season alone!
The media was completely detonated!
Ye Tian has naturally become the hottest news figure in New York nowadays, being chased by countless media reporters, and also making people in the field of art collecting envious!
During this period, Ma Ye and the others returned to New York and participated in the special auction of Chinese antique porcelain, contributing a lot of money to Ye Tian.
Next, they went to Philadelphia for a special auction of Chinese antique art!
Subsequently, on the evening of the 6th day of the autumn auction in New York, several of them left the United States together and flew back to Beijing!
Before leaving, Ye Tian got together with a few old men again!
In addition to eating and chatting about their respective gains, everyone also discussed the cooperation matters, and basically determined the articles of cooperation and the way of trading!
In the future treasure hunt, if Ye Tian finds good Chinese antique artworks, he will give priority to selling them to these people, and will no longer go through the auction house, so as not to be picked up by these guys separately!
This way of trading can also avoid being skinned by the US government, and those bastards of the IRS are definitely the most murderous robbers in the world!
For the sake of safety, to avoid being discovered by the bandits of the IRS, and to avoid being betrayed! Ye Tian designed a set of thorough transaction procedures, and only then did he reach a cooperation agreement with several old men!
A few days have passed in the blink of an eye, and the autumn auction in New York is almost over.
On Sunday, Ye Tian and Betty came to Sotheby's again.
Welcome to another heavyweight auction!