The process of shooting was much faster. After ten minutes, Ye Tian was already standing in front of the rows of steel exhibition shelves in the room and began to film the many artworks hanging on the shelves.
He was very familiar with the first painting and it was a top-level famous painting that he wanted to take as his own.
The image of the painting soon appeared on the screen of the mobile phone and Ye Tian's voice followed.
"Look, everyone, I believe everyone is very familiar with this painting. This is the "The Concert" by the famous painter Vermeer, which was stolen at the Gardner Museum in Boston on St. Patrick's Day in 1990!
Among all known stolen artworks, this is the most expensive painting! Regarding the authenticity of the painting, I can say with certainty that this is the original Vermeer, no doubt! ..."
This is one of the top art works that Ye Tian cares most about and what makes the most eye-catching. During the shooting, he still couldn't help but say a few more words!
After the shooting, he reluctantly moved his gaze away from this painting and looked at another famous painting next to it!
"What you see now is one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, Andrew Wise's outstanding work, "Autumn", created in 1943.
In 2011, this famous painting was stolen from a gallery in Houston. Since then, there has been no news. According to my research and appraisal, it is indeed Andrew Wise's original work, no doubt!"
Continue to the next one, which is a landscape painting, which makes people happy to look at!
The shooting begins and the explanation follows!
"This is a beautiful landscape painting from Corot, one of the three French landscape painters in the nineteenth century. The name of the painting is "Der Weg nach Sèvres".
In 1998, this painting was stolen at the Louvre in Paris. Corot is a master of art that I like very much. Based on my understanding of his paintings, I am sure that the landscape painting in front of me is absolutely authentic!"
"We saw another post-impressionist masterpiece. The painter is Paul Cézanne, the master artist who brought me luck and wealth. The title of this painting is "View of Auvers-sur-Oise".
This is a stolen top art piece that was stolen at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England in 1999. There is no doubt that this is the original one! I will never mistake Cézanne's paintings!"
Ye Tian spoke quickly while filming and kept giving the most accurate identification conclusions.
His footsteps stop and go and he has been moving forward along the display stand.
At this moment, he is like a fish swimming in the ocean of art, enjoying incomparable enjoyment and intoxicating eyes!
The only fly in the ointment is that he have to keep explaining and giving the appraisal conclusion and he can't stop talking for a moment. It's really hard!
After another ten or twenty minutes, he came to the third row of exhibition stands.
When he walked here, a surprise flashed across his eyes and his eyes became brighter! Direct light!
There is no other reason for this change. On this tall exhibition stand, there are several traditional Chinese ink landscape paintings!
These top artworks from the his homeland impressed him instantly and firmly attracted his attention.
He was very surprised to see Chinese landscape paintings here and he was also a little bit emotional.
The old Thompson knows how to appreciate traditional Chinese culture, let alone appreciate the ink landscape! That's impossible!
I don't know what the old guy thought, but he got a few ink landscape paintings!
Is it because of the popularity of Chinese antique artworks in the past two years and the soaring prices, he also wants to join in the fun and earn some money from the Chinese? This possibility cannot be ruled out!
If this old guy finds the right way, it might really be possible to achieve this goal!
China does not have a stolen antique art archive. Once the relevant antique art is sold through public channels and the stolen owner fails to find it, it can no longer be recovered!
For international art thieves like Thompson, this is undoubtedly a huge loophole. There are countless opportunities to make a fortune. How can it be missed?
Fortunately! It seems that they have not found a good opportunity to dispose of these Chinese antique works of art in their hands and they are still here for the time being!
This is the stuff left by his ancestors. Since he found out, these treasures will belong to him in the future, so don't even want to snatch them away!
Seeing these ink and wash landscapes, Ye Tian made a decision!
When he go back to bargaining with the FBI's art crime team and various museums, he must take down all the Chinese antique art here. It doesn't matter if he suffer from other aspects!
Ye Tian didn't have any doubts about the authenticity of these ink landscape scrolls!
These treasures was all flowed out from major museums in the United States and Europe. They have already been authenticated by a very authoritative one. All of them are authentic and there is no forgerie!
Besides, Ye Tian's eyes are the best and most authoritative appraisal instrument! Extremely accurate!
In his eyes, these paintings all radiated dazzling light of different colors, which accurately explained the age they came from!
The fascinating and alluring halos on the surface of the paintings prove that they are all masterpieces with extraordinary artistic value and market value!
After carefully admiring a few paintings for a while and wandering between the black and white landscapes, Ye Tian just converged and raised his phone again to start filming.
"This is a landscape painting from ancient China, "Dongshan Crossing Water", a representative work of Ma Yuan, a famous painter in the Southern Song Dynasty in ancient China. It has a history of more than 900 years!
"Dongshan Crossing the Water" was originally an old collection of the Old Summer Palace, an imperial garden in China. It was later looted by the Japanese and brought back to Japan. Since then, it has been kept in the National Museum of Tokyo, Japan.
Now I don't know why it is here, but to be honest, as a Chinese, I am very happy and honored to see this famous ancient Chinese painting here!
Although this is the first time I have seen this painting, based on my knowledge of Chinese painting and calligraphy, I can give a very positive answer. This is the real work of the painter Ma Yuan!"
After shooting the video and making the appraisal, Ye Tian moved to the next painting.
It is still an ink landscape painting, the style is beautiful and elegant, and it is heart-pounding!
"What you see is still a traditional Chinese ink landscape painting from Wen Zhengming, a famous painter in the Ming Dynasty and four Ming schools. This is one of his masterpieces, "Wu Shan Qiu Ji Tu".
As far as I know, this is a famous painting in a private collection. I didn't expect it to appear here. It seems that the collector was ransacked by art thieves!
After my rapid research and appraisal, this ancient famous painting with a history of nearly 600 years is indeed the authentic work of Wen Zhengming in the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt!"
Moving forward, what he see is still the ink landscape painting.
This painting depicts the landscape of Jiangnan.
In the painter's pen, the mountains in the south of the Yong River seem to be transparent, the water is alive, the trees are emerald, the stones are moist and the wind is light! Everything seems very fresh, agile and full of life!
The whole painting is beautiful, the brushes are simple, the lines are beautiful and long and the ink and water are all dripping and free, especially the "big wall split" method, which has a pioneering atmosphere!
There is no doubt that this is a work by everyone! Top paintings of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting!
After a drunken appreciation, Ye Tian just started shooting, explaining and giving an appraisal conclusion.
"Now it's a Chinese art unit and it's another Chinese ink landscape painting by the famous painter Li Tang in the early Southern Song Dynasty. The name of the painting is "Jiang Shan Qiu Se".
This famous painting was previously collected in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, but I didn't expect it to appear here. It seems that these art thieves love Boston very much and they ransacked another museum in this city!
I am very familiar with this painting. When I came to Boston before, I had seen it more than once, so I was very confident in the appraisal of this painting. It is 100% authentic Li Tang!"
After the filming of "Jiang Shan Qiu Se", Ye Tian took two more pictures of ink landscapes paintings before ending the Chinese painting and calligraphy unit.
Then what appeared before his eyes was a famous oil painting on canvas!
"Edgar Degas's masterpiece, "Count Lepic and His Daughters", was ransacked by three masked bandits at the Bührle Foundation Exhibition Hall in Zurich, Switzerland in 2008!"