Wang Jianlin, Liu Luanxiong, Wang Zhongjun, Liu Yiqian, Yang Zi, Chen Taiming and other local collectors usually pay attention to what aspects of the collection, and what "treasures of the town house" are on hand?
Let's take a look at their mysterious collection, trench to the point of dropping your jaw!
Wang Jianlin
Collecting famous paintings earned 1000 times
Collector's business card: Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda Group. Wang Jianlin was the richest man in China on the Hurun Report and the Forbes China Rich List released in October 2016.
The richest man, Wang Jianlin, no matter what he does, has a high degree of exposure. But he likes to collect, and not many people know about it. In fact, as early as the 80s of the last century, he began to collect, and in the 90s he was already famous. He once joked that when he gave up the iron rice bowl of the army and the government and went to the sea to do business, it was because he had money that he could collect and buy calligraphy and paintings.
Wang Jianlin engaged in collecting, just like he did an enterprise, vigorously and vigorously, as long as he saw it accurately, he boldly bet on it. In 1992, Fu Baoshi's family approached Wang Jianlin and offered to sell Mr. Fu's masterpiece "Dragon Pan Tiger Foot" for 8 million yuan. This was a sky-high price at the time, and in Wang Jianlin's own words, he could engage in real estate. But after he saw it, he decided to buy it. If the funds are not enough, it will be paid in four installments and two years, each time 2 million.
Fu Baoshi's masterpiece "Dragon Pan Tiger"
Because of the early intervention, Wang Jianlin took many of his paintings very cheaply, and he also made a lot of money. His own answer to how much he earned was: "At least 1,000 times." It also became the most successful investment of his life.
On November 4, 2013, Christie's New York auction night, Picasso's masterpiece "Two Little Children" was auctioned by Dalian Wanda Group for $28.16 million. After filming "Two Little Children," Wanda spent another $2.741 million to buy Picasso's 1965 painting Woman in a Hat. From these two works, we can see Wanda's collection standards.
Picasso's masterpiece "Two Little Children"
Liu Luanxiong
Buying a house and buying a car is not as good as buying art
Collector's business card: Liu Luanxiong, who started by selling ceiling fans in his early years, and later became involved in the Hong Kong stock market and property market. In 2015, it ranked sixth in the 2015 Forbes Hong Kong Rich List with a value of US$10.9 billion.
At the age of twenty-seven or eight, Liu Luanxiong had just obtained his first huge fortune, and he was a little confused, and after buying 5 Ferraris in a week, the hair stylist said to him, you are not as good as buying art, not only good looking but also appreciating. As soon as Liu Luanxiong heard it, he felt that it made sense and began to enter the collection market.
In 2006, Liu Luanxiong photographed Andy Warhol's Portrait of Mao Zedong for $17.37 million, and the following year, he photographed Gauguin's masterpiece Morning for $3,924, becoming one of the most generous Chinese collectors. Later, the American media named him the sixth top collector in the world, but he thought he was underestimated, at least in the top three.
Gauguin's Morning
In addition to calligraphy and painting, Liu Luanxiong also loves red wine. Gradually, he became a big buyer in the auction market of famous wines. At that time, Rafi only needed 1,000 Hong Kong dollars a bottle, and now he has thousands of bottles. After more than 30 years of accumulation, Liu Luanxiong's collection has long been sky-high, and the value of red wine alone has exceeded 400 million US dollars, as well as various famous paintings and porcelain. Over the years, the value of art has appreciated rapidly, and Liu Luanxiong said that the income from his paintings far exceeds that of buying a building.
On November 10, 2015, at Christie's Geneva's wine, watches and jewellery auctions, a rare pink diamond weighing 16.08 carats was sold for US$28,523,925, or about RMB181 million, setting a new world auction record of US$1,773,875 per carat for pink diamonds. After the auction, foreign media reported that the sky-high pink diamond was bid by the wealthy Hong Kong businessman Liu Luanxiong, who named the diamond "Sweet Josephine" after his beloved daughter's English name.
The 16.08 ct rare pink diamond is worth RMB181 million
Wang Zhongjun
From Van Gogh to Monet, there are collections
Collector's business card: Wang Zhongjun, Chairman of Huayi Brothers Media Co., Ltd., a giant in the entertainment industry in mainland China.
In addition to his entertainment career in the entertainment industry, Wang Zhongjun likes to collect, which is related to the fact that he likes to paint since he was a child. During his study abroad in the United States, he became fascinated by Chen Yifei's oil paintings and met each other through the introduction of friends. Both loved movies and later became good friends.
After returning to China to start a business and founding Huayi Brothers, Wang Zhongjun gradually accumulated wealth and began to collect sculptures, paintings and antiques. In his home, he is filled with sculptures and paintings from many years of collection, like a private art museum.
To travel abroad for business, Wang Zhongjun likes to visit the ancient castle the most. Once, he saw a batch of classical furniture in France, liked it very much, bought more than twenty pieces in one go, and shipped it back to Beijing in a container.
However, Wang Zhongjun's favorite painting and calligraphy, from Xu Beihong to Zeng Fanzhi, from Van Gogh to Monet, there are collections. He has a special affection for the first artists after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, and his heart is full of reverence, such as Chen Yifei and Ai Xuan. In his home, a huge painting of Chen Yifei", Juan Juan, hangs.
Zeng Gong's "Bureau Post" worth 207 million yuan
Wang Zhongjun, who is not short of money, has repeatedly made big moves in recent years. In 2014, he spent 377 million yuan to shoot Van Gogh's "Daisies and Poppies"; In 2016, he bid for 207 million yuan for the Northern Song Dynasty writer Zeng Gong's "Bureau Post".
Van Gogh's 377 million yuan oil painting "Daisies and Poppies"
Liu Yiqian
The pace of collection and art museum construction has not stopped
Collector's business card: Liu Yiqian, founder of New Liyi Group, founder of Long Art Museum.
In 1997, Duoyunxuan was photographed in autumn, and Zhang Zongxian, a senior collector, looked at a fine painting by Wu Hufan and was determined to win. The pre-auction estimate of the painting was between 1.2 million and 1.8 million, which was already a sky-high price at the time. Who knows halfway out of the way to bite the gold, a young man and him on the bar, the price rose to a staggering 2.14 million, and finally pocketed.
This young man was Liu Yiqian. Many people think he's crazy, and some say he can't solve the set in 100 years. As a result, the painting later doubled dozens of times!
On December 18, 2012, the Long Art Museum founded by Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei was inaugurated in Pudong New Area, Shanghai. On March 28, 2014, the West Bund Pavilion of the Long Museum was unveiled in Binjiang, Xuhui District, forming the unique art ecology of the Long Museum of Art of "one city, two museums".
Decades of major auctions and art fairs, the collection and construction of art museums by liu yiqian and Wang Wei, the couple with the most collecting strength in today's Chinese collecting circle, seems to have never stopped.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup
Starting from the first art museum they founded, the Long Museum (Pudong Pavilion), a series of heavyweight collections such as the HK$280 million Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, the HK$348 million "Yongle Imperial Red Yan Mo Enemy Embroidered Thangka", the 308 million yuan Wang Xizhi "Ping'an Post" and the 1.084 billion yuan Modigliani 'Lying Naked Woman' have successively entered the Dragon Art Museum and become the treasures of the town museum. In April 2016, Liu Yiqian successfully bid for Zhang Daqian's masterpiece "Taoyuan Tu" for 225 million yuan.
Lying on Her Side worth 1.084 billion yuan
Yangzi
Focus on Tibetan Buddhist culture collection
Collector's business card: Yang Zi, Chairman of Juli Film and Television Media, Distinguished Researcher of the Institute of Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Relics of the Forbidden City Research Institute.
Many people refer to Yang Zi, who spans the three worlds of collecting, commerce and entertainment, as "the man who is like an enigma". In the field of collection, there is no shortage of high-priced top collections. Buddha statues, thangkas, dzi beads, purple sand... After nearly 20 years of collection accumulation, Yangzi has a huge collection of top-level collections.
Yang Zi's favorite is to collect Dzi, from one-eyed Dzi to twelve-eyed Dzi, Dalo Dzi, Heaven and Earth Dzi and almost all kinds of collections. For more than 20 years, Yangzi has collected more than 3,300 Dzi Dzi, which can no longer be measured by specific value, and is known as the "Dzi King" by the collection community. At the Venice Film Festival, Huang Shengyi made a stunning appearance, and the string of dzi he wore around his neck was worth 100 million.
On November 19, 2015, Yang Zi auctioned Gu Jingzhou's squirrel grape ten-head set of tea sets for 92 million yuan, creating a new record for the auction of Purple Clay Pots in China.
Gu Jingzhou,000,000 yuan made squirrel grape ten-head set of tea sets
In early October 2015, the statue of the "King of the Statue of the Guru" I Karmapa was purchased by a mysterious buyer from a senior European collector for more than 400 million yuan, which caused a sensation in the collecting world, thus setting off a climax in the theme of Tibetan Buddhist statues. It was learned from insiders in the industry that this mysterious buyer was Yang Zi.
Statue of the 1st Karmapa worth 400 million yuan
Yang Zi has been immersed in the study of Tibetan Buddhist art for many years, actively participated in the protection and promotion of Tibetan Buddhist culture, had many academic exchanges with scholars at home and abroad, and walked into Tibet many times to donate to the needy groups in temples and schools in Tibetan areas. In 2015, he donated money to build Yushu Dangka Temple, and donated the 1,000-year-old pure nine-eyed dzi to pay homage to the 12-year-old statue of Shakyamuni Buddha at the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa.
In view of Yang Zi's special contributions to the research, dissemination, development and protection of Tibetan Buddhist art and culture, on December 1, 2015, Yang Zi was appointed as a special researcher of the Institute of Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Relics of the Forbidden City Research Institute.
Zheng Xinmiao, president of the Forbidden City Research Institute, issued a letter of appointment to Yang Zi
Chen Taiming
An avid lover of Western contemporary art
Collector's business card: Chen Taiming, chairman of Guoju Group, one of the top ten wealthy businessmen in Taiwan.
At the international auction site, you can always find traces of Chen Taiming, from Bacon and Richter to Chinese modern and contemporary art.
In 1976, when he was a student, Chen Taiming bought his first collection, for which he saved money for a year and a half. Since the mid-1990s, he has mainly collected Western and Chinese modern and contemporary art, as well as Chinese official kiln porcelain.
Today, the computer engineer collects extensively the paintings and sculptures of "blue-chip" artists. He is currently an avid lover of Western contemporary art. Chen Taiming said that he will gradually sell some Chinese modern and contemporary oil paintings in the near future, and transfer more energy to European and American contemporary art collections.
Chen Taiming once bought a rare small-scale work by British artist Lucian Freud to paint Francis Bacon for $33 million, breaking Freud's record for the highest price of a work of this size at the time.
Rare small-scale works by Francis Bacon
After the heyday of the market in 2008, Chen Taiming gained a lot from the art market. On May 13, 2014, Christie's in New York hosted the "Post-War and Contemporary Art Night Auction", and the Bacon "Triptych" sent by collector Chen Taiming attracted much attention due to the super high valuation of nearly 80 million US dollars, and finally sold for 80.8 million US dollars.
Francis Bacon's triptych Portrait of John Edwards