Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
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Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#2Why the $0.3M?
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#3I think the buyer probably had a net worth at least ≥ $4.5 billion (I wouldn't spend more than 10% of my wealth on a single painting.) According to https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/ there are only ~380 persons that would qualify. Any one knows who is the buyer?
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#4Why the $0.3M?
I didn't see a breakdown in the article, but it could have to do with the fees and or monetary conversion.
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#5According to another source from BBC, the final bid for the work was $400m, with fees bringing the full price up to $450.3m. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42000696
What's interesting from the BBC article is the image "The painting has been cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right" doesn't even look like the same person?
Another anecdote - In 1958 it was sold at auction in London for $60. By then the painting was generally reckoned to be the work of a follower of Leonardo and not the work of Leonardo himself.
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#6TL;DR - I'm not saying it isn't real, but I'm not saying it's fake either; http://ualrpublicradio.org/post/100-million-leonardo-da-vinc...
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#7According to another source from BBC, the final bid for the work was $400m, with fees bringing the full price up to $450.3m. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42000696 What's interesting from the BBC article is the image "The painting has been cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right" doesn't even look like the same person? Another anecdote - In 1958 it was sold at auction in L…
50.3 million dollars in fees....
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#8I wonder when the world is going to have a conversation that amassing the kind of wealth this would require, to spend a (small?) portion on a painting, is absurd.
I'd like to get insight into the minds of the people e.g. Gates, Murdoch et al that are so driven by profits and wealth to the detriment of so many others.
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#9I think the buyer probably had a net worth at least ≥ $4.5 billion (I wouldn't spend more than 10% of my wealth on a single painting.) According to https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/ there are only ~380 persons that would qualify. Any one knows who is the buyer?
doesn't have to be an individual.
Re: Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records
#10Fascinating to watch Rybolovlev move money in the open like this with the help of the art market apparatus. What a time to be alive.
If you're not keeping track this was almost double the price expected for a da Vinci of questioned provenance sold by the fertilizer magnate who bought Donald Trump's Palm Beach mansion for double the estimated price and then never lived in it.