UNVEILLING CEREMONY OF “SALAVTOR MUNDI” – Leonardo da Vinci
- GREATEST REDISCOVERY OF THE 21ST CENTURY
- ONE OF FEWER THAN 20 PAINTINGS BY THE GREAT MASTER KNOWN TO EXIST
- OFFERED AT CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
- PUBLIC EXHIBITION NOW OPEN IN HONG KONG
- ESTIMATED AT AROUND US$100 MILLION
*CREDIT TO CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. [2017] Text by Christie’s Text sub-edited and posted by Axel Ritenis,Editor ,Connoisseur Magazine
As fascinating as any best-selling thriller, the rediscovery of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, one of fewer than 20 surviving paintings accepted as from the artist’s own hand, has caused a worldwide media sensation. The next chapter will see this masterpiece being offered at Christie’s in New York（Leonardo da Vinci In 2011, the dramatic public unveiling of Salvator Mundi (‘Saviour of the World’) in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at The National Gallery in London caused a worldwide media sensation.
