Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi smashed records when it was sold at a Christie's auction in New York for $450 million (£323 million), making it the most expensive painting to be sold
Salvator Mundi, oil on walnut panel believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500. (more) Salvator Mundi, painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that was completed about 1500. It became the most expensive work of art ever sold when it was auctioned at Christie's, New York, on November 15, 2017, for $450.3 million.
As well as becoming the most expensive painting in history, going for $450m (£326m) at auction, Salvator Mundi was denounced by many as a fake and subsequently vanished from view.
But for many in the initially jam-packed Rockefeller Plaza salesroom, the auction lasted the 19 minutes it took to sell a single work for $400 million ($450 million with fees), making it the most expensive piece ever purchased at auction, and likely the most expensive artwork ever sold.
Explore and monitor how. A Leonardo da Vinci painting has sold for a record-breaking $450 million this week, at Christie's auction house in New York. The figure more than doubles the existing record for an artwork sold at auction: a $179.4 million bid for a Picasso in 2015.
One of the world's leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci has said a delay in exhibiting Salvator Mundi, the world's most expensive painting, is not due to questions about its authenticity.
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