Painting bought by Saudi Crown Prince for $ 450 million found to be fake

[Mithridates]

i wont pay more then $1000 for original Mona Lisa

well they won't sell it to you.

guys is that true MBS offered several millions to kim kardashian??

 

[SubWater]

well they won't sell it to you.

guys is that true MBS offered several millions to kim kardashian??

lol
What does Kim offered him in response?

 

[Mithridates]

lol
What does Kim offered him in response?

what she is good at that.
however i'm not sure if it's true or just a rumor.

 

[Hack-Hook]

I dont think there is any painting worth 450 million, could be $45 million

thats un saleable no matter what . please talk about things which can be sale .i can say 1bn$ you can buy effil tower .

iranians mashallah

Press TV. Enough said.

All is bs no painting on earth is 450mn$

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-...-buyer-of-record-breaking-da-vinci-1512674099

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...ost-leonardo-may-be-worth-just-1-5m-1.3905641

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...udi-Crown-Prince-bought-masterpiece-350m.html

indeed pressTV

 

[xyxmt]

well they won't sell it to you.

guys is that true MBS offered several millions to kim kardashian??

I wont even CAD 400,
guess me and MBS has totally different taste

 

[zartosht]

I wont even CAD 400,
guess me and MBS has totally different taste

apparently he has higher standards...

since you would pay $1000 dollars for a billion dollar painting.... using that metric kim K is worth around 400 million to you?? poor mbs only payed only a couple mil allegedly

though on a serious note this is beyond hilarious. these arab "princes" are always trying to one up each other. one buys a golden dildo, some other prince buys a golden toilet to show off with. Some other prince gets a billion dollar yacht. And MBS though he had checkmated them all with a priceless and once in a lifetime opportunity to put your hands on a da vinci painting...….. probably showing it off to his cousins LOL....

the custodians of islams holiest sites... truly examples that all poor muslims should look up to.

 

[Timur]

i wont pay more then $1000 for original Mona Lisa

I have no value for that I would just say for the wooden thing and paper it's worth about 50 cent because it is old..

But I would never hang it out you can't pray in that room..

kim K is worth around 400 million to you

I think paying me 400 million for that thing is not worth it

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-...-buyer-of-record-breaking-da-vinci-1512674099

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...ost-leonardo-may-be-worth-just-1-5m-1.3905641

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...udi-Crown-Prince-bought-masterpiece-350m.html

indeed pressTV

None of them say it was a fake.

 

[Hack-Hook]

None of them say it was a fake.

The display in Abu Dhabi was unexpectedly halted last year, and its loan to Paris in the autumn will not happen, Lewis told the Hay literary festival.

“My inside sources at the Louvre, various sources, tell me that not many curators think this picture is an autograph Leonardo da Vinci. If they did exhibit it… they would want to exhibit it as ‘workshop’. If that’s the case it will be very unlikely that it will be shown, because the owner can’t possibly lend it… The value will go down to somewhere north of $1.5m”, or about €1.35 million.

 

[El Sidd]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-...-buyer-of-record-breaking-da-vinci-1512674099

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/...ost-leonardo-may-be-worth-just-1-5m-1.3905641

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...udi-Crown-Prince-bought-masterpiece-350m.html

indeed pressTV

is it your money dude?

 

[Hack-Hook]

is it your money dude?

So it's ok to throw it away. A question from where he got that money.

 

[Humble Analyst]

Why not Pakistanis loot these Arabs by selling them fake antiques and trinkets.
Not even any Pakistani fashion designer focus on Saudi Arabia and dubai even..
Even have khaddi and other but not proper fashion houses..
Even chechenya takes over the clothing of Arab fashion. And we cannot even capture that maket..
We Pakistanis have become real lazy nation.
Only talk and no action.. Just listen from us the this and that and when it comes to perform nothing..

They only buy from Europe

i wont pay more then $1000 for original Mona Lisa

You are a better person than me

 

[Turingsage]

Press TV. Enough said.

Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman spent £354million on 'fake' Leonardo Da Vinci
The Salvator Mundi was purchased by a buyer acting on behalf of The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, it is believed
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Milo Boyd

• 12:32, 27 MAY 2019
• UPDATED11:19, 28 MAY 2019

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The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is thought to have splashed out $450million (£354m) on what could be a fake Leonardo da Vinci painting.

In November 2017 The Salvator Mundi was sold as one of fewer than 20 known works of the Italian master.

It was later revealed that the buyer was Prince Badr bin Abdullah al Saud, a minor Saudi royal thought to be acting on behalf of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Ben Lewis, an art historian who has written a book about the painting, suggested the royal suddenly upped his offer from $370million to $400million because he thought the Qatari royal family was outbidding him.

The Salvator Mundi is believed to date back to around 1500 (Image: REUTERS)

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is thought to have been behind the purchase(Image: HARISH TYAGI/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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It would later come to light that Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian was actually the one providing competition.

Worse was to come for the royal family.

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Since it was included in a major da Vinci exhibition at London's National Gallery in 2011, questions have been raised about the painting's origins.

The damage left by over-painting and restoration attempts meant the painting was hard to analyse.

Rumours began to swirl about its provenance in the months before the auction, leading the two billionaire bidders to raise the price to a historical high in the race to get their hands on a genuine da Vinci.

The sale was a record-breaking deal and has raised eyebrows around the world (Image: REUTERS)
Many art historians remained unconvinced however, arguing the lack of warping around the orb in Christ's hand was uncharacteristic of an artist of da Vinci's callibre.

When the Louvre Abu Dhabi cancelled plans to display the painting just two weeks before the exhibition was due to start, many took that as an admission that the painting was not the work of the master, but his pupil.

Now its owners have been dealt another blow.

Curators at the Louvre in Paris have privately decided to label the painting "from the workshop" of da Vinci.

Unprecedented attention was paid to the painting when it went up for sale at Christies (Image: Getty)
The move would massively devalue the world's most expensive painting, with experts suggesting it would fetch about $1.5 million (£1.18m) if auctioned again.

Mr Lewis told a crowd at the Hay Festival: "My inside sources at the Louvre, various sources, tell me that not many Louvre curators think this is an autograph [real] Leonardo da Vinci and if they did exhibit it, they really want to exhibit it as 'workshop'.

"So it is very unlikely it will be shown because the owner of this picture cannot possibly lend it to the Louvre Paris and see it exhibited as ‘Leonardo workshop’ - its value will go down to somewhere north of $1.5m.

"If a picture cannot show it's face, that is really damning for the art world. It is almost like it has become the Saudi's latest political prisoner."

The painting is said to be currently in a storage facility in Switzerland.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/saudi-arabias-mohammed-bin-salman-16208376

 

[925boy]

i wont pay more then $1000 for original Mona Lisa

That says nothing about the Mona Lisa but says alot about you.

 

[El Sidd]

So it's ok to throw it away. A question from where he got that money.

why even care