Leonardo at auction: how did a £45 painting end up selling for $450m?

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ set the highest price ever for an artwork sold at auction when it took $400m ($450m with premium) at Christie’s New York last night.

Unusually, Salvator Mundi was offered as “a special lot” in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art…

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