In 2017 Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. What was the final price in US dollars, fees included?
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About 450 million USD
In 1958 the same painting, then believed to be a copy, had changed hands in London for just 45 pounds.
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An auction price cannot be calculated, only bracketed. Before 2017 the auction record was about 180 million dollars, for a Picasso, and the largest private sales were rumoured at around 300 million. A rediscovered Leonardo, with fewer than 20 paintings in existence, could plausibly double the old record: 300 to 400 million. The hammer fell at about 450 million US dollars, fees included.
Source: Christie's
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