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By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
Leonardo da Vinci‘s "Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World)," c. 1500
We are excited that this week's world news headlines were dominated by religious art. On Wednesday night, Christie's auctioned Leonardo da Vinci‘s painting "Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World)" for over $450 million. The sale set a world-record. The painting, created around 1500, depicts Jesus raising his right hand in blessing and holding a crystal ball in his left hand that represents the world. On that same night, DaVinci's influence was also center-stage in a work of contemporary art. Andy Warhol‘s mural-sized "Sixty Last Suppers" (1986) sold for $61 million. The silk-screened canvas consists of sixty black-and-white reproductions of Da Vinci's original 15 feet by 29 feet mural. Clearly, Leonardo da Vinci was the star of this week.
Detail of two of Andy Warhol's "Sixty The Last Suppers" (1986)
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Sixty Last Suppers, painted in 1986. 116 x 393 in. This lot was offered in Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 November 2017 at Christie’s in New York
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