DonRocks Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 On 5/12/2015 at 12:50 AM, DonRocks said: The record price for "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" ($142.4 million) was broken today: "Les Femmes d'Algers (Version "O") by Picasso has set the all-time record, going for $179.4 million. Well, this record was annihilated today by a da Vinci: "500-Year-Old Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450 Million at Auction" by Michelle Miller on cbsnews.com Presenting Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci, 1 of only 15 surviving da Vincis in the world: Assuming no catastrophic, global meltdowns, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect a billion-dollar artwork to be sold at auction sometime before 2050 (*) If you're worth $50 billion, you can buy real estate, you can buy extremely expensive art, you can buy sports franchises, and ... the list is already starting to dwindle. Can you imagine insuring such a thing? --- (*) ETA - Ha! Nov 16, 2017 - "When Will an Auction House Sell the First $1bn Painting?" by Sophie Christie and Patrick Scott on telegraph.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaked Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Or it's a fake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 No frame? WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 3 hours ago, Tweaked said: Or it's a fake You know, this is going to sound really stupid coming from a dilettante, but I've seen pictures of every da Vinci, and I always wondered why someone was sure enough that this was The Man to shell out half-a-billion dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 "A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There's No Sign of It." by David D. Kirkpatrick on nytimes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaked Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I was under the impression that the painting was good to end up at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Tweaked said: I was under the impression that the painting was good to end up at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. So was everyone else; paintings like this seem to be in vogue as a way to launder the dirtiest of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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