TINDERA: In his appraisal Simon selected five comparable works all from the Renaissance era. 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. So, I think we could legitimately set the floor at that price. WINSTON: So once we've deduced that it's a first edition because it meets all of this criteria. Amidst all these delightfully tangled histories, nothing rivals the Salvator Mundi. In 2011, the National Gallery included it in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. This episode was reported by Michela Tindera, produced by Michela Tindera and Jonathan Palmer, with additional research by Sue Radlauer. 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. Last Supper (c. 1495-98) Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com. Whoever cut it up would be pilloried forever. But we ended up contacting others who we thought might know the work well, too. The 16th-century writer Giorgio Vasari indicated that Leonardo cared little for money but was very generous toward his friends and assistants. He was known to be fastidious in personal care, keeping a beard neat and trim in later age, and to dress in colorful clothing in styles that dismissed current customs. He applied his creativity to every realm in which graphic representation is used: he was a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer. But Christie's declined to comment, and a spokesperson for Gates never responded to our questions. Hence, every phenomenon perceived became an object of knowledge, and saper vedere (knowing how to see) became the great theme of his studies. PETERSON-WITHORN: Art is one of the toughest things we value for our lists, because the value is just so subjective, and you really don't know what something will sell for until it hits the auction block. Updates? Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$900 million in 2021.[3]. "When we chose the title," Andreas Dalsgaard, a producer and a writer of The Lost Leonardo, tells BBC Culture, "the inspiration was partly that the painting is lost right now and the truth is lost, but it was also inspired by movies like the Indiana Jones movies that are full of treasures and treasure hunts.". Thanks for having me. Two new documentaries delve into the ongoing saga of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in a moment when true art crime stories are at their peak, writes Caryn James. Leonardo da Vinci not only developed his skill in drawing, painting and sculpting during his apprenticeship, but through others working in and around the studio, he picked up knowledge in such diverse fields as mechanics, carpentry, metallurgy, architectural drafting and chemistry. Five hundred years later, the Codex is in such good condition, in part because it hasn't changed hands many times. DARREN WINSTON: Once we've decided that the book is worth looking at for its condition, for its provenance. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. And if you liked this story,sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called The Essential List. Within two days he sold it to Rybolovlev for $127.5 million. Leonardo da Vinci. Biography Of Leonardo da Vinci: How Old Is Leonardo da Vinci | Net Worth | People ProfilesPeople Profiles is a channel that dives deep into the lives of some. Pablo Picasso "Garon la pipe" (1905): $142.7 million 8. In 1993, Simon was hired by the trustees of the Armand Hammer Museum to do an appraisal of the Codex back when it was known as the Codex Hammer. The work of Leonardo is just as influential to the art that is being created today as it was in the 15th and 16th centuries, he said. The Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci. And then there's also rarity, or how rare this exact copy or version of a book or manuscript is. The two documentaries arrive at a time when films, podcasts and pop culture itself seem fascinated by art crimes, mysteries and forgeries. But he went even beyond that. In cases like these, that's why we have to turn to the experts who know more about this than us. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to ourFacebookpage or message us onTwitter. Five are traditional Chinese paintings by Qi Baishi, Wu Bin, Wang Meng and Xu Yang. I wana write a poem about it. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Kenneth Griffin acquired it in 2004 from Wynn. SIMON: He spent much more time as a writer, a scientist, a draftsman than he did as a painter. That's because da Vinci wrote it backwards, which is what he did for much of what he wrote. But there would, there are people in the world that would probably do that. During his second period in Florence (1500-1508), he painted his most famous work, the Mona Lisa (ca. Son of Daniel (conductor & cellist) and Eleanore Saidenberg who were Picasso's New York dealers from 1955 to 1973. It then disappeared again until it was bought at a small U.S. auction house in 2005. CBS CLIP, BILL GATES: Well, that's simply based on taking the stock I own in Microsoft and doing some type of multiplication. According to the provenance in the auction catalogue, a few Italian artists own the Codex after da Vinci's death, including a painter named Giuseppe Ghezzi, who apparently sold it in 1717 to Thomas Coke, a man who eventually became England's Earl of Leicester. It is Oil on wood and measures 168 x 130 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.). What was Leonardo da Vincis family like? (crowd laughs) Good start. TINDERA: So back in November 1994, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates was 39 years old and pretty much at the top of his game. 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 Four hundred million selling here at Christies. In 1482 Leonardo moved to Milan to work in the service of the citys dukea surprising step when one realizes that the 30-year-old artist had just received his first substantial commissions from his native city of Florence: the unfinished panel painting Adoration of the Magi for the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto and an altar painting for the St. Bernard Chapel in the Palazzo della Signoria, which was never begun. Early Life: Verrocchio's Pupil. Our 1994 story said Hammer was a master at litigation, and the aggrieved shareholders had to settle to keep building costs at $60 million. Read about our approach to external linking. Both sold at Sotheby's in Monaco on the same date in 1989. And it was a challenge. TINDERA: Simon also included another work by da Vinci: a sheet of studies including sketches of a child embracing a lamb. There was a bit of an odd snag with the purchase, and Forbes reported on it in 1994. So it's difficult to get much better than someone who has actually appraised an item. A Belgian banker and collector who bought it in 1939 for $18,000. [6] Though the Louvre Museum had turned down the opportunity to purchase it for 100 million,[7] the painting was estimated to sell for $110 to $170 million. July 8, 2021. We reported that same year that Gates envied his friend Warren Buffett, because he had more time to spend reading than Gates did. At the same time, Bouvier was negotiating and eventually succeeded to buy the painting for $112 million from Ursula Ucicky, widow of, Some fear existed, that Portrait of Dr. Gachet had been cremated with the owner in 1996, but Gachet's portrait was privately resold to. The role of most of these associates is unclear, leading to the question of Leonardos so-called apocryphal works, on which the master collaborated with his assistants. A tempera and oil mural on plaster, "The Last Supper" was created for the refectory . The winning bidder would later be revealed to be Saudi Arabia's Prince. So I thought, "What if Gates cut up all the drawings into individual little works of art and sold them off that way? The paintings transferred to the dealers include a late, Alan Bond could not pay off the painting, and. Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million, Within weeks after a private viewing in Vienna in September 2012, Rybolovlev agreed to pay $183.8 million via his dealer Bouvier. So first, we looked to experts in the world of rare books and manuscripts to learn about the qualities that make a book valuable. MASSEY: Nineteen-million five hundred thousand I'll be happy to take. He also pulled together a list of artwork that he found it to be similar to. It suffers from not having Modestini or some other compelling central figure. Qi Baishi "Twelve Landscape Screens" (1925): $148.7 million 7. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and engineer who is best known for his paintings, notably the Mona Lisa (c. 150319) and the Last Supper (149598). The final winning bid? Price excludes sales commission and other costs. Leonardo grew up on his fathers familys estate, where he was treated as a legitimate son and received the usual elementary education of that day: reading, writing, and arithmetic. And it was, you know, a thrilling project to be involved with. Before Rybolovlev, Salvator Mundi had been owned by a consortium of dealers including Alexander Parish, who had picked it up for $10,000 at an estate sale in the US in 2005, and had had it restored and authenticated. His curiosity and insatiable hunger for knowledge never left him. When asked whether Salvator Mundis involvement in the Rybolovlev-Bouvier case might overshadow its sale, Christies postwar and contemporary chairman, Loc Gouzer, who secured the work with a $100m guarantee, said: We cannot comment about sellers, but it has every passport, every visa.. He also did not apply himself to higher mathematicsadvanced geometry and arithmeticuntil he was 30 years old, when he began to study it with diligent tenacity. The current record price is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c.1500). Self Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. 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. Still, it was a record-breaking event. TINDERA: The Italian government had reportedly been expected to participate in the auction. Probably, they knew there was room before the end of the competition., They wanted to get the job done quicker, but it still took a long time.. In the days leading up the the sale, Christies produced a video of celebrities viewing the work, among them Leonardo DiCaprio and Patti Smith. It stayed with the Earl of Leicesters estate until 1980, when it finally went up for auction. "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. a 2011 exhibition at the National Gallery in London, Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, Kim Kardashian was photographed next to it. 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. Since the painting first arrived at the Louvre in 1815, "Mona Lisa" has received plenty of love letters and flowers from admirers. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 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. The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held at museums, for viewing by patrons. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. The abrupt $20m and $30m jumps in price were indeed unusual, Cerutti confirmed. But we need a lot more information than that before we make our estimate. 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. The disciples, devastated by Christ stating one of them would cause his death, convey their feelings dramatically through their body language. At one point, Pylkknen remarked: Historic moment, well wait as the the bidding went back and forth, pausing at just over $200m as it rose to break the auction record. 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. (Swiss authorities investigated him for defrauding Rybolovlev over several artworks, but this year closed the case without charging him.) PETERSON-WITHORN: The person who ended up winning the auction was Armand Hammer, the 82-year-old multimillionaire chairman of oil and gas giant Occidental Petroleum. 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. The writings in his notebooks suggest that he may have been a vegetarian, and there is also some speculation that he may have been gay. 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. The Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold At Auctions 10. He created something he called the Codescope, which was software built to help museum-goers actually read da Vinci's backwards scrawl. This means the Codex is certainly one of the world's most valuable pieces of art. Some of the most eye-opening commentary in both films isn't even about art. 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. The Burlington House Cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci. Joining me for this is Chase Peterson-Withorn, an editor on the Forbes wealth team. Highly esteemed, he was constantly kept busy as a painter and sculptor and as a designer of court festivals. A jump to $400m. He decided that the Codex's fair market value was $50 million. 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. He Died in May 2, 1519 in Amboise, Kingdom of France.His Famous works includes Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man Style/Period: High Renaissance Biography. Saviour for Sale opens in the US on 17 September. It's on the last telephone at $28 million. Antique Heliogravure on wove paper after t.. 620: 1893 Leonardo da Vinci Bust of an Old Man in Roman Costume print signed Est: $ 500 - $ 700 View sold prices Feb. 05, 2023 KCM Galleries Cape Coral, FL, US Using monthly averages gives slightly different numbers, most significantly for paintings sold early or late in a year with significant inflation. At one point, a telephone bidder jumped in, pushing the price from $332m to $350m. (or simply Leonardo) (Leonardo diser Piero ser da Vinci) (Italian, 1452-1519). [15] Not listed here in this list is Chinese painter Wang Shaofei's The High Sun, which was appraised for $74 million in 2017.[16]. There is so much information in the public sphere that everyone can have the illusion of being an insider. One of my hats I wearI'm a capitalist. The Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci. Knowingly or not? And that's the number we're using to value it. 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. TINDERA: Robert Simon is perhaps best known in the art world for having a very close connection to a painting that is synonymous with money, power and controversy: the Salvator Mundi. For those who don't know it, it's a painting of Christ that sold at a Christie's auction in 2017 for $450 million, which is by far the most expensive work of art that's ever sold at auction. Is it even a Leonardo at all? People who often would never get a chance to visit the great museums of the world. Life of Leonardo da Vinci, a Short Biography 1. And that was the process. They reflected the importance of the painting and that some of the bidders were conscious that the price would go higher than their bids. And flipping through this copy, I have to say, I cant read a word of this. Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. How many Leonardo da Vinci paintings are there? 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 so, you've got the painting itself is you know, much more of a rare object. TINDERA: Robert pointed out one other unique distinction. Inside besides da Vinci's writings, there are also about 360 drawings and diagrams throughout the manuscript. 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: These went into the mix. It then becomes a first edition of Moby Dick. There is hardly a person on this planet that doesn't know about this artwork. TINDERA: Right. The Lost Leonardo is now playing in the US and opens in the UK on 10 September. St John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci. It's with you at $28 million. Fifty-fivefive-point-five million dollars to start it. He was described in our Forbes 400 issue of the magazine that year as both a hard worker and brutally candid.. Months earlier, he had appeared on the cover of Forbes, and he was a member of our very first Forbes 400 ranking. SIMON: My feeling was that the Codex was quite a bit more valuable than any single drawing would be. So Gates sort of went out and bought the ultimate book. The artwork alone garners thousands of visitors from around the world to the famous gallery it is placed in - the . MASSEY: At 16 million, 17 million. Any more? I expected to pay much more. That sold for $3.6 million at Sotheby's in New York in 1986. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$50.8million in 2021). It is believed to have been compiled between 1506 and 1510. A jump to $370. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime and that, filtered by historical criticism, has remained undimmed to the present day rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behaviour. The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of 24.75 million (74.1 million in 2021 currency). 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? The first is da Vinci's "The Last Supper," painted during his time in Milan, from about 1495 to 1498. 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. for the highest price sold. Not everyone is a fan. 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. A Malevich Suprematist Composition sold for $85.8 million at Christies, breaking the record for a work of Russian art. At the height of the auction, as many of six bidders were in play. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). We asked Robert, if the Codex if it went up for sale again, could it compete with the Mundi's price? TINDERA: That's Darren Winston. The rest are owned by museums around the world. JoinBBC Culture Film and TV Clubon Facebook, a community for cinephiles all over the world. 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. He's the head of the Books, Maps and Manuscripts department at Freeman's Auction House in Philadelphia. 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. Later in 2002, Thomson donated his private collection, including the Rubens, to the. In New York last night, he said he had never doubted the piece would break records. Various vandals have tried to harm da Vinci's famed masterpiece, and 1956 was a particularly bad year. The only non-Western modern artwork listed is that of the Chinese-French painter Zao Wouki's oil painting Juin-Octobre 1985, which was sold for $65 million in 2018. Also of note is the decorative ceiling painting (1498) he made for the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. Most art world observers thought the Salvator Mundi would be the centrepiece of a new museum or art centre in the region, but the painting has not been glimpsed in public since. 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. "A Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92 Million at Sotheby's Auction", "Christie's 'Secret Weapon' in Rockefeller's 'Sale of the Century' | Auctions News | THE VALUE | Art News", "Claude Monet (18401926), Nymphas en fleur", Greatest German Renaissance Madonna sold by prince, Vincent van Gogh (18531890) Laboureur dans un champ, U.K. Buys Titian Diana Painting for 50 Million Pounds, Titian deal paves way for next acquisition, "Mark Rothko: No. 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. But when I saw it, it didn't sit comfortably with me as an autograph Leonardo." PETERSON-WITHORN: Thanks for listening to Priceless. 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. PETERSON-WITHORN: And the fifth was a drawing by Michelangelo called The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist, which also sold to the Getty Museum in 1993, for $6.3 million. MICHELA TINDERA: So its 1994, and were listening to an auction in a salesroom at Christie's in Manhattan. A Leonardo, even one as dulled as this, could prove an amusing conversation piece. Leonardos artistic inclinations must have appeared early. 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. The painting was sold in November 2017,[1][2] through the auction house Christie's in New York City. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. TINDERA: That's right. The saleroom erupted in cheers and applause. They bought it from an auction in Louisiana for just over $1,000. However, we should probably note that it seems unlikely that as the owner of the Codex, Gates would actually do this. Quiz: Ancient Illustrations Showing Us the Way, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci, Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Humanities LibreTexts - Leonardo da Vinci, Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, University of California Museum of Paleontology - Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Web Gallery of Art - Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Leonardo da Vinci - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), Art and accomplishment: Leonardo as artist-scientist, Art and accomplishment: Painting and drawing. In the film, the art historian Frank Zllner, who has compiled a catalogue raisonn of Leonardo's paintings, wryly calls the Salvator Mundi "a masterpiece by Dianne Modestini," who made it "more Leonardesque than Leonardo had done." Thanks for joining me. And we're going to show you how we narrowed that range to settle on one number. SIMON: What it does is make you realize how important the fact that the Codex has survived intact is. PETERSON-WITHORN: So I thought this was super fascinating that you could actually consider a work of art as something that could not only hold value and appreciate in value, but could also be a business, generating income for its owner over time. Christies sells long-lost Salvator Mundi, artwork billed as biggest discovery of the 21st century, for $400m plus auction house premium. 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. Everyone agreed, like Robert Simon said, that were it to go up for auction today. He used his superb intellect, unusual powers of observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish. On June 11, 2017, Ms. Gund revealed that she intended to use the proceeds from the sale of the painting for a specific purpose: to create a fund that supports criminal justice reform and seeks to reduce mass incarceration in the United States.
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