The original painting attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci sold for $450 million at auction in 2017, setting the record for the world’s most expensive painting.
, listed by Christie’s auction house as being completed around 1600 by an artist working in Italy who based the painting off Leonardo’s painting, was estimated to fetch only about $10,500 on the low end of its pre-sale estimate.
Despite considerable damage along the top and the bottom of the portrait, which shows Jesus holding his right hand raised in blessing, the work sold for 10 times as much. The painting, from a private collection in the South of France according to Christie’s, is a copy of the landmark “Salvator Mundi” that sold for a groundbreaking
at auction in 2017 after a nearly 20-minute bidding war, becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold.The original “Salvator Mundi” was touted by Christie’s as the last Leonardo in private hands, and crowds lined up around the entrance of the auction house’s Rockefeller Center location for a week before the auction to catch a glimpse of the work before the sale.
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