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Art market: Vinci excepted, the old masters behind the moderns

2021-01-20T18:10:44.831Z


The "leonardomania" obscures the still important difference between the old masters and the moderns in the art market.


The sale of

Salvator mundi

in 2017, at Christie's New York, was extraordinary.

The reasons for an auction at 450.3 million dollars breaking all the ceilings?

An attribution to the very rare Leonardo da Vinci (no more than twenty works in his corpus) rather than to the workshop.

This was recorded by some of the great art historians specializing in Tuscany and endorsed by the National Gallery.

Six years earlier, the London museum had in fact included unconditionally this Christ the Redeemer, freshly and abundantly restored, in an exhibition he devoted to the painter's Milan years.

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The riddle of

Salvator mundi

Moreover, in New York the sale had been conceived with the greatest care and preceded by a great noise.

In 1993, the

Salvator Mundi

fell into the hands of the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier, for $ 80 million, who sold it for $ 127.5 million to the Russian boss of AS Monaco Dmitri Rybolovlev.

This trajectory made inaudible those who objected to the absence

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Source: lefigaro

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