The world’s most expensive painting, the ‘Salvator Mundi’, may be the work of Leonardo da Vinci after all, with several media reports contradicting doubts raised in a French documentary.
The painting of Christ has not been seen in public since it was bought for $450 million (about R6.6 billion) by the Saudi royal family at a 2017 Christie’s auction.
New documentary on ‘Salvator Mundi’
The Savior for Sale, a documentary by filmmaker Antoine Vitkine due to run on French TV this week, claims the Saudis withheld the painting from a 2019 exhibition at The Louvre after its experts concluded it was produced by Da Vinci’s workshop and that the master only “contributed” to it.
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Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit
The Cy Twombly Foundation is taking the Paris museum to court over a renovation it calls an “aberration.” The timing of the dispute has raised suspicions.
The newly repainted Salle des Bronzes in the Louvre. The museum is being renovated while it is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Credit.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
Published March 5, 2021Updated March 12, 2021
PARIS In the midst of a pandemic, with empty galleries, shuttered doors and plunging revenues, the Louvre faces new turbulence: a legal fight over the color of its walls.