Freeman's was founded in 1805, and is actually America's oldest auction house. (According to contemporary sources, Leonardo was commissioned to create three more pictures, but these works have since disappeared or were never done.) I think it's the greatest acquisition I ever made. Many factors seem to have converged to create this flourishing moment for true art crime. 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.. 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. TINDERA: Hypothetically though, Simon explained that our logic of taking one drawing and reviewing the sale price of that to extrapolate what a whole manuscript filled with drawings might be worth was something he considered in his own appraisal. Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman the epitome of a true Renaissance man. 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. They arrive in the wake of Ben Lewis's high-profile 2019 book, The Last Leonardo, and dozens of articles. He also considered a painting done by Renaissance artist Pontormo, which was purchased by the Jay Paul Getty Museum for $35.2 million at Christie's in 1989. French President Emmanuel Macron pictured in 2018 with the owner of the Leonardo, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (Credit: Photo by Bandar Algaloud/Getty Images), "The Louvre is supported by the government, the ministry of culture and ultimately Macron," Cole tells BBC Culture. 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. In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874. 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 CBS CLIP, CONNIE CHUNG: You know, you may be the richest man in America, or at least the second-richest man in America. 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. In cases like these, that's why we have to turn to the experts who know more about this than us. But it does have two anonymous sources, their faces hidden on camera, identified as high-ranking French government officials who had access to the Louvre's studies of the painting and to the French-Saudi negotiations. His drawing of the Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) has also become a cultural icon. The Virgin and Child with St Anne by Leonardo da Vinci. Among Leonardos pupils at this time were Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Ambrogio de Predis, Bernardino de Conti, Francesco Napoletano, Andrea Solari, Marco dOggiono, and Salai. DARREN WINSTON: Once we've decided that the book is worth looking at for its condition, for its provenance. But, it makes up only about 0.1% of Gates' $134 billion fortune, which we estimated for the Forbes 400 this year. The first is da Vinci's "The Last Supper," painted during his time in Milan, from about 1495 to 1498. In the days leading up the the sale, Christies produced a video of celebrities viewing the work, among them Leonardo DiCaprio and Patti Smith. I'm an art dealer in New York. Hence, every phenomenon perceived became an object of knowledge, and saper vedere (knowing how to see) became the great theme of his studies. Author of. WINSTON: So once we've deduced that it's a first edition because it meets all of this criteria. According to the Christie's auction catalogue for the 1994 sale, the Codex was described as being in good and stable condition. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [4] In constant dollars, the highest price paid before 1987 was by the National Gallery of Art when in February 1967 they acquired Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci for around $5 million ($41million in 2021 dollars) from the Princely Family of Liechtenstein. Most experts today agree the painting was probably produced by assistants in Leonardo's workshop, where he added some finishing touches a common practice. SIMON: My feeling was that the Codex was quite a bit more valuable than any single drawing would be. 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. Love film and TV? I'm going to show it all over the world.. It depicts the dramatic scene described in several closely connected moments in the Gospels, including Matthew 26: . 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.". The general attitude toward art crime, he says, used to be shrugged off as "it's billionaires spending money, crooking each other", but today there is a realisation that "no, you can't loot that country's entire cultural heritage". He was described in our Forbes 400 issue of the magazine that year as both a hard worker and brutally candid.. TINDERA: That's right. 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. At that time this was the 4th highest (unadjusted) price at auction and 10th highest price on this list. $50 million through Sothebys in 1997. Here are 20 of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Fifty-five hundred to start. But as it turned out, he also had his own personal connection to the Codex. An attempt to psychoanalyze the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi.' Tim Schneider , November 17, 2017 The scene at Christie's New York on November 15. PETERSON-WITHORN: Armand placed the winning bid and paid about $5.6 million for the Codex, which was less than the roughly $10 million that it was reported experts thought it might sell for. ROBERT SIMON: My name is Robert Simon. The Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci. Pablo Picasso "Garon la pipe" (1905): $142.7 million 8. To him, it was just his collection of scientific observations and illustrations and writings, mostly focused on the study of water. In fact, it was also noted in the Codexs 1994 auction catalogue written by late da Vinci scholar Carlo Pedretti, that the Mona Lisa is, "indeed a visual synthesis of Leonardo's scientific knowledge as summed up in the Codex.". So Gates buying Leonardo da Vinci's notebook is the equivalent of a typical 66-year-old splurging ona new iPad. 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. We should note here that we did reach out to Christie's, as well as Bill Gates to ask if they had any comments on the value of the Codex today. And Lewis has a new eight-episode podcast, Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, which promises stories of "the ugliest crimes, the biggest scandals and the murky in-between." 7 | The Macklowe Collection | | Sotheby", "Sale Offers a Reason for Relief at Sotheby's", "Ming Dynasty Scroll Sells for Record $77 Million at Auction", The Collection of Eleanore and Daniel Saidenberg, Francis Bacon (19091992) Portrait of George Dyer Talking, Francis Bacon Work Sells for $70 Million at Christies Auction, "sGallery: A Gauguin and a van Gogh Change Hands", Andy Warhol's "Four Marlons" auction results, "Magritte 'Masterpiece' Sells for Record-Breaking $79.8 M. During Sotheby's Sale", "China auction sees Qi Baishi painting sell for $65m", "The buyer of 422.5 Million Qi Baishi painting revealed", "What Are The Top 10 Al-Thani Family Art Acquisitions? Self Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. The saleroom erupted in cheers and applause. The figure more than doubles the existing record for an artwork sold at auction: a $179.4 million bid for a Picasso in 2015. She tells BBC Culture, "Since then, Dianne Modestini continued to work on it. 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. He was also frequently consulted as a technical adviser in the fields of architecture, fortifications, and military matters, and he served as a hydraulic and mechanical engineer. CBS CLIP, BILL GATES: Well, that's simply based on taking the stock I own in Microsoft and doing some type of multiplication. Or is it? A major turning point came when the painting was controversially displayed as an authentic Leonardo at a 2011 exhibition at the National Gallery in London. ARCHIVAL CLIP OF ARMAND HAMMER: Another hat is my hobby for collecting art. Six-million five hundred thousand, seven million. During this period Leonardo worked on a grandiose sculptural project that seems to have been the real reason he was invited to Milan: a monumental equestrian statue in bronze to be erected in honour of Francesco Sforza, the founder of the Sforza dynasty. But, because of the imminent danger of war, the metal, ready to be poured, was used to make cannons instead, causing the project to come to a halt. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Unless new documentation surfaces (unlikely after all these centuries), or a new scientific method of authentication arrives (also tricky because the work has been so damaged), the mystery may prove eternal. At the press conference, Artnews reported, Gouzer spoke of the exceptional rarity of a work by Leonardo. 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. [8] The actual purchase price was not disclosed, because of a confidentiality agreement attached to the private sale. As everyone who does not live in utter isolation knows, a painting of Christ known as the "Salvator Mundi" ("Savior of the World") by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was. Hammer somehow convinced the courts he was increasing shareholder value. He applied his creativity to every realm in which graphic representation is used: he was a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer. What Gouzer may have meant is that buyers prepared to spend in excess of $100m on artwork exist in the modern and contemporary fields. The painting sold for $119,922,500, Picassos Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) sold at Christie's in New York for $106,482,500, Lhomme qui Marche I (1961) by Alberto Giacometti sold for 65,001,250 ($105,182,398) at Sothebys in London, Picassos Boy With a Pipe (1905) sold at Sotheby's in New York for $104,168,000, Gustav Klimts Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912)went under the hammer at Christies New York and sold for $87,936,000, Francis Bacons Triptych (1976) sold for $85.9m to oligarch Roman Abramovich, A Chinese 18th century Qianlong dynasty porcelain vase sold for 53,100,000 ($85,921,461) at Bainbridges auction house in London, Dora Maar au Chat (1941) by Pablo Picasso sold for 51,560,080 ($83,429,503) at Sotheby's in London, Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet (1890) by Vincent van Gogh sold for $82,500,000 (50,985,692) at Christies in New York, Thank you all for your bidding, said Pylkknen. The work, thought to be a 500-year-old portait of Madonna and child, is potentially worth over $150 million (100 million) if experts are able to prove its authenticity. Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional learning, until much later, when he acquired a working knowledge of it on his own. Why do bad things happen to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. The Return to Italy - the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre Museum in 1911. But we need a lot more information than that before we make our estimate. Fifty-fivefive-point-five million dollars to start it. Leonardo spent 17 years in Milan, until Ludovicos fall from power in 1499. 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. One sold for nearly $6 million, and the other for $5.2 million. TINDERA: That's Darren Winston. This means the Codex is certainly one of the world's most valuable pieces of art. 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]. So, we reached out to Martin Kemp, who is another da Vinci scholar, and an Oxford University emeritus professor. I've worked as well as an art appraiser. No one in the art world knows for sure where the painting is. Leonardo da Vincis total output in painting is really rather small; there are less than 20 surviving paintings that can be definitely attributed to him, and several of them are unfinished. Five hundred years later, the Codex is in such good condition, in part because it hasn't changed hands many times. PETERSON-WITHORN: Thanks for listening to Priceless. This stands as the most expensive painting by a living artist. But when I saw it, it didn't sit comfortably with me as an autograph Leonardo." And seeing these works enjoyed by people all over the world. 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. It next appeared at a Sotheby's in England in 1958 where it sold for 45 - about $125 at the time. The winning bidder would later be revealed to be Saudi Arabia's Prince. 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. TINDERA: On sale is a one-of-a kind Leonardo da Vinci manuscript known as the Codex Hammer. 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. Saviour for Sale opens in the US on 17 September. The artwork alone garners thousands of visitors from around the world to the famous gallery it is placed in - the . A jump to $370. So, I think we could legitimately set the floor at that price. The Christie's sale itself was a highly staged drama, beginning with a marketing video that showed not the painting but the faces of observers most are ordinary people but one of them is Leonardo DiCaprio looking reverently at the image as if they were seeing Christ himself. 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. This time, though, it sold for three times that in the battle we heard about at the beginning of the episode between Gates and the Italian bank. So of course, da Vinci never called it the Codex Leicester or the Codex Hammer. This wall painting in the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, allowed Leonardo to explore how the body communicates inner states of being. We reported that same year that Gates envied his friend Warren Buffett, because he had more time to spend reading than Gates did. The piece is sold.. His father, Ser Piero, was a Florentine notary and landlord, and his mother, Caterina, was a young peasant woman who shortly thereafter married an artisan. 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. - The world's greatest art detective, - The men who Leonardo da Vinci loved, - The detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa. With its sleek narrative and a wide range of voices from dealers to art historians to investigative journalists, The Lost Leonardo is the better of the two films, and benefits greatly from using Modestini as its main character. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. [3] The Nahmad family bought Suprematist Composition in 2008 at Sotheby's, New York, for $60,002,500 ($76million in 2021 dollars) from the heirs of Kazimir Malevich. The Louvre very much wanted to include it in its grand exhibition to celebrate Leonardo's 500th anniversary in 2019. PETERSON-WITHORN: After the auction, he told the press, I'm very happy with the price. $450 million That price more than doubled the. Record private sales are believed to include $250m for a painting by Paul Czanne and $300m for a Paul Gauguin. This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. Veiled in layers of mystery and international intrigue, the story of the Salvator Mundi is an ongoing, endlessly fascinating saga, told in two new documentaries, The Lost Leonardo and Saviour for Sale: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece?, which play out with all the drama and suspense of a detective story. The Met has since returned the coffin to Egypt. But no one thought it was still worth the $30.8 million Gates paid for it. She was universally considered to be the painter's sitter. But now the Salvator Mundi has become the poster boy for the volatile mix of money, power and geopolitics that defines the art world today. It looks interesting. And if you liked this story,sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called The Essential List. Christies had also found placing the work, despite its celebrity, hard to fathom. Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol are the best-represented artists in the list. She spent years restoring the painting, and passionately defends its authenticity in precise detail, pointing out the pentimento under Christ's thumb or a curve of his mouth that could only be Leonardo's. Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. 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. A tempera and oil mural on plaster, "The Last Supper" was created for the refectory . 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. Lady with an Ermine 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Well, as we mentioned, the most expensive painting ever sold at auction was the Salvator Mundi for $450 million. But if our maximum value isn't $4 billion, then what is it? When he was about 15, his father, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Florence community, apprenticed him to artist Andrea del Verrocchio. The case led to the resignation of Monacos then justice minister, Philippe Narmino. The Louvre and the National Gallery refused to comment for either film. Then I went to those other items that were of kind of the same rarity as works of the Renaissance that had been on the market. And then, how do we rationalize the difference in the kind of object it is? Leonardos artistic inclinations must have appeared early. On the last telephone, 18 million. DETAILS BELOW Leonardo da Vinci (born April 15, 1452) is famous for being painter. 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. Leonardo da Vincis parents were unmarried at the time of his birth near a small village named Vinci in Tuscany. But many experts on camera and elsewhere in the press think he leapt to an early conclusion. A Leonardo da Vinci painting has sold for a record-breaking $450 million this week, at Christie's auction house in New York. The source says he advised the government that "exhibiting under the Saudi conditions would be like laundering a piece that cost $450 million". Despite the excitement over the sale of the only Leonardo in private hands queues of people had formed around Rockefeller Center in New York to see the canvas many in the art world had wondered if the piece would find a buyer. ARCHIVAL CLIP OF ARMAND HAMMER: I guess I'm wearing a great many hats. CLIP OF BILL GATES: So here, you're just seeing the page exactly as it looked to da Vinci. Pierre-Auguste Renoir "Bal du moulin de la Galette" (1876): $154.7 million 6. Oil tycoon Armand Hammer bought it that year, and 14 years later, Gates bought it at another auction. ARCHIVAL CLIP-STEPHEN MASSEY, CHRISTIES: The Leonardo da Vinci Codex Hammer. At one point, a telephone bidder jumped in, pushing the price from $332m to $350m. JoinBBC Culture Film and TV Clubon Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world. As of 2023, Leonardo da Vinci's net worth is $320 million. He also worked in the next-door workshop of artist Antonio del Pollaiuolo, a sculptor, painter, engraver, and goldsmith, who frequently worked with his brother, Piero. Christie's billed the painting as an original work by Leonardo da Vinci himself. In this room, inon the telephone rather, at $28 million. As a master artist, Leonardo maintained an extensive workshop in Milan, employing apprentices and students. Thanks for having me. It would not draw more than the Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450 million. She is a captivating, elegant presence on screen, with a whispery voice and wide eyes behind signature black or red-framed glasses. There are all sorts of factors that come into play: condition, provenance. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$900 million in 2021.[3]. This is the mirror where we flip it around, and now here it is in English. Leonardo Da Vinci 1503 It was kept it at the Palace at Fontainebleau, where it remained until King Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles. And Lewis points out that as the art market has enlarged, our world view itself has changed. He currently resides in Vinci, Italy. 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. Still, it was a record-breaking event. And flipping through this copy, I have to say, I cant read a word of this. The sale of Salvator Mundi, which was painted around 1500 and presumed lost until early this century, was Rybolovlevs largest to date. Rybolovlev resold Gauguin's Otahi before 2017 for less than $50 million. Moreover, he was no doubt enticed by Duke Ludovico Sforzas brilliant court and the meaningful projects awaiting him there. He was the auctioneer at the 1994 Christie's sale. The Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci. Its the zenith of my career as an auctioneer. Leonardos parents were unmarried at the time of his birth. 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. Additional audio credits: AP, CBS, GatesNotes-The Blog of Bill Gates. Thanks for joining me. 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. 9. Amidst all these delightfully tangled histories, nothing rivals the Salvator Mundi. There is hardly a person on this planet that doesn't know about this artwork. So it doesn't really look like a notebook anymore. MASSEY: Nineteen-million five hundred thousand I'll be happy to take. On July 12, 2011, $75M was equivalent to 53M. Before this, the highest absolute price paid for a painting was 8.1 million (20.4 million in 2021 currency) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi at Christie's in London on 18 April 1985. It stayed with the Earl of Leicesters estate until 1980, when it finally went up for auction. In Verrocchios renowned workshop Leonardo received a multifaceted training that included painting and sculpture as well as the technical-mechanical arts. It's with you at $28 million. 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. Re-sold for 12m to Stavros Niarchos in 1993. A scene from Saviour for Sale, a second documentary about the Salvator Mundi, by French journalist Antoine Vitkine (Credit: Zadig Productions). (Maybe so, but in the films and other reproduced images it does have a more cloying look). Some of the most eye-opening commentary in both films isn't even about art. "And it is involved therefore in the politics around culture. Nonetheless, the exhibition went a long way toward legitimising a shaky attribution. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Leonardo da Vinci was described as having a gracious but reserved personality and an elegant bearing. PETERSON-WITHORN: Yeah, and Gates loves books. Ludovicos fall in 1499 sealed the fate of this abortive undertaking, which was perhaps the grandest concept of a monument in the 15th century. for the highest price sold. Five are traditional Chinese paintings by Qi Baishi, Wu Bin, Wang Meng and Xu Yang. 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. "I'm absolutely sure that six months down the road or a year, there's going to be some kind of new information, whether true or not, that's going to blow up everywhere in the news media," Dalsgaard says. We know quite a bit about Leonardo's life from a mini-biography by Giorgio Vasari, a Leonardo fanboy and the world's first art historian.Born a nobody, Leonardo was a charismatic and complicated man self confident and not, driven and not, distracted and not. His was the last name on the 1988 provenance list; painting came from "a private collection in Arizona". On the telephone in this room at $28 million. PETERSON-WITHORN: In the end, we decided to take the average of all the recommendations we got from our expert sources. [6] Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van Gogh. And then there's also rarity, or how rare this exact copy or version of a book or manuscript is. [13][14], Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by non-Western artists. For her part, Modestini has documented her work and the scientific studies of the painting, and published them online. 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. And that was the process. As he would throughout his life, Leonardo set boundless goals for himself; if one traces the outlines of his work for this period, or for his life as a whole, one is tempted to call it a grandiose unfinished symphony.. PETERSON-WITHORN: Two were da Vinci drawings of draperies. A Belgian banker and collector who bought it in 1939 for $18,000. That sold for $3.6 million at Sotheby's in New York in 1986. He decided that the Codex's fair market value was $50 million. Leonardo da vinci was an Artist, Scientist and Inventor.He was Born in April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. 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. Nineteen million on the telephone. 1. As a painter, Leonardo completed six works in the 17 years in Milan. 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. The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which previously had dominated the market.
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