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November 16 2017 - 12:37PM Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for $US450 million, sets record as most expensive ever
Robin Pogrebin and Scott Reyburn
Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, considered either the most important old master work to be
auctioned in a generation or a damaged painting hyped by savvy marketing, sold on Wednesday night
for $US450.3 million ($592 million)with fees, a record for any work of art sold at auction.
It far surpassed the sale of Picasso's Women of Algiers, which fetched $US179.4 million at Christie's in May 2015.
