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. But one key difference between my version and the one Bill Gates owns is that while my version is bound in the middle, like any typical hardcover book, every page of the original Codex Leicester is held in glass to make it easier to view all the pages. He had just gotten married to Melinda Gates on New Year's Day of that year and was in the middle of building his multi-million-dollar mega mansion, Xanadu 2.0. However, weeks after the grand opening of his museum, where he planned to showcase the Codex and other art he had collected over the years, Hammer died at the age of 92. TINDERA: That average of every expert opinion worked out to about $130 million. But we ended up contacting others who we thought might know the work well, too. This Leonardo da Vinci's portrait paintings are of Ginevra de' Benci, who was a rather popular Florentine woman. 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. PETERSON-WITHORN: Two were da Vinci drawings of draperies. When he was about 15, his father, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Florence community, apprenticed him to artist Andrea del Verrocchio. July 8, 2021. The Met has since returned the coffin to Egypt. It depicts the dramatic scene described in several closely connected moments in the Gospels, including Matthew 26: . PETERSON-WITHORN: After the auction, he told the press, I'm very happy with the price. It is Oil on wood and measures 168 x 130 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.). And it was, you know, a thrilling project to be involved with. At 18 million in this room. Saviour for Sale opens in the US on 17 September. 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. I cannot say if he or she will want to be public.. In The Lost Leonardo, a grinning Bouvier says his exploits are just business as usual: "you buy low and you sell high." Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$900 million in 2021.[3]. And so, you've got the painting itself is you know, much more of a rare object. This painting depicted St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary, and the infant Jesus. Whereas Picasso and Warhol became wealthy men, van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 French francs (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch. TINDERA: That's Gates talking for a video posted on his blog a few years ago, around the time that he exhibited the Codex Leicester in some museums in Europe. 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. He currently resides in Vinci, Italy. It came close. Oprah Winfrey had bought the painting in November 2006 at Christie's for nearly $88 million. Finding a new one is rarer than finding a new planet, he said. A Leonardo, even one as dulled as this, could prove an amusing conversation piece. His father, Ser Piero, was a Florentine notary and landlord, and his mother, Caterina, was a young peasant woman who shortly thereafter married an artisan. And then amid. There's also something called primacy, which is being the first. And if Gates himself had the Codex appraised since he bought it. With closing fees from the auction house, it came out to $30.8 million. He decided that the Codex's fair market value was $50 million. (Swiss authorities investigated him for defrauding Rybolovlev over several artworks, but this year closed the case without charging him.) [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]. As a painter, Leonardo completed six works in the 17 years in Milan. As late as the press preview of the show, there was an empty space on the wall waiting for the Salvator Mundi, but it never arrived. So it doesn't really look like a notebook anymore. Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has sold at Christie's in New York for $450.3m . This stands as the most expensive painting by a living artist. He also considered a painting done by Renaissance artist Pontormo, which was purchased by the Jay Paul Getty Museum for $35.2 million at Christie's in 1989. At $28 million. SIMON: What it does is make you realize how important the fact that the Codex has survived intact is. 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. For example, on June 25, 2019, the American hedge fund manager J. Tomilson Hill bought a recently rediscovered Judith and Holofernes (1607) attributed to Caravaggio, two days before it would have been auctioned in Toulouse. The Virgin and Child with St Anne was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1510. It then becomes a first edition of Moby Dick. She tells BBC Culture, "Since then, Dianne Modestini continued to work on it. TINDERA: That's right. Son of Daniel (conductor & cellist) and Eleanore Saidenberg who were Picasso's New York dealers from 1955 to 1973. 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. One of my hats I wearI'm a capitalist. This episode was reported by Michela Tindera, produced by Michela Tindera and Jonathan Palmer, with additional research by Sue Radlauer. CLIP OF BILL GATES: So here, you're just seeing the page exactly as it looked to da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper. Leonardo devoted 12 yearswith interruptionsto this task. The current record price is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c.1500). Since the museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. If one drawing sold for $12 million, that would mean that he could sell off this whole book clipped to pieces and earn something like $4 billion. And that was the process. Christies sells long-lost Salvator Mundi, artwork billed as biggest discovery of the 21st century, for $400m plus auction house premium. Most experts today agree the painting was probably produced by assistants in Leonardo's workshop, where he added some finishing touches a common practice. 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." The first is da Vinci's "The Last Supper," painted during his time in Milan, from about 1495 to 1498. Before this, the highest absolute price paid for a painting was 8.1 million (20.4 million in 2021 currency) paid by the J. Paul Getty Museum for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi at Christie's in London on 18 April 1985. The Louvre and the National Gallery refused to comment for either film. But now the Salvator Mundi has become the poster boy for the volatile mix of money, power and geopolitics that defines the art world today. But many experts on camera and elsewhere in the press think he leapt to an early conclusion. In 1493 the clay model of the horse was put on public display on the occasion of the marriage of Emperor Maximilian to Bianca Maria Sforza, and preparations were made to cast the colossal figure, which was to be 16 feet (5 metres) high. There are Leonardo's drawings of the head and bust of Leda; a famous drawing was done in 1506 by Raphael; a red chalk drawing which may have been done by an assistant to Leonardo; a picture by Bugiardini which was based upon Leonardo's original cartoon (done in 1504); another copy probably by Francesco Melzi and based on Leonardo's second cartoon There are all sorts of factors that come into play: condition, provenance. Is it even a Leonardo at all? As he would throughout his life, Leonardo set boundless goals for himself; if one traces the outlines of his work for this period, or for his life as a whole, one is tempted to call it a grandiose unfinished symphony.. 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. For her part, Modestini has documented her work and the scientific studies of the painting, and published them online. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. That sold for $3.6 million at Sotheby's in New York in 1986. [6] Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van Gogh. It looks interesting. He said that he would guess that if the Codex were to go up for auction again, the auction estimate for the item might be $150 million. So, you know, it's something I've sort of been following for, you know, a good part of my life. 9. But Christie's declined to comment, and a spokesperson for Gates never responded to our questions. Leonardo is sometimes credited as the inventor of the tank, helicopter, parachute, and flying machine, among other vehicles and devices, but later scholarship has disputed such claims. This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. Like we did earlier in this episode, he considered the price that it sold for in 1980. No one in the art world knows for sure where the painting is. He needed to do that because in order to pay the inheritance taxes on a previous Earl of Leicester, who died in 1976, they needed to sell off some stuff. The saleroom erupted in cheers and applause. Yves Bouvier, a Swiss art dealer, bought the painting from the New York dealers for $83 million, reportedly on behalf of his client, a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev, though this is disputed by Mr Bouvier. Various vandals have tried to harm da Vinci's famed masterpiece, and 1956 was a particularly bad year. Mona Lisa. Hi, Chase. Leonardo da Vincis parents were unmarried at the time of his birth near a small village named Vinci in Tuscany. Leonardo spent 17 years in Milan, until Ludovicos fall from power in 1499. 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. But one tries to lay out in a rational way, why one has a higher value than the other, why one has a lesser market appeal, and then try from that to come up with a single value. They bought it from an auction in Louisiana for just over $1,000. There is so much information in the public sphere that everyone can have the illusion of being an insider. The painting sold for $119,922,500, Picassos Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) sold at Christie's in New York for $106,482,500, Lhomme qui Marche I (1961) by Alberto Giacometti sold for 65,001,250 ($105,182,398) at Sothebys in London, Picassos Boy With a Pipe (1905) sold at Sotheby's in New York for $104,168,000, Gustav Klimts Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912)went under the hammer at Christies New York and sold for $87,936,000, Francis Bacons Triptych (1976) sold for $85.9m to oligarch Roman Abramovich, A Chinese 18th century Qianlong dynasty porcelain vase sold for 53,100,000 ($85,921,461) at Bainbridges auction house in London, Dora Maar au Chat (1941) by Pablo Picasso sold for 51,560,080 ($83,429,503) at Sotheby's in London, Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet (1890) by Vincent van Gogh sold for $82,500,000 (50,985,692) at Christies in New York, Thank you all for your bidding, said Pylkknen. At the time bin Salman was trying to burnish Saudi Arabia's image by loosening a few restrictions. 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. Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII of France more than 500 years ago, has sold at Christies in New York for $450.3m, including auction house premium, shattering the world record for any work of art sold at auction. If all we do is adjust the $30.8 million that Gates paid for it for inflation, that gets us to somewhere around $50 million today. 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. Nonetheless, the exhibition went a long way toward legitimising a shaky attribution. The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which previously had dominated the market. The original one is now located at Muse du Louvre, Paris. SIMON: And if you look at the illuminated manuscripts that are from, you know, missiles, and you know, these are Renaissance manuscripts, many of them have been broken apart. An exceptional case is graffiti artist David Choe, who accepted payment in shares for painting graffiti art in the headquarters of a fledgling Facebook. The Netflix series This Is a Robbery delves into the 1990 theft of masterworks including a Rembrandt from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Later in 2002, Thomson donated his private collection, including the Rubens, to the. "As long as this painting is hidden from the world and the future and fate of this painting is unknown, it's going to be clouded in a realm of mystery and the world will be ready to read anything new. And my background is as an art historian. The film doesn't take a stand on the painting's attribution, but makes it clear that museums, dealers and potential buyers had millions to gain along with incalculable prestige by choosing to believe it is a true Leonardo. The Lost Leonardo is now playing in the US and opens in the UK on 10 September. It is believed to have been compiled between 1506 and 1510. 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. a 2011 exhibition at the National Gallery in London, Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World, Kim Kardashian was photographed next to it. In particular, Qi Baishi's Twelve Landscape Screens was sold for $140.8 million in 2017. One of the most famous paintings in the world, the Last Supper was commissioned by Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan and Leonardo's patron during his first stay in that city, for the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Trained in Florence as a painter and sculptor in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488), Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions. 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. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$50.8million in 2021). But it does have two anonymous sources, their faces hidden on camera, identified as high-ranking French government officials who had access to the Louvre's studies of the painting and to the French-Saudi negotiations. "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. When it sold in 1994, it was also expected to sell for $10 million, but ended up selling for three times that. "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. He's the head of the Books, Maps and Manuscripts department at Freeman's Auction House in Philadelphia. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. TINDERA: That's Darren Winston. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)", "Claude Monet (18401926), Odalisque couche aux magnolias", "Basquiat Tops Phillips Contemporary Sale at $85 Million", "Titian masterpiece Diana and Callisto saved for nation", "No. Both sold at Sotheby's in Monaco on the same date in 1989. He also pulled together a list of artwork that he found it to be similar to. The buyer was anonymous, but the New York Times soon revealed him to be acting for bin Salman, a discovery that catapulted the painting into the geopolitical realm. Leonardos parents were unmarried at the time of his birth. 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 She was universally considered to be the painter's sitter. PETERSON-WITHORN: Yeah, and Gates loves books. Art restorer Dianne Modestini in a scene from The Lost Leonardo, one of two new documentaries about the Salvator Mundi (Credit: Sony Pictures Classics/Entertainment Pictures). [note 1] Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the painting was sold. TINDERA: Right. TINDERA: Simon also included another work by da Vinci: a sheet of studies including sketches of a child embracing a lamb. 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.. Whoever cut it up would be pilloried forever. The world's most expensive painting to sell at auction is Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450.3 million on November 15, 2017 at Christie's.Shattering previous records and exceeding auction expectations, the sale underscored market demand for the artist's rare auction appearances, and the competition among collectors to own a work of such caliber and distinction. In this episode of Priceless, staff writer Michela Tindera and deputy wealth editor Chase Peterson-Withorn explain how Forbes determines the value of a one-of-a-kind Leonardo da Vinci manuscript that Bill Gates purchased in 1994. I'm an art dealer in New York. This possibly-Leonardo treasure's route to fame began when it surfaced at an obscure New Orleans auction house in 2005 and was bought by two New York dealers for a measly $1,175. At that time this was the 4th highest (unadjusted) price at auction and 10th highest price on this list. TINDERA: So back in November 1994, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates was 39 years old and pretty much at the top of his game. So I thought, "What if Gates cut up all the drawings into individual little works of art and sold them off that way? Leonardo never married, but he had many close relationships with other artists and intellectuals as well as with his assistants. Here are 20 of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. 1503-1519). 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. 1. 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. Love film and TV? Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional learning, until much later, when he acquired a working knowledge of it on his own. A Malevich Suprematist Composition sold for $85.8 million at Christies, breaking the record for a work of Russian art. The US art critic Jerry Saltz rails in The Lost Leonardo that "it's not even a good painting", much less a great Leonardo, while true believers gush that seeing it in person is a transcendent experience. And then there's also rarity, or how rare this exact copy or version of a book or manuscript is. We felt that offering this painting within the context of our postwar and contemporary evening sale is a testament to the enduring relevance of this picture.. 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. All episodes of the Art Bust podcast are available now. Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci. Soon, the painting was on its way to Christie's. Many factors seem to have converged to create this flourishing moment for true art crime. DARREN WINSTON: Once we've decided that the book is worth looking at for its condition, for its provenance. Joining me for this is Chase Peterson-Withorn, an editor on the Forbes wealth team. Re-sold for 12m to Stavros Niarchos in 1993. Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol are the best-represented artists in the list. Something like the first printing in North America, or the first time a new word was used in print. In New York last night, he said he had never doubted the piece would break records. TINDERA: That's right. Apparently, Hammer had made a habit of buying things with Occidental Petroleum money. 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. Leonardos gracious but reserved personality and elegant bearing were well-received in court circles. The Louvre very much wanted to include it in its grand exhibition to celebrate Leonardo's 500th anniversary in 2019. The Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci. [11][12] Prices realised for just his nine paintings listed below, when adjusted for inflation to 2017, add up to over US$900million. 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