Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 664 - 428: Is this auction being targeted?

Chapter 664: Chapter 428: Is this auction being targeted?

Upon returning to the villa, Sean Knight decided to choose some items from the spatial realm to sell.

After all, he felt it wouldn’t be good if he just bought and never sold.

Having spent money these past days, Sean felt it was necessary to exchange some of the unnecessary collections for money, or for suitable Chinese cultural relics instead.

He hadn’t noticed before since he used to have only incoming items, but recently, the large amount of cash going out made Sean feel the need to clean up the spatial realm.

He had no plans to sell the gold, as it was, at least, a hard currency.

Sean also had no intention of selling the firearms and weapons from the World War II warehouse, as they were not valuable, and you never know when they might come in handy.

After rummaging through the spatial realm, Sean took out an oil painting.

One by Monet Anderson.

He then took out another painting by Picasso.

He had quite a few paintings like this, as well as others by some artists.

However, Sean didn’t plan to take them all out — since scarcity makes things valuable.

He had checked before; Monet’s paintings sold for over ten million dollars on auctions, with the most expensive going for nearly a billion.

And Picasso’s paintings had more than one valued over a billion.

So, he figured these two paintings should be able to get back the Tiger Eating Man Vessel.

After all, the popularity of Chinese bronze ware was not high abroad.

Some of the high-priced auctioned items were clearly raised by the auction house or organizer to target those who urgently wanted to bring cultural relics back to China.

On the contrary, famous paintings by world-renowned painters like Picasso and Monet were more popular in the international auction world.

After deciding to send these two paintings to the auction, Sean had Kathy find someone to make exquisite packing boxes specifically for the two paintings.

"Mr. Knight, are you sure you want to send these two paintings to the auction? Why not hang them in the villa? The villa is lacking world-class famous paintings that can render an artistic atmosphere!"

Upon learning that Sean was going to auction the paintings, Kathy couldn’t stay calm and tried her best to persuade Sean to keep the paintings:

"You are no longer an unknown entity. With the assets, you currently have, you can be in the ranks of top billionaires in New York. So why not increase your own heritage in this way?"

"I don’t think it’s necessary," Sean shook his head and continued, "Think about it, hanging such a painting at home, I’d always have to worry about it being stolen or robbed — the gold incident before is a prime example.

So, I’d rather not display these things at home. However, when necessary, I can still find similar works."

Sean’s words made sense, so Kathy didn’t press the issue further.

Sean made a phone call to Robert and informed him about the matter.

"Are you serious? Has someone appraised it? Are they really Monet’s and Picasso’s works? Wait for me - I’ll be right over!"

Upon hearing Sean’s words, Robert was lost for words.

Half an hour later, Robert arrived at Sean’s villa with a middle-aged man named Edward Miller who was wearing glasses.

"This is our collaborative appraiser, Mr. Brown," introduced Robert to Sean, "He is skilled in appraising European paintings, especially Picasso’s works."

Sean nodded and gestured to Kathy, who directed two servants to bring up the beautifully packed boxes.

"Careful," Kathy cautioned the entire way, knowing the value of the two paintings.

Sean personally opened one of the packing boxes, revealing Picasso’s painting.

"The painting is called ’Eye of War.’," Sean introduced, "It looks very abstract."

As Sean took out the painting, Brown put on gloves and took out a magnifying glass to carefully examine the signature of the painting first.

After a while, he began to observe the entire painting.

The painting wasn’t very large, with both length and width being less than a meter.

Robert nervously watched Brown’s actions while quietly saying to Sean:

"Where did you get such a great piece? I thought the Donald’s auction might feature medieval German Imperial royal jewelry as the finale, but it seems now that these two paintings might compete for first place."

"Are you sure it’s real?" Sean asked back.

"Brown rarely appraises paintings this cautiously and for such a long time. I guess he’s currently taking the chance to carefully appreciate the painting-

After all, once a masterpiece like this is auctioned off, there’s a 90% chance it will be locked in a safe or a private collection room, never to see the light of day again."

He turned to Sean and continued:

"How can you bear to auction such a priceless painting?"

"Priceless?" Sean laughed, "To you, it may be priceless, but to me, these two paintings are worth less than that bronze ware."

"Well, that’s different, isn’t it?" Robert obviously didn’t agree with this view, "Each has its own merits. Besides, it seems the bronze ware is from 2,000-3,000 years ago, and this painting represents the pinnacle of European art!"

"There’s no comparison," Sean shook his head, "I’m not going to argue with you. Just like people say, ’There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes,’ everyone’s perception of value is different."

Seeing that Sean wasn’t interested in discussing the topic further, Robert didn’t press the issue.

However, he was actually very happy that Sean could provide such excellent items for auction. As the recommender, he would naturally benefit from it.