But the cost of a painting doesn’t necessarily determine its value when persistent doubts remain about its authenticity. The mysterious buyer turned out to be a Saudi prince, the Minister of Culture under the country’s ambitious new ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Possibly painted (at least in part) by Leonardo Da Vinci, Salvator Mundi leaped above all previous auction records with its 2017 sale by Christie’s New York for more than $450 million. A notorious recent case concerns the celebrated Salvator Mundi. Authenticating artwork has never been an exact science.
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