How did a £120 painting become a £320m Leonardo … then vanish?
by Dalya Alberge from World news | The Guardian on (#5K0E9)
A film about the disputed Salvator Mundi blames the National Gallery for its role in giving credibility to the claim that it was the artist's lost work
The National Gallery is facing controversy over its role in the tangled story of how the world's most expensive painting emerged from obscurity before being sold for a staggering 320m, only to vanish again from the public eye.
The gallery exhibited the Salvator Mundi in its Leonardo da Vinci exhibition a decade ago when it was an unknown work with doubts about its attribution, restoration and ownership.
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