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. 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 A long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting, which depicts Jesus Christ, sold at auction for more than $450 million on Nov. 15, 2017. (Image credit: Leonardo da Vinci) 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 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 The art market How Salvator Mundi became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction Was the $400m fetched by Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece due to its exceptional quality - or .

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