A 500-YEAR-OLD PAINTING believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci sold for $450.3 million in New York yesterday, blazing anew world record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction, Christie’s said.
Salvator Mundi or “Saviour of the World”, which depicts Jesus Christ, more than doubled the previous record of $179.4 million paid for Pablo Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version O) in New York in 2015.
Lost for years only to resurface at a regional auction in 2005, it is one of fewer than 20 da Vinci paintings generally accepted as being from the Renaissance master’s own hand, according to Christie’s.
All the others are held in museum or institutional collections.
The painting’s price was all the more extraordinary given that the oil on panel fetched only 45 British pounds in 1958, at the time believed to have been a copy, before subsequently disappearing for years.
Source: http://www.thejournal.ie/da-vinci-painting-sold-3699555-Nov2017/
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