Art on Sunday #34
The most expensive painting ever sold!
Salvator Mundi (Latin for “Savior of the World”) by Leonardo da Vinci, c.1500, oil on walnut.
Long thought to be a copy of a lost original, Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed by leading scholars to Leonardo da Vinci, was sold at auction by Christie’s in New York fir $450.3 million, a new record sale price for a painting. The painting is to be on display at the Louver Abu Dhabi.
Veiled with overpainting, it was restored, rediscovered, and included in a major Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 2011–12. The paintings attribution to da Vinci is disputed by several specialists.
Salvator Mundi is Latin for “Savior of the World.”
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It’s interesting how they can find paintings, under paint, that’s remained hidden for years/centuries … and what fantastic sums of money are paid for works of art. Also it was interesting to look at the Louvre in Abu Dhabi … as I hadn’t realised the Louvre had an ‘outshoot’ there … cheers Hilary
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I didn’t know about that either. And, so far as paintings hidden under paint, one has to wonder why and how that came about. Strange, to say the least.
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