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Art Show Picasso to Pollock Woman With a Fan Modigliani

A Leonardo da Vinci painting has sold for a record-breaking $450 meg this week, at Christie'southward auction house in New York. The figure more than than doubles the existing record for an artwork sold at sale: a $179.4 meg bid for a Picasso in 2015.

The painting - a depiction of Jesus called Salvator Mundi - sold for the comparatively small sum of $10,000 12 years ago. Some experts believed it had been painted by one of Da Vinci'southward followers.

At that place are some critics who withal question the work's authorship, simply the majority of scholars believe it exist accurate.

The doubts did not dampen the 19 minutes of behest, during which the painting climbed from a guaranteed pre-auction bid of $100 1000000.

The work had been painted over so many times when it was acquired in 2005 that it was thought to be a copy

Image: REUTERS

Salvator Mundi is the only Da Vinci painting in individual hands and is one of fewer than 20 the old master painted in oil.

King Louis XII of France commissioned the 44cm x 66cm painting in 1605, during the aforementioned period as the Mona Lisa. Information technology was later recorded in King Charles I of England's collection. Betwixt 1763 and 1900 information technology disappeared, until it was bought at auction by a British art collector. The face and pilus of the subject had been painted over, making it await similar a copy. It was presumed to be past a follower of Da Vinci called Bernandino Luini.

The London art collector's family sold it in 1958 for a paltry £45.

In 2005, a group of art dealers acquired it for $10,000. They spent 6 years restoring and investigating the painting before declaring it was by Leonardo himself. London's National Gallery exhibited it in 2011. It was the first "discovery" of a Da Vinci since 1909, and became known as the "lost Leonardo".

9 other jaw-droppingly expensive artworks

2. Interchange past Willem de Kooning, $300 million

 Willem de Kooning's Interchange is currently displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago

This abstract landscape by the Dutch-American painter commanded the highest toll ever paid in a private auction for an artwork. Hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C Griffin bought it, spending $200 million on Jackson Pollock's Number 17A at the aforementioned fourth dimension. (Run across number five below).

3. The Card Players past Paul Cézanne, $250 meg

 The Card Players series was painted in Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s

When Qatar's Royal Family unit bought one of Cézanne's five versions of this scene in 2011, they paid double the existing record for an artwork at auction. The men who posed for the painting included farmhands on Cézanne's estate, who may have been surprised by the price their depiction reached.

4. Nafea Fan Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin, $210 meg

 Gauguin painted Nafea Fan Ipoipo on his first visit to Tahiti in 1892

French postal service-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin painted it during his first trip to Tahiti, where he later lived for six years. When the artwork changed hands - after two years of negotiations - for a reported $300 one thousand thousand in 2015, it was called the most expensive painting always sold. Only a High Court lawsuit over an alleged outstanding $10 meg sale commission revealed the buyer had paid only $210 million.

5. Number 17A by Jackson Pollock, $200 million

 Jackson Pollock's technique involved pouring and dripping paint onto canvas

This was the second artwork bought in a 2015 $500 one thousand thousand bargain past hedge fund manager Kenneth C Griffin. Pollock, an American abstract-impressionist known for his style of drip painting, also created the 11th nearly valuable artwork, No. 5, 1948. Information technology sold for $140 million in 2006.

6. No. vi (Violet, Green and Scarlet) by Mark Rothko, $186 1000000

 Rothko's block colours works were painted in his late period, from 1946 onwards

This painting, forth with 36 others, is function of an ongoing court boxing brought by its buyer, Russian fertilizer tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev, confronting his art dealer, Yves Bouvier. Rybolovlev has defendant the dealer of defrauding him to the tune of hundreds of millions by overcharging him for paintings acquired on his behalf. Bouvier denies all charges.

vii. Pair of portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit by Rembrandt, $180 1000000

Rembrandt's Portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit at the Louvre Museum in Paris

Image: REUTERS/Etienne Laurent/Pool

Rembrants painted the portraits to celebrate the wedding ceremony of Maerten and Oopjen in 1634. The pictures have never been separated. They were bought in a joint buy by the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum in 2015, with each gallery contributing 50%.

8. Les Femmes d'Algers ("Version O") by Pablo Picasso, $179.4 meg

Pablo Picasso's Les Femmes d'Algers before its sale in 2015

Image: REUTERS/Darren Ornitz

Inspired by Delacroix'southward Les Femmes d'Algers (The Women of Algiers), this was the last of fifteen versions Picasso painted. He started the series six weeks after his fellow creative person Henri Matisse died, and considered it a tribute to Matisse's manner. Information technology held the record for nearly expensive artwork sold at auction for more than two years, before Salvator Mundi was sold for $450.3 1000000.

9. Nu Couché past Amedeo Modigliani, $170.iv million

Nu Couché caused a scandal when first exhibited in 1917

Prototype: REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Depicting a naked woman on a reddish sofa, this painting acquired a scandal when it was first shown in Paris in 1917. Later a crowd formed exterior the gallery hosting Modigliani's showtime (and only) solo evidence, the police arrived and shut down the exhibition immediately. It was bought by Chinese former taxi driver-turned-stock-market-billionaire Liu Yiqian to display in his own museums in Shanghai.

10. Masterpiece past Roy Lichtenstein, $165 million

 Masterpiece uses the Ben-Day dot technique for which Lichtenstein became well-known

Masterpiece was a satirical commentary on Lichtenstein'due south own career, which was taking off when he made the artwork in 1962. Masterpiece's seller, philanthropist Agnes Gund, used proceeds from its buy in 2017 past hedge fund founder Steve Cohen to offset a fund for criminal justice reform chosen Fine art for Justice. It aims to reduce mass incarceration.

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Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/leonardo-da-vinci-most-expensive-artworks/

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