$450 million painting bought by MBS last year may be a fake worth 1.5 million

[Samira]

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...rdo-may-be-worth-just-1-5m-1.3905641?mode=amp

Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, will not be part of this year’s big Leonardo da Vinci show in Paris because curators at the Louvre do not believe it can be attributed solely to the artist, it has been claimed.

The art historian and writer Ben Lewis has charted the remarkable story of a painting which made headlines all over the world when it sold for $450 million, or about €400 million, at Christie’s in New York in 2017.

Some of the world’s leading Leonardo experts, including Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford, insist it is genuinely the lost work of the master. Others are more circumspector dismissive.

The buyer has been identified as the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who reportedly agreed that it would become a star of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It was also due to be lent to the Louvre in Paris for its big Leonardo show marking the 500th anniversary of his death.

The display in Abu Dhabi was unexpectedly halted last year, and its loan to Paris in the autumn will not happen, Lewis told the Hay literary festival.

“My inside sources at the Louvre, various sources, tell me that not many curators think this picture is an autograph Leonardo da Vinci. If they did exhibit it… they would want to exhibit it as ‘workshop’. If that’s the case it will be very unlikely that it will be shown, because the owner can’t possibly lend it… The value will go down to somewhere north of $1.5m”, or about €1.35 million.

Lewis is the author of the book The Last Leonardo, charting the painting’s extraordinary and tangled story.

Very sad news!

 

[Aladdin]

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...rdo-may-be-worth-just-1-5m-1.3905641?mode=amp



Very sad news!

The value is not in the art but the hype created around it by experts and big media anyway he got robbed of 450 million if it true. the voice created around it determines the value

 

[angelplan]

The west outsmart these stupid Arabs and take their oil day in day out and violate their women in the line of welfare. Arabs competing each other for tall structure when they could have planted trees and make it liveable. In the old days Egypt and Today's Saudi arabia territories used to be much more greener.

 

[Lostbox]

It's not even about the value of the painting to begin with, it's more about flexing and ego stroking.

 

[NFD]

450mil

 

[AliUK]

Has the money to buy the painting but not to hire a painting expert. Bunch of fucking baqtis