Wednesday, November 15, 2017 11:14:25 PM
Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for $450m at auction, smashing records
Correction: I heard 'sold at $400 million', yet apparently that price
was not the final deal. Also my Da Vinci should have been da Vinci.
Christie’s sells long-lost Salvator Mundi, artwork billed as ‘biggest
discovery of the 21st century’, for $400m plus auction house premium
People take photos after Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi painting was displayed
in Hong Kong in October. The artwork sold for $400m at auction.
Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
Edward Helmore in New York
Wednesday 15 November 2017 20.24 EST
First published on Wednesday 15 November 2017 19.56 EST
Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has sold at Christie’s in New York for $450.3m, including auction house premium, shattering the world record for any work of art sold at auction.
The sale generated a sustained 20 minutes of tense telephone bidding as the auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen juggled rival suitors before a packed crowd of excited onlookers in the salesroom. At one point, Pylkkanen remarked: “Historic moment, we’ll wait” as the the bidding went back and forth, pausing at just over $200m as it rose to break the auction record.
At one point, a telephone bidder jumped in, pushing the price from $332m to $350m. The bidding then resumed: $353m, $355m. A jump to $370. A jump to $400m.
“Thank you all for your bidding,” said Pykklanen. “Four hundred million selling here at Christie’s. The piece is sold.”
The saleroom erupted in cheers and applause.
The sale places Salvator Mundi as the highest-priced work sold at auction, including Pablo Picasso’s 1955 Women of Algiers (Version O), sold for $179.4m, and Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917-18 Reclining Nude, sold for $170.4m. Record private sales are believed to include $250m for a painting by Paul Cézanne and $300m for a Paul Gauguin.
Previewing the lot last month, Christie’s described the painting of Christ holding a crystal orb in his left hand and raising his right in benediction as “the biggest discovery of the 21st century”.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/15/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-auction
da Vinci's work was obviously somewhat stylized to cater for Western Christian sensibilities.
C'mon guys .. The Real Face Of Jesus
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Correction: I heard 'sold at $400 million', yet apparently that price
was not the final deal. Also my Da Vinci should have been da Vinci.
Christie’s sells long-lost Salvator Mundi, artwork billed as ‘biggest
discovery of the 21st century’, for $400m plus auction house premium
People take photos after Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi painting was displayed
in Hong Kong in October. The artwork sold for $400m at auction.
Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
Edward Helmore in New York
Wednesday 15 November 2017 20.24 EST
First published on Wednesday 15 November 2017 19.56 EST
Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has sold at Christie’s in New York for $450.3m, including auction house premium, shattering the world record for any work of art sold at auction.
The sale generated a sustained 20 minutes of tense telephone bidding as the auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen juggled rival suitors before a packed crowd of excited onlookers in the salesroom. At one point, Pylkkanen remarked: “Historic moment, we’ll wait” as the the bidding went back and forth, pausing at just over $200m as it rose to break the auction record.
At one point, a telephone bidder jumped in, pushing the price from $332m to $350m. The bidding then resumed: $353m, $355m. A jump to $370. A jump to $400m.
“Thank you all for your bidding,” said Pykklanen. “Four hundred million selling here at Christie’s. The piece is sold.”
The saleroom erupted in cheers and applause.
The sale places Salvator Mundi as the highest-priced work sold at auction, including Pablo Picasso’s 1955 Women of Algiers (Version O), sold for $179.4m, and Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917-18 Reclining Nude, sold for $170.4m. Record private sales are believed to include $250m for a painting by Paul Cézanne and $300m for a Paul Gauguin.
Previewing the lot last month, Christie’s described the painting of Christ holding a crystal orb in his left hand and raising his right in benediction as “the biggest discovery of the 21st century”.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/15/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-auction
da Vinci's work was obviously somewhat stylized to cater for Western Christian sensibilities.
C'mon guys .. The Real Face Of Jesus
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119287160
.. near bottom here .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=119418290
See also:
Alex Jones FARTS During Live Show!! WTF??
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=136237608
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