A Leonardo da Vinci portrayal that sole for a record-breaking $450 million final month might have sole to a little-known Saudi king with a genuine estate happening though meagre ties to a art world.
Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud was suggested late Wednesday as a probable poser customer of da Vinci’s 500-year-old “Salvator Mundi” mural of Christ, according to a New York Times.
Bader, who has business ties to his country’s recycling and rubbish supervision industry, is a counterpart and tighten fan of Saudi Arabia’s 32-year-old climax prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The dual group went to King Saud University in Riyadh around a same time, and Bader’s form in Saudi Arabia has swelled given King Salman tasked Prince Mohammed with using most of a supervision on his behalf.
Hours before Prince Bader’s probable squeeze became public, a new Emirati museum called a Louvre Abu Dhabi fueled conjecture about a portrayal when it tweeted that it designed to arrangement a da Vinci — though demurred on either it had bought it or merely designed to steal it. Christie’s also declined to endorse a buyer.
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