Leonardo de Vinci sets auction record

On a historic night at Christie’s in New York, Salvator Mundi, a depiction of Christ as “Saviour of the World” by Leonardo da Vinci, sold for $450,312,500, becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction

Former auction record for painting held by Picasso’s “Women of Algiers” which fetched $179.4 million in 2015

MOST EXPENSIVE ARTWORKS           Auction       Private sale
Artist               Title                              Year of sale   Price
Leonardo da Vinci    Salvator Mundi (circa 1506-13)         2017      $450.3m
Willem de Kooning    Interchange (1955)                     2015      $303.0m
Paul Gauguin         When Will You Marry? (1892)            2015      $300.0m
Paul Cézanne         The Card Players (1893)                2011      $259.0m
Mark Rothko          No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) (1951)   2014      $186.0m
Pablo Picasso        Women of Algiers (1955)                2015      $179.4m
Pablo Picasso        The Dream (1932)                       2013      $155.0m
Francis Bacon        Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969)   2013      $142.4m
Alberto Giacometti   Pointing Man (1947)                    2015      $141.3m
Jackson Pollock      No. 5 (1948)                           2006      $140.0m
Willem de Kooning    Woman III (1953)                       2006      $137.5m
Gustav Klimt         Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) 2006      $135.0m


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