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Author: Black Knight
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-01 13:07:29

So, the socialites turned their attention to Bryden Jones again.

If anyone else had bid 40 million, they would have been ridiculed as crazy.

But this was the esteemed Jones family’s young master, and someone quickly and tactfully reminded him, “Mr. Jones, don’t you see the painting? How could it possibly be worth 40 million?”

Bryden Jones replied calmly, “This painting is a long-lost masterpiece by the 19th-century European genius Vincent van Gogh. It’s an early work from his time in the Netherlands, and it has been lost to the world for many years. Forty million is already the lowest estimate.”

The entire room was in an uproar. No one expected that this child-like doodle was actually a divine work by Vincent van Gogh.

Many of Van Gogh's early works, especially from his time in the Netherlands, have been lost

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