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A clash of wills keeps a Leonardo masterpiece hidden
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. The anonymous buyer of the Salvator Mundi was found to be acting as a surrogate for the kingdoms de facto ruler, Salman. Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
by David D. Kirkpatrick and Elaine Sciolino
NEW YORK
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- French curators had worked for a decade to prepare a major exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. When it opened, though, the most talked-about painting they had planned to show Salvator Mundi, the most expensive work ever sold at auction was nowhere to be seen.
Lost treasure from Horace Walpole s Strawberry Hill Collection discovered in Suffolk and set for auction
The soon-to-be-auctioned work is one of only three known examples of the model, with the other two currently held by The Louvre and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
CAMBRIDGE
.- A sculpture of an ostrich from the workshop of celebrated Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna, will go under the hammer at Cheffins Fine Sale in Cambridge on 21st April. Having been held in a private collection for over 180 years, and originally purchased from the Horace Walpole collection at Strawberry Hill House, the sculpture is set to sell for between £80,000 -£120,000.
This âlost da Vinci masterpieceâ cost $450 million. Why is it being kept hidden?
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French curators had worked for a decade to prepare a major exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. When it opened, though, the most talked-about painting they had planned to show â
Salvator Mundi, the most expensive work ever sold at auction â was nowhere to be seen.
Plucked from shabby obscurity at a New Orleans estate sale, the painting had been sold in 2017 as a rediscovered âlostâ Leonardo and fetched more than $US450 million ($590.8 million) from an anonymous bidder who kept it hidden from view. The chance to see it at the Louvre museumâs anniversary show two years later had created a sensation in the international art world
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