And then amid. The Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci. An attempt to psychoanalyze the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi.' Tim Schneider , November 17, 2017 The scene at Christie's New York on November 15. Everyone spoke with the caveat that we could never really know what the Codex is worth unless it actually goes up for auction. The bidding then resumed: $353m, $355m. a 2011 exhibition at the National Gallery in London, Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, Kim Kardashian was photographed next to it. Leonardo spent 17 years in Milan, until Ludovicos fall from power in 1499. In this room, inon the telephone rather, at $28 million. But he went even beyond that. The original one is now located at Muse du Louvre, Paris. The New York Times confirmed rumours that the Louvre wouldn't accede to bin Salman's demand that his painting be displayed in the same room as the Mona Lisa, giving it near-equal status. Using monthly averages gives slightly different numbers, most significantly for paintings sold early or late in a year with significant inflation. However, we should probably note that it seems unlikely that as the owner of the Codex, Gates would actually do this. They arrive in the wake of Ben Lewis's high-profile 2019 book, The Last Leonardo, and dozens of articles. TINDERA: Hammer is also the great-grandfather of Hollywood actor Armie Hammer. His was the last name on the 1988 provenance list; painting came from "a private collection in Arizona". I expected to pay much more. Later in 2002, Thomson donated his private collection, including the Rubens, to the. According to the Christie's auction catalogue for the 1994 sale, the Codex was described as being in good and stable condition. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. The Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold At Auctions 10. 1. He was described in our Forbes 400 issue of the magazine that year as both a hard worker and brutally candid.. The current record price is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c.1500). [3] The alleged vandalism attempt on Sunday left the painting's glass covered in cake frosting. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and engineer who is best known for his paintings, notably the Mona Lisa (c. 150319) and the Last Supper (149598). TINDERA: I'm looking through a copy of whats now called the Codex Leicester, which I purchased online for about $30. ROBERT SIMON: My name is Robert Simon. In the days leading up the the sale, Christies produced a video of celebrities viewing the work, among them Leonardo DiCaprio and Patti Smith. Mona Lisa. Saviour for Sale opens in the US on 17 September. Rybolovlev resold Te Fare in February 2017 at Christie's in London for $25 million. There are Leonardo's drawings of the head and bust of Leda; a famous drawing was done in 1506 by Raphael; a red chalk drawing which may have been done by an assistant to Leonardo; a picture by Bugiardini which was based upon Leonardo's original cartoon (done in 1504); another copy probably by Francesco Melzi and based on Leonardo's second cartoon And one of the other, one of the principles and differences between, say an auction estimate and an appraisaland this is for what we call fair market value appraisalis that we come up with a single value, understanding that it's very rare that we kind of hit the bull's eye, but that is the opinion of the appraiser. Hi, Chase. The Nahmad family bought Suprematist Composition in 2008 at Sotheby's, New York, for $60,002,500 ($76million in 2021 dollars) from the heirs of Kazimir Malevich. At the height of the auction, as many of six bidders were in play. In The Lost Leonardo, a grinning Bouvier says his exploits are just business as usual: "you buy low and you sell high." Thanks for joining me. It would not draw more than the Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450 million. This means the Codex is certainly one of the world's most valuable pieces of art. What was Leonardo da Vincis family like? This episode was reported by Michela Tindera, produced by Michela Tindera and Jonathan Palmer, with additional research by Sue Radlauer. I'll give everyone time. It then disappeared again until it was bought at a small U.S. auction house in 2005. CBS CLIP, BILL GATES: Well, that's simply based on taking the stock I own in Microsoft and doing some type of multiplication. The painting, which dates to around 1500, was lost to history for more than 200 years, was damaged and badly restored, and was sold and resold as a minor work, probably by a Leonardo acolyte. Robert Simon told us that he thought it would not sell for less than $150 million. From about 1483 to 1486, he worked on the altar painting The Virgin of the Rocks, a project that led to 10 years of litigation between the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, which commissioned it, and Leonardo; for uncertain purposes, this legal dispute led Leonardo to create another version of the work in about 1508. Amid all of that the Codex went back to Christie's in 1994, where it was once again expected to bring $10 million. The winning bidder would later be revealed to be Saudi Arabia's Prince. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. That included footing the bill for not only the Codex he purchased for the $5 million in 1980, but also the tens of millions of dollars spent creating his own art museum in Los Angeles. Rybolovlev resold Gauguin's Otahi before 2017 for less than $50 million. PETERSON-WITHORN: Armand placed the winning bid and paid about $5.6 million for the Codex, which was less than the roughly $10 million that it was reported experts thought it might sell for. Two of his most important worksthe Battle of Anghiari and the Leda, neither of them completedhave survived only in copies. TINDERA: That's right. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. But even then, many Leonardo experts were dubious that the painting had more than a few brush strokes by him, and those doubts have ramped up ever since. Then I went to those other items that were of kind of the same rarity as works of the Renaissance that had been on the market. A Leonardo, even one as dulled as this, could prove an amusing conversation piece. She spent years restoring the painting, and passionately defends its authenticity in precise detail, pointing out the pentimento under Christ's thumb or a curve of his mouth that could only be Leonardo's. "When we chose the title," Andreas Dalsgaard, a producer and a writer of The Lost Leonardo, tells BBC Culture, "the inspiration was partly that the painting is lost right now and the truth is lost, but it was also inspired by movies like the Indiana Jones movies that are full of treasures and treasure hunts.". Ludovicos fall in 1499 sealed the fate of this abortive undertaking, which was perhaps the grandest concept of a monument in the 15th century. Re-sold for 12m to Stavros Niarchos in 1993. Source: pinterest.com. ARCHIVAL CLIP OF ARMAND HAMMER: I guess I'm wearing a great many hats. A jump to $370. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. It's now been determined that his painting is not, in fact, a da Vinci. Since the painting first arrived at the Louvre in 1815, "Mona Lisa" has received plenty of love letters and flowers from admirers. She is a captivating, elegant presence on screen, with a whispery voice and wide eyes behind signature black or red-framed glasses. Freeman's was founded in 1805, and is actually America's oldest auction house. Billionaires just live in a different world. And it was a challenge. The Met has since returned the coffin to Egypt. Or is it? [8] The actual purchase price was not disclosed, because of a confidentiality agreement attached to the private sale. The painting disappeared from 1763 until 1900, when it was bought by Sir Charles Robinson as a work by Bernardino Luini, a follower of Leonardo. When Leonardo was about 15, his father, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Florentine community, apprenticed him to artist Andrea del Verrocchio. Its the zenith of my career as an auctioneer. (Swiss authorities investigated him for defrauding Rybolovlev over several artworks, but this year closed the case without charging him.) One of the most famous paintings in the world, the Last Supper was commissioned by Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan and Leonardo's patron during his first stay in that city, for the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. He was known to be fastidious in personal care, keeping a beard neat and trim in later age, and to dress in colorful clothing in styles that dismissed current customs. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time. Six-million five hundred thousand, seven million. The painting was sold in November 2017,[1][2] through the auction house Christie's in New York City. Nineteen million on the telephone. But many experts on camera and elsewhere in the press think he leapt to an early conclusion. Fifty-fivefive-point-five million dollars to start it. That these tales can work in a podcast, where no one can even see the work being described, suggests how much the allure of today's art-crime stories is in the skulduggery and mystery, not aesthetics. When he was about 15, his father, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Florence community, apprenticed him to artist Andrea del Verrocchio. Pierre-Auguste Renoir "Bal du moulin de la Galette" (1876): $154.7 million 6. Kenneth Griffin acquired it in 2004 from Wynn. As a painter, Leonardo completed six works in the 17 years in Milan. So Gates sort of went out and bought the ultimate book. "A Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92 Million at Sotheby's Auction", "Christie's 'Secret Weapon' in Rockefeller's 'Sale of the Century' | Auctions News | THE VALUE | Art News", "Claude Monet (18401926), Nymphas en fleur", Greatest German Renaissance Madonna sold by prince, Vincent van Gogh (18531890) Laboureur dans un champ, U.K. Buys Titian Diana Painting for 50 Million Pounds, Titian deal paves way for next acquisition, "Mark Rothko: No. By 1508, Leonardo returned to Milan, working for the French rulers of the city. TINDERA: That's right. On July 12, 2011, $75M was equivalent to 53M. But there would, there are people in the world that would probably do that. So it doesn't really look like a notebook anymore. (or simply Leonardo) (Leonardo diser Piero ser da Vinci) (Italian, 1452-1519). Mona Lisa is not only Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting but the entire world's most famous painting. A scene from Saviour for Sale, a second documentary about the Salvator Mundi, by French journalist Antoine Vitkine (Credit: Zadig Productions). Before this, the highest absolute price paid for a painting was 8.1 million (20.4 million in 2021 currency) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi at Christie's in London on 18 April 1985. Last Supper (c. 1495-98) Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com. TINDERA: Robert Simon is perhaps best known in the art world for having a very close connection to a painting that is synonymous with money, power and controversy: the Salvator Mundi. For those who don't know it, it's a painting of Christ that sold at a Christie's auction in 2017 for $450 million, which is by far the most expensive work of art that's ever sold at auction. ", Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold by Christie's in 2017 for a record-breaking $450 million (Credit: Photo by Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images for Christie's Auction House).