Yang Jing is very satisfied with Mike Ale's work, and these precious antique relics and artworks in front of him are enough to prove that Mike Ale has not slackened in the past two years.
In the vault of a Swiss bank in Cayman, Yang Jing saw 16 oil paintings, all of which were from some famous painters in Europe and the United States, but the number of works by American painters was the largest.
Among these oil paintings, there are many works by Andrew Wise, the most famous American painter in the last century, works by Henri Matisse, a famous Fauvist painter on the same level as Picasso, works by Simon Oue, the main representative of famous French courtist art in the first half of the 17th century, and the works of Norman Rockwell, an American realist painter who had just died three years after his death in this era, and the works of Albert Bierstadt, the most famous American landscape painter in the last century And what surprised Yang Jing the most was that Mike Ale even bought a Picasso work "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".
This is a remarkable work, and the dimensions of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are 244 centimeters and 234 centimeters, which is one of Picasso's rare large-scale works.
It's just that Yang Jing knew that this work should have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but he didn't know why it was bought by Mike Ale.
Seeing that Yang Jing was interested in this painting, Mike Aller said with a smile: "This painting was sold in June this year when I learned that there was a Picasso auction in Cannes, so I rushed over and finally bought the painting for $12 million."
This painting is also the one I have spent the most money on in the past two years. ” "Only $12 million?"
Yang Jing asked with some surprise.
"What's wrong?
12 million is already expensive, okay?
Mike Aller said with some excitement, "I still bid with many people to auction it, if you hadn't given me so much money, this painting would not have reached my hands at all, and I still have all the procedures for the auction at that time." ” Yang Jing raised a hand and said, "I'm sorry, Mike, I didn't mean that, you may have misunderstood me."
I was just amazed at how cheap the painting was, only $12 million. ” In 2015, Picasso's Les Demos in Algiers (O version) fetched a whopping $17.9 billion at Christie's New York, the most expensive painting in Picasso's life.
However, this "Woman of Algiers (O version)" is generally inferior to the work "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in terms of size and artistry.
It's just that the work "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" has always been treasured by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and no one knows what the sky-high price it will be if this work is auctioned.
Yang Jing carefully looked at the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", and in the lower right corner of the painting, he saw some unusual signatures - Picasso, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", first edition.
Discovering these words, Yang Jing suddenly realized.
Picasso painted tens of thousands of works in his lifetime, which has a lot to do with the fact that he often painted the same painting several times, such as the "Woman of Algiers", a total of 15 paintings painted by Picasso.
Since Picasso had this habit, it is not surprising that this painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is painted in two.
The most important thing is that this painting is still the first edition, which is even rarer, and its value is even higher than that of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in New York!
But now the painting is in the hands of Mike Aller, and the price is only $12 million, which is a bit of a surprise.
However, Yang Jing then thought about it and was relieved, it was only 1981, and Picasso had only died for less than ten years, at this time the price of Picasso's works was far less high than that of later generations, and 12 million US dollars was an absolute huge amount of money in this era.
To put it mildly, in 1981, $12 million was definitely no worse than $1.2 billion thirty years later!
"Boss, I love the job you gave me, but it also bothers me."
Looking at Yang Jing admiring the sixteen oil paintings there, Mike Ale began to complain on the side.
"Huh?
What's wrong?
Can spending money also make you feel distressed?
Yang Jing turned his head and asked with a smile.
"Sometimes it's a distress to have too much money to spend, and that's exactly what I'm trying to say."
Mike Aller shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Boss, I have a lot of money in my hand that I can spend at will, this is really a kind of happiness, but in the same way, you gave me too much money, and you set me the goal of spending 100 million dollars a year, but now, two years have passed, and I still have 70 million dollars and I don't know where to spend it."
Yang Jing no longer admired those oil paintings, but patted Mike Ale on the shoulder and said: "Mike, don't worry about these things, how much can you spend, I am very satisfied with what you are doing now, so, in the next few years, I hope you can continue to do this, and strive to acquire more oil paintings like this."
"Boss, are you going to invest in art?"
Mike Aller thought about it for a while, and then finally asked the question in his heart.
Yang Jing smiled and said: "You can also think the same way, in fact, in this situation, investing in art is also a very good investment project." ” "Okay, boss, this kind of investment, that is, only a billionaire like you can afford to play, I can only serve you" Yang Jing smiled and said, "How did you do with the other thing I told you?"
” "You mean Huaxia Yanjing?"
Yang Jing nodded.
After the last London gold investment, when Yang Jing was about to leave the Cayman Islands, he discussed with Mike Ale and formulated a plan called "Yanjing Operation", and now Yang Jing is asking about the implementation of this plan.
"It's going well over there.
As you said, China is in dire need of dollars right now, and I've been there twice, and I've really experienced that urgency. ” After a pause, Mike Ale continued: "I went to Yanjing last summer as you ordered, and I have to say that it is really a beautiful and quaint city.
Mike Aller praised, "And the authorities over there really need dollars, I just said to the local government, when I told the local government that the Dragon Fund was ready to invest 10 million US dollars in public welfare funds to invest in the Three-North Shelterbelt, it immediately alarmed the senior leaders, and when I transferred 10 million US dollars to the designated account, a deputy prime minister over there even personally came forward to meet with me, this is the first time I have met with such a high-level leader, I am very excited." ” Yang Jing thought to himself: "Can you not alarm the senior leaders?"
In the late 70s and early 80s, China's demand for foreign exchange was at its strongest, and that period was also the period when China's foreign exchange reserves were the lowest.
If nothing else, let's just say that in 1980 last year, China's dollar reserves were less than $100 million, and even in 1981, China's dollar reserves were only $2.7 billion.
Letting Mike Ale throw out the 10 million US dollars was definitely a great amount of foreign exchange for Huaxia at that time. ” Mike Aller was still a little excited, "When His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister received me, I promised to invest another 20 million US dollars, and what I wanted to do in Yanjing became extremely simple. ” "I did what you said, and bought a huge manor house near a lake behind that famous imperial city.
The estate was so big, I estimated it to be at least 25,000 square feet, because I bought it in dollars and it only cost me $500,000.
Oh Maiga, I can't imagine that such a large estate would only require such a small amount of money.
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However, the manor was so dilapidated that I invested a full two million dollars to renovate it, and now I guess the manor has been repaired. ” For Mike Ale, the courtyard house covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters is a manor.
Hearing this, Yang Jing nodded with satisfaction.
When Yang Jing crossed over to London last month to invest in London, he took the time to go to Yanjing and stayed in Yanjing for more than a week, in fact, he was looking for a suitable courtyard house.
Because the Holy Ring once said that as long as the property rights of those quadrangles in the original time and space belonged to the public or foreigners, then Yang Jing would not cause a space-time paradox if he bought them in time and space, so Yang Jing chose the most famous quadrangle in the original time and space.
The courtyard house is located on the northern edge of Houhai, just a small road away from Houhai.
In 2007, a Russian oil tycoon paid 1.1 billion yuan for the most expensive courtyard house in Yanjing.
Even if that set of courtyard houses is put in 2017, it is the top courtyard in Yanjing.
With an area of more than 3,000 square meters, it is also the largest among the private courtyards within the second ring road of Yanjing, and that set of courtyards is said to be worth more than 1.5 billion yuan in 2017.
With such a good yard, Yang Jing naturally didn't want it to fall into the hands of foreigners.
Damn, you old hairy man went to the capital of our country and bought the best courtyard house in our capital, how can we be embarrassed?
Therefore, Yang Jing naturally set his sights on the set of Hai courtyard houses that could be called sky-high prices in later generations.
However, Yang Jing still doesn't plan to make a move himself, this kind of thing involving various property rights in the original time and space, it is safest to let Mike Ale make a move.
However, for this set of yards, Yang Jing did not pay nothing.
Of course, this kind of payment is nothing for Yang Jing.
He used the name of the Evil Dragon Fund to invest $30 million in the development of the Three-North Shelterbelt, which itself is of a public welfare nature.
Yang Jing knows very well what the environment of Yanjing will be like in the future, and now that he has made a lot of money from foreigners, he feels that it is quite meaningful to give back to his motherland.
I didn't have this ability before, but now I have this ability, as a descendant of Chinese Yan and Huang, Yang Jing thinks it is necessary to repay the environmental protection cause of his motherland.
The most important thing is that with this kind of pure public welfare investment, it will be more convenient for Mike Aller to do things in China.
Using the money earned from foreigners to contribute to the environmental protection of their own country, and by the way, making it easier for them to do things is simply killing two birds with one stone.
If it weren't for this $30 million public welfare investment, Mike Ale would have wanted to buy that courtyard house in Yanjing, let alone buy some old objects in Yanjing.
And now with this investment, Mike Ale not only easily bought the courtyard, but Yang Jing explained to him that he would buy old objects in that era, and it was also going well.
Although Yang Jing has not seen those old objects, through Mike Ale's introduction, he knows that the formulated "Yanjing Operation" plan is still very smooth.
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