Which world famous artwork occupys the “Most Sold For” list with Davinci’s “Salvador Mundi”?
No artwork has come close to the price paid by a telephone bidder for Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Salvador Mundi” at Christies in New York. Composed in the 16th Century, it last changed hands in the 1950s, when it was bought for £45 as it was believed to be a copy.
In just 19 minutes, the 26-inch tall painting referred to by the auction house as “The Last DaVinci” broke the record for most expensive painting ever sold. Proceedings briefly dwindled around the $200 million mark before a renewed energy saw the bidding battle taking $2 million strides before the hammer came down on the equivalent of £342 million.
The depiction of Christ is over two and half times more expensive than the previous record-holder, Picasso’s “Women of Algiers” which sold for almost $180 million at auction in 2015.
- “Salvador Mundi” Leonardo DaVinci – $450.3m
- “Women of Algiers” Pablo Picasso – $179.4m
- “Reclining Nude” Amedeo Modigliani – $170.4m
- “The Woman in Gold” Gustav Klimt – $135m
- “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” Vincent Van Gogh – $149.7m (1990 equivalent of)
- “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” Francis Bacon – $142.4m
- “Dance at Moulin de la Galette” Pierre-Auguste Renoir – $141.7m
- “Boy with a Pipe” Pablo Picasso – $130.7m
- “The Scream” Edvard Munch – $119.9m
- “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” Pablo Picasso – $106.5
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