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Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" sold for a record $450 million with fees. Auctioneer: $400 million is the bid, and the piece is sold. Narrator: But auctioneers at Christie's aren't just ...

Eager fans lined up outside Christie’s Rockefeller Center headquarters on Tuesday to view “Salvator Mundi.” Hundreds of people have viewed the painting at the venue, including Leonardo DiCaprio.

Six years after that exhibition, the Salvator Mundi became the world’s most expensive painting when it was bought at Christie’s in New York for $450.3 million by a ‘Saudi Prince’.

One of the many weird things about the sale of the Salvator Mundi for $450 million (£337 million) was the repeated claim of Christie’s that it was ‘the last Leonardo painting left in private hands’.

Christie’s, the British auction house, set the record for a painting sold in auction when it sold the last known work by Leonardo da Vinci held in private hands, Salvator Mundi.

Salvator Mundi, a $450 million painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, has not been seen publicly since it sold at Christie's in 2017, the year it became the most expensive artwork ever auction.

Since its sale for a record US$450 million, the whereabouts of the Salvator Mundi ... Since its record-setting sale at Christie's in 2017, the painting, in which Jesus Christ is depicted emerging ...