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Yes, It’s a Leonardo. Stop Calling It a Fake.

November 17, 2017 by Marion Maneker

What’s it the kids say on the internet? Oh, right. James Tarmy demolishes Jerry Saltz and the rest of the Leonardo authenticity doubters with his tour d’horizon of Old Master dealers.

Whatever one thinks about the sale of the Salvator Mundi, there’s a remarkable consensus on the work’s attribution that should have long ago banished the phrase “questions of authenticity” from any report that wants to be taken seriously:

“All of the most relevant people believe it’s by Leonardo, so the rather extensive criticism that goes ‘I don’t know anything about old masters, but I don’t think it’s by Leonardo’ shouldn’t ever have gone to print,” says British old masters dealer Charles Beddington. “Yes, it’s a picture that needed to be extensively restored. But the fact that it’s unanimously accepted as a Leonardo shows it’s in good enough condition that there weren’t questions of authenticity.”

Is the $450 Million Leonardo da Vinci Painting a Fake? (Bloomberg)

Is the Leonardo Record a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy for Salvator Mundi’s Fame?

November 16, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Integral to Christie’s pitch for the Leonardo Salvator Mundi‘s appeal is that the painting will anchor a future institution the way the Mona Lisa is the main attraction at Paris’s Louvre museum. In the days before the sale, a chorus of frustrated voices grew louder expressing their doubts about the painting’s restoration and even questioning the scholarly consensus that emerged before the 2011 Leonardo show at the UK’s National Gallery. Central to some of those objections are whether the painting is of sufficient quality to justify the price paid (It’s worth pausing here to remind everyone that the art market doesn’t measure quality, it measures demand and distribution) or whether the damage the painting has suffered over so many years has compromised the work.

In either case, we might want to look back at the Mona Lisa and its rise to fame for clues about the record setting $450m purchase. In other words, is the painting worth it? Continue Reading

This Is What the Buyer of the Leonardo Is Paying For

November 10, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Did you ever imagine you would see Leonardo di Caprio in front of a Leonardo da Vinci? You can in this video Christie’s made filming viewers of Salvator Mundi as it has been on display this week in New York. After lines around the block in San Francisco and London, jaded New Yorkers flocked to Rockefeller center. The awed crowds are a big part of the marketing for Christie’s; if a buyer emerges beyond the guarantor, their confidence and motivation will have been bolstered by these crowds.

Here Christie’s captures the emotions of viewers like Patti Smith, di Caprio, art advisor Anthony Grant and others in their crypt-like gallery.

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