The staggering price paid for the last Leonardo da Vinci painting in private hands has sparked a fevered hunt for the buyer — but so far the new owner’s identity remains as inscrutable as the smile on one of the artist’s other canvases.
Christie’s, the auction house that sold “Salvator Mundi” in New York on Wednesday, has remained silent about who paid $450m for the 500-year-old work — a price that set a world auction record.
With the pool of possible buyers limited to billionaires and a very few institutions, some in the art world are trying to narrow it down to a region or nationality.
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