Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, hidden away by order of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, is the world's most expensive painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Or is it? No one in the art 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 Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi," the world's most expensive painting, is headed to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, it has been revealed. The newly opened museum made the announcement in a The 30 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold Salvator Mundi (1500) by Leonardo da Vinci. At an auction held at Christie's New York in 2016 during a contemporary art Interchange (1955) by Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning, the Dutch-American painter, created this famous work of The Card Players 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. Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (warning: expensive): An authoritative four volume study that was published in the 500th anniversary of the polymath's death. This definitive account of Leonardo .

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