Salvator Mundi, (Saviour of the World), painting sold for €382M.

“Salvator Mundi” de Léonard de Vinci, le tableau le plus cher jamais vendu aux enchères.

Léonardo de Vinci work of art the dearest ever sold at auction.

Un portrait de Jésus-Christ peint par Léonard de Vinci, intitulé “Salvator Mundi”, a été vendu mercredi pour une somme record de 450,3 millions de dollars (382 millions d’euros).

This portrait of Jesus Christ by Léonard de Vinci, “Salvator Mundi” was sold on Wednesday 15 November for a record sum of 382 million euros.

Le tableau \"Salvator Mundi\", exposé le 24 octobre 2017 à Londres (Royaume-Uni). 
Le tableau “Salvator Mundi”, exposé le 24 octobre 2017 à Londres (Royaume-Uni).  (PETER NICHOLLS / REUTERS)

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Le record est pulvérisé : un tableau du peintre italien Léonard de Vinci a été adjugé, mercredi 15 novembre, 450,3 millions de dollars (381,8 millions d’euros), lors d’enchères chez Christie’s, à New York (Etats-Unis). Cette vente fait de l’œuvre le tableau le plus cher du monde jamais vendu aux enchères.

Smashing all previous records, this painting was sold at Christie’s in New York, USA for $450.3M.

Cette peinture à l’huile sur panneau de noyer, qui mesure 65 cm sur 45 cm, est intitulée Salvator Mundi (“sauveur du monde”). Le portrait restauré, vieux de plus de cinq siècles, a dans un premier temps fait partie de la collection privée du roi d’Angleterre Charles 1er, qui a régné de 1625 à 1649. Il a ensuite été vendu aux enchères en 1763 avant de disparaître jusqu’en 1900, laps de temps au cours duquel on a repeint le visage et les cheveux de Jésus, selon une pratique de l’époque alors “assez courante” selon Alan Wintermute, spécialiste des maîtres de la Renaissance chez Christie’s.

This painting, oil on dipped canvass, which measures 63 x 45 cms, is entitled Salvator Mundi (“saviour of the world”) The restored portrait, over five centuries old, was originally owned, as part of a private collection, by Charles 1st, King of England, who reigned from 1625 to 1649 (24 years). Then it was sold at auction in 1763 before it disappeared until 1900, during this period the face and hair were repainted, in line with the “style” of the time, according to Alan Wintermute, spécialist of the masters of the Renaissance at Christie’s.

Vendu par Sotheby’s, principal concurrent de Christie’s, à un collecteur américain pour 45 livres (alors 126 dollars ou 107 euros) en 1958, le tableau, considéré alors comme une copie, a été revendu en 2005 à un consortium de marchands américains. Ce dernier a alors entamé un processus de restauration et, après quelque six années de recherche, le tableau a été identifié comme étant le chef-d’œuvre, datant de 1500, du maître italien. Il a été présenté lors d’une exposition à la National Gallery de Londres en 2011.

Sold by Sotheby’s, Christie’s main competitor, to an American collector for £45 (about $126 or €107) in 1958, the painting , assumed to be a copy, was resold in 2005 to an American business consortium. These dealers embarked on a restoration process, and after six years of research the painting was identified as a masterpiece, dating to 1500, of the Italian master. It went on exhibition in 2011 in London.   

Cette peinture était jusqu’ici la propriété du milliardaire russe Dmitri Rybolovlev, oligarque exilé qui préside le club de football de l’AS Monaco. Il l’aurait acquise pour 127,5 millions de dollars auprès du marchand d’art suisse Yves Bouvier, qui l’avait lui-même achetée peu de temps avant pour 80 millions de dollars.

This painting, up to now was owned by Russian billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev, the exiled oligarch, who runs Monaco football club. He acquired it for $127.5M from Swiss art merchant Yves Bouvier, who himself bought it a short time before that for $80M

Opinion: Does it look like a masterpiece? Hard to tell. Maybe in it’s presence it would appear immense. It appears to be a feminine Jesus wearing a woman’s dress.

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