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'''Salvator Mundi''' is a painting of [[Jesus Christ]] by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], which is the most expensive painting ever sold at a public auction (for $450.3 million on Nov. 15, 2017, by Christie's in [[New York City]]).
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'''Salvator Mundi''' is a painting of [[Jesus Christ]] by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], which is the most expensive painting ever sold at a public auction (for $450.3 million on Nov. 15, 2017, by Christie's in [[New York City]]). It was sold in an intense 19-minute public bidding war.
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This far exceeded the sale price of Pablo Picasso’s ''Women of Algiers'' (Version O) (1955), which fetched $179 million earlier in 2017.
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The successful anonymous bidder on Salvator Mundi was later disclosed to be the Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who planned to display it in Riyadh.<ref>https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/most-expensive-artworks-ever-sold-at-auction-1234736898/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-c-1500450-3-million-christies-new-york-november-2017/</ref>
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== References ==
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