After nearly 20 minutes of nail-biting bidding on Wednesday night, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundi, shattered the world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. Including fees, the 500-year-old rare masterpiece sold for $450.3 million.
Some questioned the authenticity of the painting as truly Da Vinci but with a price tag that far surpassed initial estimates the concern now seems irrelevant.
Before the sale, Vice News Tonight went to Christie’s for a private viewing of Salvator Mundi with contemporary Brazilian artist Vik Muniz.
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Just all for money it says in the bible Christ ain’t white but with “bronze skin”
"Shit I forgot to ask for a receipt…how am I gonna return it now."
so leoanrdo sucked at painting
Yet I can’t even afford a sandwich from subway… 😕
An object like this painting should not be in the possession of a private person, it should be displayed in a museum for the world to witness.
This Brazilian dude must now feel like a turd….well proven this was a fake. Shows the value of experts!!!
Da vinci code
Because that's a picture of the Antichrist.
A rasengan
Mellenials: Who TF is Leonardo Da Vinci?!!!
I seriously doubt that painting is by DaVinci. Too rigid and too washed-out. And since it's not signed and has an unclear provenance, I'm curious why it's being accepted by most people as being something it's probably not.
THIS PIC LOOK LIKE SATAN!
there'''s something really dark and fucked up about this painting.
Lool pssh we have far better painters in the world today and this Worths over 400mill????? And the modern day painters work ain't quarter this amount? overrated, BIAS AND racketeering 😂😂
Rumor has it, Jesus bought it
What's the point of buying a painting from a GUY who were born 1452 years after the PAINTED-ONE !
How accuring can be the painting ? [No offense to Jesus, but this representation is ugly asf]
This just shows you just how ridiculously wealthy some people are. They have so much "extra" money that they need to invest it in an art piece like this so they won't have to pay taxes on it, which would help others via social programs.
Good investment. In the future this will be selling for double or triple the price. Art will never go out of style and people who appreciate art will pay a lot of money for rare art pieces.
not even painted by Da Vinci lols
These pretentious fools don't even understand why Da Vinci is so famous. He was a creator. He was a genius. He did everything. language, literacy, science, math, engineering, architecture, art, music, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany and history. He isn't famous because he was good at painting hair. He is famous because he was what we all wish we could be. Good at everything.
If only Leonardo knew how big his legacy would be
Let me guess: Da Vinci had the courage to picture Jesus Christ with two fingers up?
you people don't know religion at all
im born every February 24 1975 1104 pm California New Jerusalem time Adam
i was Prince of Egypt i know weather events all things im not telling you people my brother's Muhammad will come from 600 A.D. to 1400 A.D. you will worship God not the sons or false idols my mother either
you read Koran youll see he imagine him self died Jesus of Nazareth i fought king David army king Solomon trying kill king David for he new mary thought me his baby brother
king of Saudi Arabia great grandfather way back was Muhammad family he asked him to find that God child he did the day that painting was made their both happy menno Simons was happy because he got silver for painting
all my sin judist devil worshippers like in Miami
for having Simon out wedlock
that is Lord Menno Simons my brother 1400 German he sent Jonah fighting Muhammad son wife pray for child he came killing Muhammad from his mother whom it's God send us that how we roll Crist im alpha omega see my picture Crist child Adam Joseph Moses Jesus of Bethlehem im not from Nazareth that my brother black hair he drove king herm crazy remember me Daniel nail to cross
The Da Vinci does not convince me that it is authentic, maybe it's the hand.