Why Would Anyone Pay $450M for 'Salvator Mundi'?
Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, ca. 1500. Image credit: Wikimedia.
I dedicated about 1,000 words to trying to answer that question for artnet News last week. Suffice it to say that I don't think that the new owner was primarily interested in buying a painting...
Fun fact: A brief excerpt from the piece was used to introduce the madness around the Salvator Mundi sale in the December 1, 2017 issue of The Week.