{"id":8775,"date":"2017-11-15T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2017-11-21T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T20:56:55","slug":"last-leo-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/15\/last-leo-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Leo Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/market\/last-known-leonardo-da-vinci-painting-just-sold-1149032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from artnet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>The Last Known Painting by Leonardo da Vinci Just Sold for $450.3 Million<\/h1>\n<p>The 500-year-old painting is, by far, the most expensive work ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/eileen-kinsella-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eileen Kinsella<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd. 2017.\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2017\/10\/Mundi_framed-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd. 2017.\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s Salvator Mundi. Courtesy of Christie&#8217;s Images Ltd. 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of anticipation, it finally happened: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/leonardo-da-vinci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>\u2018s <em>Salvator Mundi<\/em> (circa 1500), billed as the last known painting by the Renaissance master in private hands, sold at Christie\u2019s for\u00a0$450.3 million. It is, by far, the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. In fact, the price is more than double the next most expensive work ever sold,\u00a0Picasso\u2019s <em>Les femmes d\u2019Alger (Version \u2018O\u2019)<\/em>, which fetched $179.4 million in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The work went to an anonymous client of Alex Rotter, Christie\u2019s global co-head of contemporary art. Before a packed salesroom and scores of camera phones held aloft, bidding opened at $70 million. At $190 million, five bidders\u2014four on the phones and one in the room\u2014were still chasing the painting.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-minute contest eventually came down to Rotter and\u00a0Francois De Poortere, the head of Christie\u2019s Old Master painting department in New York.<\/p>\n<p>At $352 million, auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen produced a glass of ice water from behind the rostrum and took a sip.<\/p>\n<p>After a protracted bidding war in which Rotter\u2019s client continued to bid in increments as large as $30 million\u2014and\u00a0De Poortere\u2019s client bid in smaller steps of around $2\u20135 million\u2014the work hammered down for $400 million to a flurry of applause (and a few gasps). With the auction house\u2019s fees, the final price was $450.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/market\/last-known-leonardo-da-vinci-painting-just-sold-1149032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet The Last Known Painting by Leonardo da Vinci Just Sold for $450.3 Million The 500-year-old painting is, by far, the most expensive work ever sold at auction. Eileen Kinsella Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s Salvator Mundi. Courtesy of Christie&#8217;s Images Ltd. 2017. After weeks of anticipation, it finally happened: Leonardo da Vinci\u2018s Salvator Mundi (circa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}