Spooky New $200 Million Da Vinci Now Said to Be Off the Market

Spooky New $200 Million Da Vinci Now Said to Be Off the Market

Despite previous accounts of a $200 million asking price, a recently authenticated Leonardo da Vinci painting, which depicts Christ holding a crystal globe in one hand and giving a blessing with the other, is now said to be off the market. As was already announced at the end of June, "Salvator Mundi" will be shown as part of "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter of the Court of Milan" at the National Gallery starting November 9. Since the museum has strict rules about not exhibiting art that is for sale, the announcement that the work is off the market seems to be specifically intended to permit its inclusion in the upcoming show.

"There were some discussions with a museum concerning the possible acquisition of the painting, but it hasn't been offered for many months," New York-based private dealer Robert Simon, a spokesperson for the consortium of dealers who own the painting — and reportedly himself one of the owners — told Bloomberg. "I've assured the National Gallery that the painting isn't on the market and that there are no plans to sell it after the exhibition." This statement ensures that the museum will be able to show the work, since the National Gallery has a strict policy forbidding the exhibition of works that are for sale: "Any painting for sale is removed from display and returned to the owner, following a standard procedure for returning a loan picture," the museum explained to Bloomberg.

Simon declined to reveal the painting's price when it was on the market, but according to several reports citing anonymous sources in the art world, potential buyers were quoted the figure of $200 million and the owners rejected an offer of $100 million. If the price of $200 million were achieved, it would make "Salvator Mundi" the most expensive work of art ever, beating the sale of Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" for $140 million by David Geffen (which was reported by the New York Times in 2006, though never confirmed), and Ronald S. Lauder's $135 million purchase of Gustav Klimt's "Adele Blochbauer I" that same year.

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38084/spooky-new-200-million-da-vinci-now-said-to-be-off-the-market/

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#1 - Why is he wearing a dress?
and
#2 - He looks stoned.

The fundies are going to FREAK.

After all, Jesus was all into sunshine you know.

Now, as to the dress, well, Jesus was high in that photo, so "no homo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell-Stokes_recorder

Seriously, does anyone else see the resemblance?

:P

but then again, he loves everyone when he's high, dresses in drag, gets his crystal ball out, and tells people their fortunes.

But the scary thing is when he gets paranoid that his dad is going to catch him getting his high drag queen fortuneteller look on.

What about just putting that money into creating new jobs.

:mad:

Spending $200 Million on a picture of Christ in a dress, stoned, with a crystal ball and the look on the faces of people who will now see this story and are fundie Christians: Fucking priceless.

Now that is Priceless!!

...his eyes aren't blue.