Billed as "the last Leonardo" remaining in private hands, Christie's tonight sold, as part of its post-war and contemporary evening sale in New York, the Renaissance master's Salvator Mundi. The 500-year-old painting carried an estimate around $100m and a third-party guarantee, and sold after a dramatic and drawn-out battle between three phone bidders for $400m at the hammer ($450,312,500 with fees), to gasps and applause.
Read the full sale report by Judd Tully, and our previous coverage below:
Leonardo marketed as a rock star ahead of Salvator Mundi sale
Christie's releases condition report on Leonardo's Salvator Mundi
From £45 to $100m: Leonardo heads to New York
Leonardo frenzy in London as crowds throng to see Salvator Mundi
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