On the evening of June 25th, an oil painting named "Xu Beihong", Jiufanggao, was sold at a high price of 89 million yuan in Baolongchun, Shanghai, and the buyer was Zhang Zhenyu, a Hainan collector. As early as before the auction, doubts about the authenticity and publication of Jiufang Cake have aroused doubts from all sides. In recent years, the old oil paintings that have just improved have once again fallen into the quagmire of distinguishing authenticity, and the collection of old oil paintings has once again become a topic of concern in the collection circle.
The Disturbance of Jiufang Paste on the Authenticity of Old Oil Paintings
According to the analysis of insiders, the so-called "Jiufang Cake" filmed by Xu Beihong in Shanghai Baolong has obvious flaws in terms of creative techniques, comparison of characters and animals in the picture, color of the picture and handwriting. Just because the frame is original, the buyer thinks that the work is genuine, which is untenable. Before the auction, the auction company claimed that the works were collected by the john rabe family, which proved to be false. The Rabe family never sold any art collections.
However, such works openly appeared in the Complete Works of Xu Beihong published by Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House in May, 201/. At the same time, the oil painting "Naked Woman: Image of Jiang Biwei" shot by Beijing Jiuge Auction Company at 20 10 was 72.8 million yuan. After the auction, the first oil painting seminar of the Central Academy of Fine Arts 10 students made a public statement, saying that this work was only their work of that year.
Chai Ning, director of Hanhai Auction Oil Painting Department, stressed in an interview that the identification of authenticity is the most difficult and crucial point in the collection of old oil paintings. However, there is no authoritative and reliable appraisal institution in the market at present, and many domestic publications are not standardized. In addition, driven by the collection craze in recent years, some unscrupulous merchants make fake publications and promote fake paintings through various channels. Xu Beihong, full of loopholes, became an accomplice of the auction company to take fake photos, and also cast a shadow over the collection of old oil paintings.
Objectively evaluate the value of old oil paintings
Old oil paintings occupy a particularly important position in the art history of China. The Republic of China was an important period for China's oil painting reform, which had a great influence on China's art and Chinese painting. The returnees, led by Xu Beihong and others, introduced foreign traditional realistic techniques and oil painting forms into China, and took the initiative to express social reality with this foreign art form. Although there are still many imperfections in artistic form and expression, it has made pioneering contributions to the development of oil painting art in China.
The first generation of oil painters are the pioneers and founders of today's oil paintings, with profound education and overseas artistic skills, such as Wei Tianlin, Yan, Liu Haisu and Zhu. Their position in art history is comparable to that of Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian, both of whom belong to the avant-garde masters, but the number of oil painters is small and the prices of their works are not high. Some early oil painters were almost forgotten, such as Sha Qi, Li Tiefu, Zhu Shijie and Zhou Bichu. Although their techniques have been surpassed by later generations, from the overall artistic accomplishment, the pioneering significance and artistic value of their works should be affirmed by art history and market. For collectors, now is the best time to enter the early oil painting collection, and the old oil painting collection will gradually be transferred to powerful collectors.
But judging from the market performance of these old oil painters' works, except for a few famous painters, the prices of most early oil paintings are almost the same as those of 10 years ago.
In the spring of 20 12, China's 20th-century old oil paintings were first published in Beijing Yongle Auction: Centennial Inheritance-an Important Private Collection of 20th-century China Oil Paintings in Asia. This series includes the first generation of important painters in China, such as Yan, Zhou Bichu, Xu Beihong and Dachuan Lin. Based on the depression of the spring auction market this year and facing various external environments, Wang Conghui, the head of China 20 and Contemporary Art Department of Yongle Auction, said: "Old oil paintings will not be affected during the market adjustment period, as long as they are fine and of good quality, they are still favored by collectors."