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The World's Priciest Painting May Be a Leonardo Da Vinci
News 18The world’s most expensive painting, the “Salvator Mundi”, maybe the work of Leonardo da Vinci after all, with several media reports contradicting doubts raised in a French documentary. “The Savior for Sale”, a documentary by filmmaker Antoine Vitkine due to run on French TV this week, claims the Saudis withheld the painting from a 2019 exhibition at The Louvre after its experts concluded it was produced by da Vinci’s workshop and that the master only “contributed” to it. The New York Times also reported that version and said the results of the analysis were kept secret because of a dispute over how the painting would be displayed in the Louvre exhibition, with the Saudis reportedly insisting that it be hung next to the Mona Lisa. The museum’s conservators were “strongly opposed” to placing it alongside the Mona Lisa, said Rykner, fearing it would cause too many security problems to have the two most famous paintings side-by-side.
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