(ANSA) - NEW YORK, JUNE 08 - The Wall Street Journal unveils secret plans of Saudi Arabia for the most expensive painting in history. The Salvator Mundi could end up in a museum still to be built at the gates of Riad.
According to the bible of high finance, this museum was part of a billion dollar plan that involves the realization of at least 12 new artistic institutions. The portrait of Christ blessing attributed to Leonardo, in the center a yellow on the identity of its true buyer in November 2017 from Christie's, disappeared from circulation after the abstention to which it was beaten for over 450 million dollars. The painting should have been exhibited since September 2018 at the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, but that project ended without explanation on a binary death between voices that placed Leonardo on the "thousand and one night" yacht of the strong man of Riad, the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
"The new Saudi ministry of culture will keep the picture in storage until it can build a museum on purpose," writes the Wall Street Journal, citing well-informed sources. The plans are part of a vast initiative to transform Saudi Arabia into a new international artistic center in the hope of attracting tourists and adding at least $ 27 billion to the country's economy. (HANDLE).
For the Salvator Mundi a new museum in Riad
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The Wall Street Journal reveals Saudi Arabia's secret plans for the most expensive painting in history. The Salvator Mundi could end up in a museum still to be built at the gates of Riad. (HANDLE)