Bab 232: Chapter 232: Before the Preview
The next morning, Sotheby's auction house in Manhattan.
Ye Tian brought the two beauties here early in the morning and completed all the preparations. Now it is nine o'clock when the press conference officially begins, followed by the preview of the auction.
David and an assistant also arrived early at Sotheby's, and today he has a lot to work.
In addition to fulfilling his duties as a lawyer, he also has to participate in a press conference. If anyone questions the ownership of the two top oil paintings, he can come forward to fight!
At half past eight, Jason and Sophie arrived joined hands.
As soon as the two people separated in the hall, Sophie went to Betty and the others, and Jason went straight to Ye Tian.
After stepping up to say hello, Jason immediately began to complain.
"Steven, why didn't you call me when you discovered the treasure in your apartment? It's a shame to miss such a wonderful treasure hunt! You can meet and not ask for it!
Your video of discovering the treasure is so cool! It has spread all over the Internet. From yesterday to today, many people I met are talking about this topic!
There are also the two top oil paintings of Paul Cézanne found on the wall, which can make everyone envious to death! The two oil paintings are estimated to be worth 100 million US dollars, right?"
Ye Tian smiled triumphantly, and then explained:
"Before the two oil paintings were displayed, I didn't know what was wrapped there, whether it was a treasure or a empty frame, so I didn't ask you to come over.
However, to avoid possible legal disputes and doubts, David must participate as a lawyer. Jennifer was on time and spent the night with us.
As for the prices of these two oil paintings, I can't estimate them accurately, but they are definitely very high, each of them is at least 30 million US dollars. That is Paul Cézanne!"
"Wow! What a windfall!"
Jason exclaimed, his eyes widened.
Several people chatted, and the time soon approached nine o'clock, and reporters began to enter the venue.
After checking the time, Ye Tian and David walked to the interview booth, and Jason went to stand with Betty and the others and waited for the official start of the press conference.
At this time, all the work in the exhibition hall is ready.
The exhibition hall is located in the center of the second floor of Sotheby's Auction House. It is the largest preview exhibition hall here, dedicated to displaying heavyweight treasures!
Those that can be previewed here, without exception, are the grand finale of each auction!
And Ye Tian's rare piece of gold and two top oil paintings by Paul Cézanne are undoubtedly treasures of this level, even heavier!
So although there are only three treasures, the auction house still put this preview in the largest exhibition hall, which shows that Sotheby's attaches great importance to these three treasures!
The security of the exhibition hall is very strict. Every visitor who enters the exhibition hall must undergo a security check. No one can make an exception.
Even Jason and Sophie came in and went through the security check. Even if Ye Tian said hello in advance, it was useless!
In addition to an airport-like security device at the entrance of the two exhibition halls, there are also two fully armed security personnel at the entrances of the exhibition halls, staring at everyone who enters the exhibition hall.
The security force inside the exhibition hall is also very strong. There are a total of three booths, and each booth has three security personnel in suits and sunglasses.
Under the slightly spacious suits, each of them wore body armor and pistols, which was enough to deal with most emergencies.
In addition, there were several security personnel posing as visitors.
They have been mixed in the crowd, not only can monitor the behavior of the visitors, but also serve as a backup security force to prevent accidents!
There is a reason why Sotheby's auction house is so careful and attaches so much importance to the security of this preview.
First of all, of course, because of the extremely high value of the exhibits.
The gold nugget and the two Paul Cézanne's two oil paintings exhibited this time may cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The auction house must be more careful!
If something goes wrong with these babies, even Sotheby's auction house can't afford such a huge loss, and they will definitely pay for their injuries!
More importantly, it has dealt a heavy blow to the reputation of the auction house, which can't be exchanged for much money!
The second reason is the extremely strong smell of blood carried on this piece of gold!
When this piece of gold was still in Dawson, Canada, it had already caused a huge wave, almost causing Steven and the Canadians to go to war.
With some ingenious cooperation, this piece of gold came to New York safely, but what happened later made all New Yorkers tremble all night!
The Tijuana gang in Mexico went directly to New York, and they fought a fierce street fight with Steven on 141st Street in Manhattan, paying a heavy price of six deaths and one maimed!
This street fighting turned 141st Street into a battlefield, with corpses everywhere and blood flowing! As a result, this street is still under blockade until now, no one can set foot!
The Mexicans who died tragically on 141st Street came to New York for this piece of gold!
It's just that they didn't expect to run into more cruel, more insidious and cunning guys, Steven and those armed security guards, so that they lost their lives in this city!
Because of this, Sotheby's auction house was extremely careful and spent a lot of effort on security.
What if the Tijuana gang in Mexico takes a desperate fight!
The preview is their last opportunity. After the preview, the exhibits will be put back into the lot warehouse and will not appear again until the official auction.
Security at that time will be unprecedentedly tight, and there will be no loopholes at all.
In addition to guarding against the gangsters in Tijuana, Mexico, auction houses must also be careful of international art thieves.
Take a look at all the top art theft cases, many of them happened in broad daylight, in full view, and they were stolen during public exhibitions!
If those art thieves have the idea of these two top oil paintings, then today's first public display is the best time for them to start!
If they miss today, their hope of success will be very slim.
In terms of armed security, Sotheby's has done it to the extreme, and it's a bit too much! It may cause panic among visitors, but it is not beautiful!
For the rest, they can only use their brains in terms of hardware equipment.
The booths displaying the three heavy treasures are all specially designed, very modern and very safe high-tech booths.
These booths are equipped with highly transparent, high-strength fully enclosed bullet-proof glass covers that can withstand the violent bursts of automatic rifles and cannot be forced open in a short time.
In addition, if there is an attack, the three exhibits will immediately sink, enter the booth, disappear in front of everyone, and be completely sealed off.
These booths are three alloy safes, heavy and firmly fixed to the floor, it is impossible to move them away.
It is unrealistic to punch through the floor from the first floor. The first floor is an office lobby where no one can do anything.
No idiot would move this idea, this is a top office building, not an ordinary apartment building, and the floor slab is generally strong unless it is blasted! Otherwise there is no show at all!
If you want to open these booths, it is even more impossible!
The digital password and fingerprint to open the booth are in the hands of Larry and Simon respectively, which is a double insurance.
The most important iris recognition is Ye Tian's iris.
He doesn't think anyone can force him to open the booth and let them rob his baby! That is pure dreaming!
In addition to the iris, he there are armed!
Under his beautiful Zegna suit are three pistols full of bullets.
There are two M9s under the armpits on both sides! In the concealed holster of the back waist, there is a CZ83! The firepower is strong enough! There is also a sharp German combat knife tied to the calf, which can be used for close combat.
With these weapons, he and Sotheby's security department have coordinated and there is no problem.
The main target of his defense today is the Tijuana Gang in Mexico. Who knows what this gang of lunatics will do? Be careful!
Of course, he didn't mind taking out these pistols and hitting other guys with unpredictable hearts!
It's exactly nine o'clock.
The exhibition hall was full of voices and lively. There were many reporters on the scene, but more of them were visitors who came here, including many familiar faces of Ye Tian.
There are treasure hunters from the warehouse auction industry in New York. Philip, White, and Haven are all here, about seven or eight. Every guy's eyes are red, obviously jealous!
Also a lot of gold practitioners he met in Alaska, including Scott from Barrick Gold, several guys from the Wall Street Morgan mining investment team and people from Newmont Gold.
The purpose of their coming today is undoubtedly that charming piece of gold! This is a treasure that they will never forget and be hard to give up!
There are former colleagues on Wall Street, as well as current and former neighbors.
Of course, there are also hostile and malicious gazes here.
Mayor Rick of Dawson was in the audience. There were three or four people beside him, from Dawson City or from the Canadian Ministry of Mines.
These people all looked at Ye Tian fiercely, their eyes spitting out fire, wishing they could just tear him apart to relieve their hatred!
In addition, Ye Tian also saw many well-known New York collectors, gallery directors, and several art appraisal experts he had met.
Obviously, most of them came for those two top famous paintings!
There are other people. Although most of them don't know each other, Ye Tian is very sure that there must be many collectors and billionaires here. This is a way out!
After scanning the exhibition hall around. Ye Tian chuckled softly.
"It's so exciting! My buddies like this. The more people the better, the more sensational the better!"
The time for the press conference was up, and the lively host's clear voice came to my ears.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Sotheby's in New York. I hope you can spend a good time here and get what you want!"
"Papa...Papa"
Applause began to sound, polite and warm.
Ye Tian and David stood on the stage, applauding softly, while chatting in a low voice about the coping strategies for the meeting.
The reporters in the audience were already ready to move, all staring at Ye Tian, waiting for the time for questions.
"Today, there will be two events in this exhibition hall, the first is the press conference, followed by the live display of three top treasures,..."
The host's voice sounded again, gradually bringing the atmosphere of the scene!
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