What was Leonardo da Vincis family like? Or is it? ARCHIVAL CLIP-STEPHEN MASSEY, CHRISTIES: The Leonardo da Vinci Codex Hammer. PETERSON-WITHORN: Exactly. MASSEY: At 16 million, 17 million. Joining me for this is Chase Peterson-Withorn, an editor on the Forbes wealth team. In total, Christies said, 27,000 people had seen the work on a pre-sale tour with stops in Hong Kong, London and San Francisco. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. From about 1483 to 1486, he worked on the altar painting The Virgin of the Rocks, a project that led to 10 years of litigation between the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, which commissioned it, and Leonardo; for uncertain purposes, this legal dispute led Leonardo to create another version of the work in about 1508. His shares were of limited value when he was given them, but by the time of Facebook's IPO they were valued at around $200 million. Apparently, Hammer had made a habit of buying things with Occidental Petroleum money. In 1493 the clay model of the horse was put on public display on the occasion of the marriage of Emperor Maximilian to Bianca Maria Sforza, and preparations were made to cast the colossal figure, which was to be 16 feet (5 metres) high. Probably, they knew there was room before the end of the competition., They wanted to get the job done quicker, but it still took a long time.. The Louvre very much wanted to include it in its grand exhibition to celebrate Leonardo's 500th anniversary in 2019. SIMON: These went into the mix. An exceptional case is graffiti artist David Choe, who accepted payment in shares for painting graffiti art in the headquarters of a fledgling Facebook. He was the auctioneer at the 1994 Christie's sale. The US art critic Jerry Saltz rails in The Lost Leonardo that "it's not even a good painting", much less a great Leonardo, while true believers gush that seeing it in person is a transcendent experience. Leonardo da Vinci was described as having a gracious but reserved personality and an elegant bearing. The 16th-century writer Giorgio Vasari indicated that Leonardo cared little for money but was very generous toward his friends and assistants. The subjects range from Inigo Philbrick, criminally charged with defrauding clients by selling more than 100% of shares in artworks, to a golden Egyptian coffin whose smuggled past came to light after Kim Kardashian was photographed next to it at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute gala. See a gallery of the world's most expensive paintings, Leonardo da Vincis Salvator Mundi sold for $400 million at Christies ($450.3m, including auction house premium), One of four versions of The Scream created by Munch and the only one that is privately owned. After the sale, Pylkknen said the sale had been his ultimate privilege. I've worked as well as an art appraiser. But if our maximum value isn't $4 billion, then what is it? TINDERA: Now the audience in the room doesnt know this, but a representative for Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is bidding on the phone. Hammer somehow convinced the courts he was increasing shareholder value. SIMON: What it does is make you realize how important the fact that the Codex has survived intact is. In the film, the art historian Frank Zllner, who has compiled a catalogue raisonn of Leonardo's paintings, wryly calls the Salvator Mundi "a masterpiece by Dianne Modestini," who made it "more Leonardesque than Leonardo had done." However, weeks after the grand opening of his museum, where he planned to showcase the Codex and other art he had collected over the years, Hammer died at the age of 92. As a painter, Leonardo completed six works in the 17 years in Milan. That's why these valuations can be so tricky. Inside besides da Vinci's writings, there are also about 360 drawings and diagrams throughout the manuscript. Christies had also found placing the work, despite its celebrity, hard to fathom. In the days leading up the the sale, Christies produced a video of celebrities viewing the work, among them Leonardo DiCaprio and Patti Smith. 1503-1519). Self-portrait as Archangel Gabriel unveiled, Queen's Leonardo da Vinci drawings to be shown across UK cities, Salvator Mundi by Leonardo Da Vinci before and after restoration. So, you know, it's something I've sort of been following for, you know, a good part of my life. The painting was consigned to Christies by Dmitry Rybolovlev, 50, a Russian fertiliser oligarch who has been at the center of an art-world scandal involving claims that a Paris-based dealer, Yves Bouvier, cheated the collector out of as much as $1bn on sales of 38 artworks, including the Leonardo. Antique Heliogravure on wove paper after t.. 620: 1893 Leonardo da Vinci Bust of an Old Man in Roman Costume print signed Est: $ 500 - $ 700 View sold prices Feb. 05, 2023 KCM Galleries Cape Coral, FL, US Please select which sections you would like to print: Director, Central Institute for the History of Art, Munich, 194770. TINDERA: Simon talked about how there have been a certain subset of book dealers called "breakers," who made it their job to buy books and then tear them apart, selling their illustrated pages piece by piece. A Leonardo da Vinci painting has sold for a record-breaking $450 million this week, at Christie's auction house in New York. It then becomes a first edition of Moby Dick. Robert Simon told us that he thought it would not sell for less than $150 million. The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of 24.75 million (74.1 million in 2021 currency). The sale places Salvator Mundi as the highest-priced work sold privately or at auction, including Pablo Picassos 1955 Women of Algiers (Version O), sold for $179.4m, and Amedeo Modiglianis 1917-18 Reclining Nude, sold for $170.4m. At 18 million in this room. So if Saudi Arabia decides that culture is going to be the way it opens up and the Salvator Mundi is going to be a key player in that strategy and the Louvre is offering to exhibit it, then all those things are tied up together.". Leonardo da Vinci, (Italian: Leonardo from Vinci) (born April 15, 1452, Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence [Italy]died May 2, 1519, Cloux [now Clos-Luc], France), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Its the last painting by Leonardo, the greatest of all Renaissance artists, and it had an appeal to collectors from all parts of the world., Every major scholar of Leonardos work accepts the picture and has for the past decade, he said, addressing questions over the paintings authenticity and condition, adding: Its not in flawless condition, its 500 years old and absolutely has the presence and condition of a true Leonardo.. So next, we decided to try some sources who not only know Old Masters works, but they know da Vinci really well. PETERSON-WITHORN: Two were da Vinci drawings of draperies. They brought it to Dianne Modestini, a highly respected restorer, who removed decades of grime and overpainting, and was the first to suspect it might be a true Leonardo. At the same time, Bouvier was negotiating and eventually succeeded to buy the painting for $112 million from Ursula Ucicky, widow of, Some fear existed, that Portrait of Dr. Gachet had been cremated with the owner in 1996, but Gachet's portrait was privately resold to. [13][14], Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by non-Western artists. Our 1994 story said Hammer was a master at litigation, and the aggrieved shareholders had to settle to keep building costs at $60 million. It then disappeared again until it was bought at a small U.S. auction house in 2005. This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. Cole was the first to report, in March 2020, the existence of a 46-page booklet the Louvre prepared for publication but never released, which asserts that the piece is an authentic Leonardo. The writings in his notebooks suggest that he may have been a vegetarian, and there is also some speculation that he may have been gay. According to the provenance in the auction catalogue, a few Italian artists own the Codex after da Vinci's death, including a painter named Giuseppe Ghezzi, who apparently sold it in 1717 to Thomas Coke, a man who eventually became England's Earl of Leicester. Scholars have been unable to agree in their attributions of these works. In this episode of Priceless, staff writer Michela Tindera and deputy wealth editor Chase Peterson-Withorn explain how Forbes determines the value of a one-of-a-kind Leonardo da Vinci manuscript that Bill Gates purchased in 1994. Leonardo da vinci was an Artist, Scientist and Inventor.He was Born in April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. Among Leonardos pupils at this time were Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Ambrogio de Predis, Bernardino de Conti, Francesco Napoletano, Andrea Solari, Marco dOggiono, and Salai. That is still a question. The sale of Salvator Mundi, which was painted around 1500 and presumed lost until early this century, was Rybolovlevs largest to date. In The Lost Leonardo, Evan Beard, a Bank of America executive who deals with art as investment, talks about the common buyers' motive of using artworks as collateral for other financial manoeuvres. Kenneth Griffin acquired it in 2004 from Wynn. When Bill Gates bought the manuscript, rather than naming it the Codex Gates after himself, he decided to rename it the Codex Leicester after an earlier owner. This portrait was painted in Florence from 1474 to 1478. Some of the most eye-opening commentary in both films isn't even about art. PETERSON-WITHORN: Art is one of the toughest things we value for our lists, because the value is just so subjective, and you really don't know what something will sell for until it hits the auction block. This stands as the most expensive painting by a living artist. However, other critics have disagreed with the truth of that claim. Hence, every phenomenon perceived became an object of knowledge, and saper vedere (knowing how to see) became the great theme of his studies. Self Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. Most art world observers thought the Salvator Mundi would be the centrepiece of a new museum or art centre in the region, but the painting has not been glimpsed in public since. Leonardos gracious but reserved personality and elegant bearing were well-received in court circles. Freeman's was founded in 1805, and is actually America's oldest auction house. Leonardo da Vinci. At the press conference, Artnews reported, Gouzer spoke of the exceptional rarity of a work by Leonardo. Whereas Picasso and Warhol became wealthy men, van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 French francs (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch. Leonardo never married, but he had many close relationships with other artists and intellectuals as well as with his assistants. CBS CLIP, CONNIE CHUNG: You know, you may be the richest man in America, or at least the second-richest man in America. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime and that, filtered by historical criticism, has remained undimmed to the present day rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behaviour. Before the auction opened, the 500-year-old Leonardo da Vinci painting was estimated to sell for $100 million. TINDERA: I'm looking through a copy of whats now called the Codex Leicester, which I purchased online for about $30. But no one thought it was still worth the $30.8 million Gates paid for it. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Life of Leonardo da Vinci, a Short Biography 1. The documentary covers much of the same ground as The Lost Leonardo, but less stylishly, with too many stock establishing shots of cities. Rybolovlev resold Gauguin's Otahi before 2017 for less than $50 million. All episodes of the Art Bust podcast are available now. And if you liked this story,sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called The Essential List. A jump to $400m. Read about our approach to external linking. The disciples, devastated by Christ stating one of them would cause his death, convey their feelings dramatically through their body language. It looks interesting. He had just gotten married to Melinda Gates on New Year's Day of that year and was in the middle of building his multi-million-dollar mega mansion, Xanadu 2.0. The triptych had probably been reassembled by the Italian collector Francesco De Simone Niquesa, but were resold to a person in the US before 2013, This is the small version of the painting; the large version is at the. Christie's billed the painting as an original work by Leonardo da Vinci himself. Soon, the painting was on its way to Christie's. TINDERA: That's right. In 1472 Leonardo was accepted into the painters guild of Florence, but he remained in his teachers workshop for five more years, after which time he worked independently in Florence until 1481. "A Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92 Million at Sotheby's Auction", "Christie's 'Secret Weapon' in Rockefeller's 'Sale of the Century' | Auctions News | THE VALUE | Art News", "Claude Monet (18401926), Nymphas en fleur", Greatest German Renaissance Madonna sold by prince, Vincent van Gogh (18531890) Laboureur dans un champ, U.K. Buys Titian Diana Painting for 50 Million Pounds, Titian deal paves way for next acquisition, "Mark Rothko: No. Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman the epitome of a true Renaissance man. An artist by disposition and endowment, he considered his eyes to be his main avenue to knowledge; to Leonardo, sight was mans highest sense because it alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty. PETERSON-WITHORN: The person who ended up winning the auction was Armand Hammer, the 82-year-old multimillionaire chairman of oil and gas giant Occidental Petroleum. TINDERA: So how much is the Codex worth today? And so I think it's, you know, not so much, Let's look at it and see what would happen if we took scissors to it and divided it up. But just to say, Here we have something of such significance, partly because it has survived 500 years without, you know, being destroyed.. [15] Not listed here in this list is Chinese painter Wang Shaofei's The High Sun, which was appraised for $74 million in 2017.[16]. She even has her own mailbox. People who often would never get a chance to visit the great museums of the world. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. The artwork alone garners thousands of visitors from around the world to the famous gallery it is placed in - the . In New York last night, he said he had never doubted the piece would break records. The rest are owned by museums around the world. While dozens of manuscripts like the Codex have managed to survive the centuries intact, the Codex Leicester is the only da Vinci notebook that is still in private hands. The Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold At Auctions 10. Renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic Vitruvian Man. According to some sources, the painting had been sold by Argentinian art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier for $300 million,[9] but the price was not confirmed by any of the parties involved.[10]. A Malevich Suprematist Composition sold for $85.8 million at Christies, breaking the record for a work of Russian art. No one in the art world knows for sure where the painting is. And how does that help us come up with a number for today? Twenty-eight million dollars, then. So it doesn't really look like a notebook anymore. Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, hidden away by order of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, is the world's most expensive painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Both sold at Sotheby's in Monaco on the same date in 1989. What by Leonardo can we compare it with? That's because da Vinci wrote it backwards, which is what he did for much of what he wrote. for the highest price sold. [6] Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van Gogh. The original one is now located at Muse du Louvre, Paris. Explore the life of Italian painter, architect, engineer, and humanist Leonardo da Vinci. To him, it was just his collection of scientific observations and illustrations and writings, mostly focused on the study of water. I cannot say if he or she will want to be public.. He was listed in the register of the royal household as pictor et ingeniarius ducalis (painter and engineer of the duke). In cases like these, that's why we have to turn to the experts who know more about this than us. So first, we looked to experts in the world of rare books and manuscripts to learn about the qualities that make a book valuable. Later in 2002, Thomson donated his private collection, including the Rubens, to the. They bought it from an auction in Louisiana for just over $1,000. At $28 million. TINDERA: Gates is up against a group from a bank in Milan thats sitting in the front of the Christie's salesroom. There was a bit of an odd snag with the purchase, and Forbes reported on it in 1994. In particular, Qi Baishi's Twelve Landscape Screens was sold for $140.8 million in 2017. The bidding then resumed: $353m, $355m. MASSEY: Still with me then at five-million five hundred thousand, five-million eight hundred thousand, five-million eight hundred thousand. In The Lost Leonardo, a grinning Bouvier says his exploits are just business as usual: "you buy low and you sell high." But as it turned out, he also had his own personal connection to the Codex. That sold for $3.6 million at Sotheby's in New York in 1986. After his death, Hammer's estate became tied up in a series of new lawsuits that began with the niece of Hammer's late wife suing for a piece of his art collection and other assets. CLIP OF BILL GATES: So here, you're just seeing the page exactly as it looked to da Vinci. He's gone to extra lengths to make this work as a whole more accessible to the public. We felt that offering this painting within the context of our postwar and contemporary evening sale is a testament to the enduring relevance of this picture.. This is the mirror where we flip it around, and now here it is in English. And seeing these works enjoyed by people all over the world. MASSEY: Nineteen-million five hundred thousand I'll be happy to take. Last Supper, Italian Cenacolo, one of the most famous artworks in the world, painted by Leonardo da Vinci probably between 1495 and 1498 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Culture, Worklife and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday. For example, on June 25, 2019, the American hedge fund manager J. Tomilson Hill bought a recently rediscovered Judith and Holofernes (1607) attributed to Caravaggio, two days before it would have been auctioned in Toulouse. So it's difficult to get much better than someone who has actually appraised an item. The New York Times confirmed rumours that the Louvre wouldn't accede to bin Salman's demand that his painting be displayed in the same room as the Mona Lisa, giving it near-equal status. PETERSON-WITHORN: And the fifth was a drawing by Michelangelo called The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist, which also sold to the Getty Museum in 1993, for $6.3 million. And Lewis points out that as the art market has enlarged, our world view itself has changed. Art restorer Dianne Modestini in a scene from The Lost Leonardo, one of two new documentaries about the Salvator Mundi (Credit: Sony Pictures Classics/Entertainment Pictures). Thanks for having me. The first is da Vinci's "The Last Supper," painted during his time in Milan, from about 1495 to 1498. Its the zenith of my career as an auctioneer. Omissions? ARCHIVAL CLIP OF ARMAND HAMMER: I guess I'm wearing a great many hats. When Leonardo was about 15, his father, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Florentine community, apprenticed him to artist Andrea del Verrocchio. Two new documentaries delve into the ongoing saga of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in a moment when true art crime stories are at their peak, writes Caryn James. Here are 20 of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. The film doesn't take a stand on the painting's attribution, but makes it clear that museums, dealers and potential buyers had millions to gain along with incalculable prestige by choosing to believe it is a true Leonardo. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. That boosted this forgotten painting into the limelight and kickstarted the. And it was a challenge. [11][12] Prices realised for just his nine paintings listed below, when adjusted for inflation to 2017, add up to over US$900million. Something like the first printing in North America, or the first time a new word was used in print. Nineteen million on the telephone. This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2021. Alison Cole, editor of The Art Newspaper, has written extensively about the painting and saw it at the National Gallery. PETERSON-WITHORN: Yeah, when I heard about that $12 million sale, I remembered that the Codex had about 360 illustrations inside of it. One of the sources says the Louvre concluded that Leonardo merely "contributed to the painting," but that bin Salman would only approve the loan if the Salvator Mundi were labelled an authentic Leonardo. I'll give everyone time. It's with you at $28 million. That these tales can work in a podcast, where no one can even see the work being described, suggests how much the allure of today's art-crime stories is in the skulduggery and mystery, not aesthetics. The paintings transferred to the dealers include a late, Alan Bond could not pay off the painting, and. Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol are the best-represented artists in the list. And then amid. TINDERA: Right. Hi, Chase. As late as the press preview of the show, there was an empty space on the wall waiting for the Salvator Mundi, but it never arrived. But just weeks before the auction happened, a devastating earthquake struck Italy and the government ended up skipping the sale. TINDERA: So back in November 1994, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates was 39 years old and pretty much at the top of his game. Everyone agreed, like Robert Simon said, that were it to go up for auction today. One sold for nearly $6 million, and the other for $5.2 million. He decided that the Codex's fair market value was $50 million. According to a CNBC report, the median net worth of someone who is 66 years old, which is Gates' age is about $266,000. Saviour for Sale opens in the US on 17 September. I wana write a poem about it. He created something he called the Codescope, which was software built to help museum-goers actually read da Vinci's backwards scrawl. CLIP OF BILL GATES: Taking Leonardo's notebook and translating them so everybody can understand the way that da Vinci thought a little better than before is very important. The first question we're asking, but we're going to ask it again is, What are we actually looking at? If it's a first edition of Moby Dick, that's a great thing to have. And to put into perspective, how much less art sold for 40 years ago, the sale of the Codex was the fifth-highest price for any piece of art sold at auction ever. So that was kind of the basic first principle. TINDERA: In his appraisal Simon selected five comparable works all from the Renaissance era. The sale generated a sustained 20 minutes of tense telephone bidding as the auctioneer Jussi Pylkknen juggled rival suitors before a packed crowd of excited onlookers in the salesroom. The Virgin and Child with St Anne by Leonardo da Vinci. In the end, the picture was placed in Christies postwar and contemporary evening sale, wedged between lots of work by Cy Twombly, John Currin, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The image of Christ as The Saviour of the World was billed as The Last da Vinci at Christie's 2017 auction, where it sold for a record $450 million (342 million) to a proxy for bin Salman (yes, that bin Salman, whom the CIA found responsible for ordering the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi). Additional audio credits: AP, CBS, GatesNotes-The Blog of Bill Gates. If all we do is adjust the $30.8 million that Gates paid for it for inflation, that gets us to somewhere around $50 million today. He had an exceedingly inquisitive mind and made strenuous efforts to become erudite in languages, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, and history, among other subjects. But we ended up contacting others who we thought might know the work well, too. In this room, inon the telephone rather, at $28 million. It is believed to have been compiled between 1506 and 1510. I'm going to show it all over the world.. Price excludes sales commission and other costs. PETERSON-WITHORN: And in fact, that fall he had just appeared atop our Forbes 400 ranking of the richest Americans, with an estimated net worth of $9.35 billion. SIMON: The Codex is something that for most of the year, let's say you have to keep it under lock and key and out of the light. Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper. There are Leonardo's drawings of the head and bust of Leda; a famous drawing was done in 1506 by Raphael; a red chalk drawing which may have been done by an assistant to Leonardo; a picture by Bugiardini which was based upon Leonardo's original cartoon (done in 1504); another copy probably by Francesco Melzi and based on Leonardo's second cartoon As a master artist, Leonardo maintained an extensive workshop in Milan, employing apprentices and students. In 2011, the National Gallery included it in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. Bouviers mark-up led to Rybolovlevs criminal complaint in a Mongasque court, alleging a scheme for overcharging him. The painting was sold in November 2017,[1][2] through the auction house Christie's in New York City. During his second period in Florence (1500-1508), he painted his most famous work, the Mona Lisa (ca. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. The ensuing war left the clay model a heap of ruins. He currently resides in Vinci, Italy. Leonardo grew up on his fathers familys estate, where he was treated as a legitimate son and received the usual elementary education of that day: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Privately resold for ca. It stayed with the Earl of Leicesters estate until 1980, when it finally went up for auction. The painting, which dates to around 1500, was lost to history for more than 200 years, was damaged and badly restored, and was sold and resold as a minor work, probably by a Leonardo acolyte.. There's also something called primacy, which is being the first. But one tries to lay out in a rational way, why one has a higher value than the other, why one has a lesser market appeal, and then try from that to come up with a single value. The Virgin and Child with St Anne was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1510. On Sunday, May 29, a man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a cake at the Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci's legendary painting at Louvre, Paris. Rybolovlevs spokesman, Brian Cattell, told the Wall Street Journal the family hoped the sale will finally bring to an end a very painful chapter. Two years later, some colourful characters entered the game. TINDERA: Simon also included another work by da Vinci: a sheet of studies including sketches of a child embracing a lamb. A Leonardo, even one as dulled as this, could prove an amusing conversation piece. Mona Lisa is not only Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting but the entire world's most famous painting. ", Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold by Christie's in 2017 for a record-breaking $450 million (Credit: Photo by Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images for Christie's Auction House). St John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci. Previewing the lot last month, Christies described the painting of Christ holding a crystal orb in his left hand and raising his right in benediction as the biggest discovery of the 21st century. Also of note is the decorative ceiling painting (1498) he made for the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. On June 11, 2017, Ms. Gund revealed that she intended to use the proceeds from the sale of the painting for a specific purpose: to create a fund that supports criminal justice reform and seeks to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. The piece is sold.. TINDERA: That's Darren Winston. It was first unveiled to the public at the National Gallery in London in 2011. That included footing the bill for not only the Codex he purchased for the $5 million in 1980, but also the tens of millions of dollars spent creating his own art museum in Los Angeles. Love film and TV? Therell never be another painting that I shall sell for more than this painting tonight.. It is Oil on wood and measures 168 x 130 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.). Alan Wintermute, a senior specialist in old master paintings at Christies in London, called it the holy grail of old masters.
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