How valuable are Xu Beihong's famous paintings now?

As we all know, the soaring housing prices in Beijing are still a bit scary. It is no exaggeration to sell representative quadrangles in Beijing to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Maybe only those business tycoons or stars can afford it. If ordinary people can't afford it all their lives, just in the 1930s, a very famous painter, Mr. Xu Beihong, actually spent 654,300 yuan on a painting.

This painting is called "Eighty-seven Immortals Volume", and those who are interested may have heard of it. This painting is very famous. It was painted by Wu Daozi, a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and was called "painting sage". The background of this painting is Taoism, and 87 immortals are painted in one painting. Every immortal has a very good sense of lines and charm, and the characters in the painting are full of spirit, which is also the highest level in sketch painting in the Tang Dynasty. It is definitely a "national treasure" cultural relic, and this painting was originally in Yuanmingyuan. When the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed, the painting disappeared, along with other cultural relics.

Everyone knows that Xu Beihong is not only a famous painter, but also likes to collect famous paintings. When he was in Beiping, he often went to Liulichang to buy cultural relics and calligraphy and painting, and he also met many good calligraphy and painting. He paid for it, even if he scrimped. He collected many famous paintings and antiques in his life, almost more than 10 thousand pieces, each of which is priceless. Only when he bought eighty-seven immortals.

1936, Xu Beihong has become a minor celebrity, so he held his own art exhibition in Hong Kong. At that time, Mr. Xu Dishan (a famous writer) warmly welcomed him. Knowing that he has a hobby of collecting, Xu Dishan chatted with him and told him that there was a lady Martin. Her father left many precious calligraphy and paintings when she lived in China, but Mrs Martin didn't understand them, so she planned to sell them.

Xu Beihong must be very excited. He contacted Martin immediately and then went to Martin's residence. At that time, Mrs. Martin opened the box, and a bunch of celebrity calligraphy and painting were all selected by Xu Beihong. At that time, many paintings were original, but many of them were unsigned. Suddenly there was a painting that made him value it very much. After reading it for a long time, she kept saying that I only wanted this one. Mrs Martin asked him to have a look. He said it was unbearable and I wanted this. Mrs Martin saw Xu Bei.

Later, Xu Dishan said that his seven paintings are also out of print, which are very valuable and particularly valued. Only then did Mrs. Martin agree that the painting was the Eighty-Seven Immortals Volume. At that time, he quickly invited Zhang Daqian and Xie Laixin to enjoy the painting. They were surprised after reading it. They think he has got a fortune. Xu Beihong is also very happy that this painting can return to the motherland. He stamped it with the seal of "Sad Life" and wrote a postscript.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he has been taking this painting to Hong Kong and Singapore. Later, these places were occupied by the Japanese. He went to Yunnan, where he held a charity exhibition. This painting is one of them. At that time, there were always Japanese planes flying over Kunming, and people would hide in bomb shelters. Xu Beihong also locked his showroom and ran to the bomb shelter. Who knows that when he came out of the bomb shelter, he found his own.

Losing his beloved painting made him unable to eat every day. A general suddenly said to him, I have seen it in Chengdu, and I can bring it back to you. This man spent 200,000 yuan on Xu Beihong and took away the priceless painting of 10 to bring it back. Xu Beihong is very happy. Later, I learned that this person stole the painting, and this person is not ordinary, just to get more money. At that time, many people advised Xu Beihong to get the money back, but he felt that it would be worth it if he painted it back. Later, he donated his paintings and other antiques to the country.

This painting cost Xu Beihong a lot of money, including his own 17 expensive painting. At that time, a quadrangle was almost 3000 yuan, and Xu Beihong's money could buy 100 quadrangles. Later, the painting was auctioned at a price of 9.77 million yuan, and later some experts valued it at about 5 billion yuan. So some people will think how valuable it would have been if they had bought the quadrangle at that time, but I think Xu Beihong did it for the sake of a national treasure. He almost lost his life. How can he care about things outside?