Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sells for a never seen record price!
Sold for $450,312,500 (Euros 386.312.500) at Christie’s New York “Leonardo is an artist who’s been in dialog with every artist who’s followed him—think Warhol, think Jean-Michel Basquiat—and as such, his work is absolutely timeless,” said Loic Gouzer, co-chairman of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, during an October 10 announcement of the inclusion of Leonardo’s stunning and evocative Salvator Mundi (1500) in its evening sale of postwar and contemporary art in New York on November 15. “As you may know, at Christie’s we like to push boundaries. We like to disrupt things a bit.” And disrupt they did Wednesday night at their Rockefeller Center headquarters. At 7:45 P.M., after a 20-minute bidding war, the rare-oil-on-panel (catalogue Lot 9B) was hammered in at $400 (Euros 338) million by auctioneer and global president of Christie’s Jussi Pylkkänen, more than quadrupling its unpublished presale estimate of $100 (Euros 84.66) million and easily surpassing the previous recor...