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Western antiques are not like our Chinese antiques, with many miscellaneous items. In addition to top-notch porcelain, there are also calligraphy and paintings, various jewelry and jade, four treasures of the study, royal imperial treasures and other miscellaneous items.

Their antiques are mainly divided into several categories. The first group is oil painting, then antique furniture, followed by antique jewelry, then sculpture works, and then some miscellaneous items such as coins, clocks and other miscellaneous items.

Among all categories, the most widely accepted oil painting is oil painting, and it can even be said that oil painting works are the crowns of Western antiques.

The reason for saying this is that oil paintings have a very effective value evaluation standard or system compared to other types of Western antiques.

Works of famous artists, scarce works, works with special artistic value and historical value, are all effective value judgment criteria for judging whether an oil painting is precious.

You can find such characteristics in many oil paintings, and those world-class famous paintings even combine many characteristics.

Such evaluation criteria are too strict for other Western antiques. In addition to top antique furniture, jewelry, clocks, and coins, many of the more ordinary Western antiques do not have such characteristics.

This is the main reason why these Western antiques are not as popular as oil paintings in the market.

For example, the Roman sculptures that Jin Muchen had seen before, except for the ancient Roman works and have very special historical value, you can't find other works such as works by famous artists, scarce works, special artistic values, and even who the sculptures are carved.

Therefore, the value of such sculptures cannot be compared with the oil paintings collected here.

Moreover, those things are too big and inconvenient to carry, which is also the main reason why Jin Muchen gave up on them and went straight to these oil paintings.

The oil paintings here are rare hard currency compared to other Western antiques.

From the west building, Jin Muchen headed straight to the Monet Works Exhibition Hall on the first floor of the east side. This is the second largest Monet painting collection hall outside France in the world, with about forty authentic works of Monet.

Needless to say, Mone's fame is not inferior to Picasso's famous European Impressionist oil painting master. Many of his works, especially the "Water Lily" series, which he is best at, can be sold at high prices for tens of millions of dollars whenever he gets a casual copy on the market.

So his works are not to be missed. You should know that some time ago, the Boston Art Museum conducted a small survey, and that the works of Western Impressionist painters in their museum are the most popular.

Among the top ten works, Mone's works alone were selected for four, including a painting "Water Lily" he painted in 1907, and his "Bolivar Saint-Denis in Winter", etc., a total of four.

Jin Muchen estimated that the total price of these works would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thinking of the Boston Art Museum's use of all means to plunder so many treasures from our China over the past hundred years, Jin Muchen thought, how could they have to let them get some blood out, right?

There is a special exhibition hall on the east side of the first floor. When Jin Muchen came to check out the site a few days ago, he visited it several times. It was not as if it was an exhibition hall, but it was actually more like a cave.

The arched door inside looks like an arched corridor. There are no windows, and more than 40 works of Mone are hung on the walls at both ends of the corridor, against the backdrop of beige wallpaper. It looks quite stylish.

But after today, these Mone's famous paintings will always say goodbye to the Boston Art Museum. When Jin Muchen thought of this, it was a revenge for the art museum, he felt excited.

After doing this, I may be considered the most famous art thief in world history, right?

When Jin Muchen thought of this title, he couldn't help but feel a little funny. He quickly moved his feet through the hall in the middle and came to the Western oil painting exhibition area on the first floor of the East Building.

However, when he arrived at the Mone Oil Painting Exhibition Hall that he had been to the previous few days, he was stunned because this corridor similar to the shape of a cave was locked.

That's right, there is a thick iron gate at the entrance of the exhibition hall. What's going on?

When I came a few days ago, I didn’t notice that there was an iron gate in this exhibition hall?

He reached out and touched the thick iron gate. Jin Muchen tentatively pushed it, and immediately gave up the idea of ​​relying on violence to break in.

This iron door can be at least ten centimeters thick and is electronically controlled. It is usually hidden in the mezzanine between the walls. When the building is closed at night, there will be special staff to lock the two iron doors.

And it seems that this iron door should be specially connected to an electronic alarm system. If you break in, you will be very willing to attract police and security guards.

Damn, it seems that the people from the Boston Art Gallery are not too stupid. Do you still know the value of these Monet's works, so you have added a special protection system here.

Unexpectedly, after thinking about it for several days, the first goal of Western oil painting was that I had not succeeded in this way!

However, Jin Muchen quickly adjusted his frustration. You should know that the twenty or thirty exhibition halls on the first floor on the east side, not every exhibition hall is like this Mone Special Hall, with such an electronic iron gate.

Mone's works are not available, but there are many works by other European oil painting masters here.

For example, the Impressionist painting, which was rated as the most popular Impressionist painting by American art lovers in the Boston Art Gallery, was hanged on the wall of the exhibition hall next to the Monet Gallery.

Jin Muchen came to the front of the painting and looked at the back of the painting before taking action. As expected, like the Eastern Department China Pavilion, there was no contact with the alarm system behind the frame.

It seems that the Boston Art Gallery is really too proud and thinks no one dares to touch the ground on Tai Sui's head.

Since everyone has cooperated so well, if Jin Muchen is polite, it will be too hypocritical. Take the oil paintings of small areas directly, wrap them, and stuff them into the travel bag behind them.

After taking this picture, continue to plunder.

Edgar Degas's "Four-Year-Old Dancer", Mary Cassatt's "In the Box", Renoir's "Girl Picking Flowers in the Grass", Camille Bilosa's "Two Peasant Women on the Grass", Gustav Caybert's "Fruit Exhibition", and the ten most popular impressionist oil paintings in the Boston Art Gallery selected by contemporary Americans, except for Mone's four pairs, were all taken by Jin Muchen.

The collection of oil paintings here is calculated based on hundreds of thousands of paintings. Jin Muchen has also made up for knowledge about Western oil painting before, but after all, Western oil painting has been developing for hundreds of years, and he has only been studying for a few months, which can only be considered a first-time understanding of the skin.

And even though he knew that the most popular Impressionist paintings are now, there are tens of thousands of Impressionist paintings here, and there are less than ten thousand works by famous masters.

Of course, he could not take away all of these ten thousand Impressionist paintings. He could only choose the most exquisite ones to take away, but how could he know that those paintings are the most outstanding among these paintings?

This is thanks to the vote of the American people, otherwise Jin Muchen would have really been fooled.

He took away six of the ten most popular Impressionist oil paintings, and although he did not have the four of Mone's, he was already satisfied.

But this is not enough. You should know that the oil paintings exhibited in this art gallery are not only valuable for these impressionist paintings, but also by many other style masters.

For example, the self-portrait of the famous French artist Paul Cézanne painted his wife, "Madame Cézanne sitting in a red armchair", the unit price of this painting is no less than 100 million yuan, and it is still US dollars. How could Jin Muchen miss it?

You should know that before coming, he learned in detail through the Internet and magazines that the most valuable Western oil paintings in this art gallery and this work by Cezanne are among them. Although they cannot enter the top ten, they are also among the top.

For example, Jin Muchen has read the painting "Concert" by Yang Furmeer, who is also known as the Three Musketeers of the Dutch painter, and Jin Muchen has read it in a magazine.

It was the fund owner of a certain family behind the Boston Art Gallery. It was sold at an auction. It was in the late 1990s. At that time, the painting was sold at a sky-high price: 250 million US dollars!

When he saw this amount, Jin Muchen once wondered if he had seen it wrong.

How much is a painting worth $250 million in the late 1990s?

Jin Muchen doesn't know much about the estimation of the appreciation system of oil paintings, but he thought that this painting is worth at least more than 300 million US dollars now.

To be honest, when I used to play with Chinese antiques, I thought that exquisite porcelains worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan were already very valuable, but in fact, when it was put on the international market, compared with the king oil paintings of foreign antiques, it was just a witch.

Of course, Jin Muchen was not polite about this oil painting. He took it off from the wall, wrapped it, and put it in the travel bag behind him.

The work he was going to get next, according to the magazine, the value of this painting is even higher than the price of the "Concert" he won before.

Because this painting is a very rare self-portrait of Rembrow, this guy is a Dutch painter who is as famous as Van Gogh and Furmeer.

His life experience is a little better than Van Gogh, but not too much. He was relatively ordinary when he was alive, and even miserable in his later years. But after his death, especially after his own paintings were discovered, he became famous! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!