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1 Apr 2019 21:42
In November 2017, a portrait of Jesus Christ by Leonardi da Vinci entitled Salvator Mundi sold at a Christie's New York auction for a whopping $450,312,500 USD; a monumental sale price that makes it the world's most expensive painting. The anonymous bidder of the artwork was later discovered to be the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman. A month after the auction, the Abu Dhabi culture department made a public statement expressing that it had acquired the painting to display it in the Louvre...
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